Trapped by Them novel · Chapter 24 of 24

Chapter 24: A Plain Tuesday Morning

"There are two bands," I said. "And a space."

"The space is yours," Lachlan said.

The lamps hummed on the bridge behind him.

"The two bands are for the two of us. Tobias chose his, I chose mine, and neither of us picked yours."

"The jeweler on Third Street is holding a blank for you," Tobias said.

"You tell him what it looks like. We're done deciding things about you."

I looked at the empty slot in the velvet.

I had spent two years being the thing two men kept for later.

Now I was the one holding the box.

"Not tonight," I said.

Lachlan's face did not change, but I felt him brace.

"I mean I'm not choosing it in the dark with my skirt still crooked," I said.

"Ask me in daylight. Ask me on a plain Tuesday."

Tobias started to laugh.

Lachlan closed the box, slowly, and put it back in his coat.

"Daylight," he said. "Tuesday."

"And bring the letters. All four. I want to hear the worst one."

"It's the fourth," Tobias said. "You'll hate me for an hour."

"I'll live."

I took a hand from each of them, and we walked off the bridge together.

On Tuesday morning I was at my bench in the library basement by eight.

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