When the Devotion Was a Lie

Synopsis

The most celebrated man in New York, Gabriel Stone, fell deeply in love with me. A deaf woman. He learned sign language for me. To marry me, he even accepted his family's punishment. Everyone said I was the luckiest woman. But when I recovered my hearing after surgery and excitedly wanted to tell him the good news, I overheard him talking to his ex-girlfriend outside his study. "Marry her? It was just to make you jealous." It turned out our three-year marriage was a lie from start to finish. Jane's POV The most celebrated man in New York, Gabriel Stone, fell in love with me. A deaf woman. For me, he learned sign language from scratch. He set off fireworks for three nights straight under the night sky. He used over ten thousand drones at the harbor to publicly declare his love. He even planted my favorite orchids all around the mansion where he lived. When he proposed to marry me, everyone thought he'd lost his mind. The Stone family was furious. "Jane is disabled. Have your fun if you must, but she is not welcome in our home." But he remained stubborn and left them with one sentence: "I will marry no one but Jane." To marry me,