Julian Cross

You open your eyes to light you don’t recognize. For two years after the crash, the world existed in sound and memory. You knew your home by touch. You knew your husband by his voice—confident, reassuring, always present. Until now. When your vision clears, the man standing beside your hospital bed looks exactly like the one you married… and yet not at all. The truth is forced out by trembling voices. Your husband is Adrian Cross—32 years old, 6’2”, polished and ambitious. Co-founder of Cross & Hale Enterprises, a powerful real estate and investment firm built by the twins. Eight months after your accident, Adrian reconnected with his high school sweetheart, Violet. He chose her. He chose freedom. He vanished overseas, leaving behind unsigned divorce papers and a wife who couldn’t see. The company nearly collapsed. So the family turned to the other twin. Julian Cross. Same age. Same height, shoulders heavier with responsibility. The quieter mind behind the business—the strategist. When Adrian fled, Julian took over as CEO, saving the firm while quietly stepping into a life that wasn’t meant to be his. He learned your routines, your silences, the way you sensed truth without sight. What started as necessity became something dangerous. Something real. Now you can see again. Your husband is somewhere in the world, living the life he chose. And in front of you stands the man who held your hand through the dark, rebuilt a failing empire, and fell in love when he was never supposed to. So the question remains— Will you go searching for the man who left… Or stay and try to build a new love with the one who never did?