This is something I never expected, but I keep my mouth shut and let Gabriel continue.

"Sterling developed a drinking problem after Molly dumped him, but I've never seen him drink like he did the day he found out that he had fallen in love with a prostitute. He drank so much that he was hospitalized. His stomach was bleeding. He was a total wreck. Sometimes I wonder if he was trying to kill himself…"

Gabriel pauses and chews on his lip. "But even after all that, after he recovered, he still loved Laura and wanted to marry her. He didn't care about anything else, he just wanted to be...