The Day I Heard His Heart Speak

The marriage was arranged between the families as a piece of business. Gemma Snow had been in love with Elliot Ziegler for years by then, so the arrangement handed her what she had wanted without her having to ask for it. He left her alone on the wedding night. Three years went by in the same manner. People around her told her that Elliot was still holding on to a first love, and she believed it and decided to step out of the way. They slept together on the night before the divorce was to go through. After that Gemma could hear what Elliot was thinking, and the cold way he had behaved for three years turned out to have come from a misunderstanding that neither of them had ever put into words.