The Year I Stopped Being His

On the very day her husband, Garrison, won the Nobel Prize in Medicine, Sloane received a devastating diagnosis: she had cancer. In search of solace—or perhaps answers—she flew thousands of miles to Switzerland. Yet, instead of comfort, she was met with a cruel sight: her husband locked in an intimate embrace with her own adopted sister.When Sloane confronted them, Garrison dismissed her coldly, saying, "I don't have time to play around with you." Even her son turned against her, asking, "Mom, can you please not disturb us?" At that moment, Sloane finally accepted the painful truth. After five years of marriage, she had always been nothing more than an "outsider" in this family.Without another word, she left behind a divorce agreement and turned away—not toward home, but toward the Antarctic Forbidden Area, where she joined a secret scientific expedition.Later, however, her body succumbed and fell into a frozen sleep in the cold laboratory. Yet every night, a man would sneak in, hold her close, and press kisses upon her, whispering tenderly in her ear: "Darling, I have developed the most advanced cancer drug. Please wake up."