The Scandal Before the Vows novel · Chapter 11 of 24
Chapter 11: Rings
Trenton's text came while I was drying dishes in Margo's kitchen.
Jeweler on Fourth. 5 p.m. You carry them. Don't make me come get you.
I read it twice.
"You don't have to go," Margo said, without turning from the sink.
"I do," I said. "He's put it in writing, and so have I."
"Then Elliot drives."
"I can take a bus."
"Elliot drives," she said, and put a dish towel over my shoulder.
The jeweler's shop was narrow and bright, with a glass counter and an old man behind it who wore a loupe on a chain.
Trenton was already there.
He stood with his back to the door and his hands in his pockets.
He looked at me in the glass and did not turn around.
"Mom isn't coming," he said.
"I heard."
"She won't answer my calls. She told my father's sister that I was no son of hers." His voice was thin. "Thanks to you."
"Thanks to Brynn's story."
"You didn't have to say it in front of everybody."
"Trenton," I said. "You pushed me out of a car."
He flinched, just slightly, at the corner of his mouth.
Then the old man set a velvet box on the counter and cleared his throat.
"Two bands, platinum, engraved as requested." He opened the lid to show me. "The bride's has the date. The groom's has her initial."
I looked down.
The rings were beautiful.
They lay side by side on blue satin, plain and clean.
Inside the groom's band, in tiny script, was a B.
"These are for the day," the old man said. "For the rehearsal the night before the wedding, we've set aside a stand-in pair in brass. Real ones stay in my safe until the morning of."
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