98 epsBound by Fire
Returning from eight bloody years on the imperial frontier, the decorated prince discovered his secret lover bound to a wooden execution pyre.
She gets the diagnosis first: cancer, no time left. Her boyfriend just landed a Hollywood role, so she stages a betrayal with his best friend, letting him catch them together, and he walks out believing she chose someone else. She never tells him she's pregnant.
Eight years later he's a superstar and she's still standing, raising their daughter while keeping the truth buried. When he comes back into her orbit, the lie she built to free him now threatens everything she protected, and she has to decide whether the man who left without looking back deserves the daughter he never knew about.
