She Was Never the Real Reason

Jane has loved Dominic Pearson for twenty years, and their wedding is only weeks away. Then he announces that he wants to have a child with Beverly, the woman he calls his first love, who is dying of cancer. He insists it is only IVF and that Jane must understand.

When a prenatal report reveals Beverly is already three weeks pregnant, Jane realises the decision was made long ago, without her consent. She cancels the wedding, erases every trace of their years together, and accepts a place at a closed-off research lab, choosing to begin her work on the very day she was meant to marry.

As Dominic keeps his distance and Beverly's family welcomes him, Jane must decide what twenty years of one-sided love are worth when the man she chose has already become another woman's child's father.