The Years Didn't Change Us

At eight, Xavier Godwin met a lost girl, Cheryl, in a sanatorium. Gentle and gifted at healing, she restored his crippled legs and lit the dark corners of his childhood. Sixteen years later Xavier, now CEO of Godwin Group, is consumed by one promise: find Cheryl and make her his wife. Exhaustion and failure follow every search—until Holly Saul, forced into a substitute marriage, collides with his life as a contract bride. The sterile terms of the arrangement crack under shared rooms, old memories and rising obsessions. What starts as convenience becomes a long-delayed reunion that forces buried truths into the open, testing vows, identity and the limits of fate kept silent for sixteen years.