If I Die, Will You Miss Me?

At twenty-eight, Lena Bennett is diagnosed with terminal-stage rare bone cancer. Her doctor tells her that if she agrees to have her left leg amputated and continues treatment, she may be able to live for another year. Before entering the operating room, Lena sends one final message to Damian Cole, her husband of three years, asking whether he wants her to go through with the amputation. But once again, instead of receiving even a single word of concern, she gets a one-million-dollar electronic transfer. Three years earlier, on their wedding night, Lena had asked Damian to lend her five hundred thousand dollars for her father, who was suffering from bone cancer. From that moment on, Damian became convinced that the woman he had married against his family’s wishes was nothing more than a gold digger. When Lena’s father died, Damian transferred fifty thousand dollars to her. When she miscarried their child, he responded with money again. After she was diagnosed with bone cancer, Lena sent him ninety-seven voice messages. In the end, Damian transferred one million dollars—but never listened to a single one all the way through. The misunderstanding that destroyed their marriage was fu…