The Doctor and the Dealbreaker

Dr. Elias Hart left Bellhaven a decade ago with a duffel bag and a plan. He came back a billionaire with a surgical center that will shut down the hospital June Okafor has spent her whole career holding together. June was his resident. Then his best friend. Then the woman he asked to marry him, the night before he disappeared. She kept the ring. She kept the grudge. Now they're stuck sharing a trauma bay, a boardroom, and a town that remembers everything. When a hurricane cuts the power and the roads close, Elias and June run a trauma bay on generators and learn what the last ten years actually cost — and what it would cost to try again. He can buy anything. He can't buy back the night he left. But he can hand her the thing he built to destroy her, and then he can stay.