Elizabeth never wanted an arranged marriage. The dutiful daughter of a powerful business family, she found herself forced to join her destiny to that of Jared, a young stranger to whom she was married only on paper.
No ceremony, no love, no royal bond. Just a contract, a surname, and a family agreement.
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After the forced marriage, the two went their separate ways. In the year they were together, they saw each other only rarely—they barely remembered each other’s faces.
For Isabel, it was just an unimportant formality, something she could one day discreetly cancel.
Focused on her career and rebuilding her identity away from her family’s influence, Isabel finds new meaning in her professional life.
And it is into this scenario that Lorenzo Bellini, the new CEO of the company where she works, appears. An elegant, magnetic, reserved, and incredibly charismatic man.
From their first glance, there is an overwhelming connection between them—something deep, unsettling, and forbidden.
Gradually, Isabel finds herself completely entwined. Lorenzo is everything Jared never was: present, intense, passionate.
With him, Isabel experiences feelings she never imagined. Love blossoms silently, hidden in the company’s corridors, disguised in glances and furtive encounters.
But she keeps a secret—she is legally married. And as empty as the marriage may be, it exists.
What Isabel doesn’t know is that Lorenzo also harbors a secret.
Behind that name, that look, and that imposing confidence, is Jared. Yes, the very husband she married a year ago.
After assuming a new identity to distance himself from family scandals and restart his business life on his own merit, Jared reinvented himself as Lorenzo Bellini—and never imagined he would end up falling in love… with his own wife.
The revelation comes like an earthquake. Isabel finds herself betrayed, confused, torn apart.
Everything she experienced, everything she felt—was it real or a sham? Jared, now Lorenzo, is torn between telling the truth and losing her forever, or maintaining his disguise and winning her love on his own merit.
Hopefully You Were Gone is a novel about identity, destiny, and the ironies of the heart. A story where true love can hide behind lies, and where sometimes you have to lose everything to discover who you really are—and who you truly love.
Because the heart doesn’t recognize contracts.
And when love knocks… sometimes, it’s too late to pretend you don’t feel it.