Ray POV
"Despite being a free-spirited girl, Elise eventually agreed to marry me. The first ten years of our marriage were bliss. Elise never planned to be a wife and a mother, but she did, and took the responsibility to become Madam Gatlin."
"For that beautiful ten years, it felt like I was walking on clouds while holding the hand of a beautiful angel. But it was nothing but a mirage. The moment she knew about what I had done to destroy her family business, she grew to resent me completely, refusing my touch, ignoring me as if I never existed in the first place, and also forbade me to touch my own son."
"And that resentment was eating her from the inside out before she passed away in her sleep, right?" I completed that story, because I had heard it from my grandma's little brother, and putting the pieces together made it obvious that my grandfather was drowning in guilt after her death.
