"I'm crazy," Max said, shaking his head. Gerald winced upon hearing it.

"I thought before, when you said he was the twin brother of your runaway fiancée, he did it—at least under pressure, but it was his parents' pressure. I didn't think you'd stoop so low, G."

"You don't know the whole story," Gerald replied. "I didn't even know she existed before that day if she hadn't come to the Brooks residence." And so Gerald spilled the entire story: his desire for her at first sight, his passion when ...