CHAPTER 1  Regrets She felt as if she were drowning, sinking toward the bottom of some frigid pond, her pain the leaden weight dragging her down. She didn’t have the strength to swim toward the surface, to break free from her misery. What she wanted was to hit bottom. Because then, maybe the pain would stop. Only four days earlier, Harper Mitchell thought she had it all: newly engaged to the love of her life, their passionate romance coming as something of a shock to someone who’d been completely focused, laser-like, on her career. As the successful CEO of a