When She Woke Up, I Was Nothing

For five years, Sereia Valez loved a man who never chose her. She wasn’t his girlfriend. She wasn’t his future. Just the woman he kept—hidden, controlled, and always just outside the life he built in public. Then the accident takes everything. When Sereia wakes up, her memories are intact—her name, her past, her life. All of it. Except him. Adrian Virell. The man who once held every version of her in his hands now stands in front of her like a stranger… and for the first time, she doesn’t feel anything at all. No attachment. No hesitation. No reason to stay. As Sereia begins to rebuild her life without the weight of who she used to be, she finds something she didn’t even realize she had lost—ease, clarity, and a quiet sense of self that doesn’t revolve around anyone else. Especially not him. But Adrian isn’t a man who accepts loss. Not in business. Not in control. And definitely not when it comes to her. As he moves to pull her back into his world—slowly, deliberately—Sereia is faced with a truth no one seems willing to give her: If forgetting him made her feel like this… why did she ever love him at all? And when fragments of the past begin to surface, one thing becomes clear— She didn’t lose everything in that accident. She lost the part of herself that chose him. Now the man who never claimed her is willing to burn everything just to be chosen. But this time? Sereia Valez isn’t waiting.