Jane, a woman who once vowed never to love again, lives a quiet life between her job, her books, and the care of her widowed mother. Surrounded by friends like Hazel and Lily, she tells herself she is content?until Edward, a reserved new colleague, enters her office and unsettles her entire world.
What begins as fleeting glances and polite exchanges soon grows into an unspoken passion. Every word from Edward, every smile, every trace of his cologne takes root in Jane's imagination. Against her will, she finds herself dreaming of him, needing him, shaping her days around his presence.
Fate tightens its grip when Jane is assigned as Edward's personal assistant. They travel together, share lunches, late nights at the office, and whispered conversations. Edward is kind, gentle, yet curiously distant?never crossing the invisible line, never revealing more than fragments of himself. A sealed box he entrusts to Jane, to be opened only if he disappears, becomes a symbol of their fragile bond and of secrets she cannot touch.
The truth crashes down like a storm: Edward is married, a father, and gravely ill, living with a heart condition that shadows his every moment. His affection was real, but his life was divided, and his silence was his cowardice. When he vanishes, leaving Jane torn between opening the trust box and clinging to denial, tragedy strikes?an accident that leaves her fate uncertain, and Edward haunted by the love he could neither claim nor release.
