The Substitute Wife's Farewell
Language: en
Gabriel Vance was probably the gentlest person I had ever met. I had been rejected twenty times because I talked too much. When we first met at a concert, I chatted his ear off for half an hour. I stopped only when I realized I was rambling, but he looked puzzled and smiled gently at me. "Keep going, I'm listening." I fell for him quickly, and we got married. Three months into our marriage, he spoke pitifully little. Whether I nearly burned down the house cooking or ended up in the police station for causing trouble, he remained calm and gentle, never speaking more than ten words at…