The Words That Left Me Out

Synopsis

I'd been a translator for eight years, fluent in seven languages, but my husband, Edward Harper, always thought I was just an order coordinator at some trading company. One day, he took some clients out for dinner and asked me to help pour drinks. During the meal, a client Otto Schmidt said to Edward in Germian, "Your wife is really sweet. Not like that little minx of yours. She's a real handful." Edward nodded with a smile and replied in Germian, "Yeah, I'll have to coax that bossy one when I get home." I switched to Germian and asked Otto, "How long do you want the red wine to breathe?" Both of them froze. I wiped my hands and smiled at Edward. "I forgot to tell you, Germian is my second foreign language."