A Reagan Keeter Box Set: Three page-turning thrillers that will leave you wondering who you can trust by Reagan Keeter

Author:Reagan Keeter [Keeter, Reagan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Irresistible Publishing
Published: 2021-02-12T22:00:00+00:00

Christopher Bell

Chris had been dating Emma for five years and living with her for eighteen months before he’d worked up the nerve to ask her to marry him. Actually, he hadn’t asked. He’d only bought a ring, but that was a big step forward for him.

The jeweler had described it as a French Pavé diamond eternity engagement ring with a round three-carat diamond clocking in at over fifty-three thousand dollars. Except for the price, that all meant nothing to Chris. But it was pretty. Emma would love it.

What Chris knew well were stocks. He was a broker for Ellison Trust with a solid track record. He could predict the movement of the Dow better than most. It was a reputation that had gotten him booked on CNN and MSNBC, as well as quoted in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal.

To say he was good because he did his homework would be an understatement. All the brokers Chris knew did their homework, though few stayed at the office as late as he did and even fewer took stacks of documents to bed with them to read before going to sleep.

Emma couldn’t understand how anybody could put that many hours into a job. Nor could she understand why, if he brought his work home anyway, he would so often stay at the office well into the night. Although Chris had told her he could concentrate better there, she didn’t buy it. On more than one occasion, she’d accused him of having an affair.

That was something he would never do. Making her believe that, though, wasn’t always easy. Emma would snoop through his drawers, open his credit card statements, check his email. Chris knew all this and loved her anyway. He had no secrets. Not until he’d bought the ring, and that one secret he couldn’t let her uncover before he was ready.

He’d carried it around in his jacket for the first two weeks, telling himself one night or the next, or maybe this weekend, he would pop the question. Perhaps he’d take her out on his boat for a candlelight dinner and do it under the stars. But the weekend came and went and one night folded into the next and still he hadn’t asked.

Chris wasn’t concerned about her answer. Emma had been hinting at marriage for a while. If he’d came home one day, dropped the ring on the table, and said, “You wanna?”, he was confident she would have said yes. Although in practice Chris had given up the single life long ago, he was reluctant to make it official. Marriage came with a string of entanglements, not the least of which was financial. Emma had already announced she wasn’t going to sign a prenup, and that never sat right with him.

When Chris had come to terms with the reality that he wasn’t going to propose yet, he’d decided he better put the ring somewhere safe until he was finally, actually, and truly ready. He’d selected the First National on State Street because it was close to his office.

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