At the age of twenty-eight, she was no longer youthful and had reached the age of desiring marriage.
It wasn't that she didn't have suitors; on the contrary, there were plenty of young men who pursued her, many of them quite exceptional.
However, none of them could compare to Gem Atkinson.
What's worse, among those great young men, one had become sickly.
This sickly individual had infiltrated her life, even managing to replace her medicine undetected.
Meaning, the sickly person had endangered her life.
Investigations by Gem and others yielded no results.
So, Josh Levs and the rest came up with a plan to lure the sickly one out, like catching a turtle in a jar.
A fake wedding!
Using a fake wedding to catch the sickly person.
"I will not be the groom. Norton Jarvis, you do it." At first, Gem objected.
At that time, she felt a great heartache.
She knew that, because of Viola, she might never become Gem's bride in this life.
