Late Affection Is Not Worthy for Anyone

From the back cover

Chloe Young is twenty-six when a diagnosis of a glioma in her frontal lobe sentences her to death. She hides the report beneath the sofa when her husband Yves Whitman comes home, and asks only that he go with her to the hospital. He refuses, impatient, consumed by the company going public. She has loved him for eight years, and he still keeps his ex-girlfriend Alyssa Davis close.

At the office, Alyssa clings to Yves' arm and mocks her, and Chloe, who once endured being pushed into a toilet, refuses to apologize. She throws the food box away and tells Yves that since there are delicacies outside, he need not eat leftovers at home. She waits for an explanation that never comes.

Then her father Quinn Young demands five million dollars, and when a car rushes toward her young brother Liam, Quinn pushes her into its path. Chloe cries and tells him he is no longer her father.