Fake Fiance With Benefits by Aubrey Wright

Author:Aubrey Wright [Wright, Aubrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Goodreads: 48643182
Published: 2019-10-29T00:00:00+00:00

16

Jon

Now that Rain was back, I felt like I’d been given another chance to finally find happiness. Allison was right when she’d said I had always been in love with Rain and that I always would be, too. I had no intentions of ever letting her go again. I’d made a mistake when I had made her feel like she wasn’t my forever. I meant to change that.

I headed into the small stretch that made up the town of Muskrat Creek to see my dad’s old friend Betty Sue.

“Jon! It’s so good to see you.” She greeted me with a hug. “How’re you getting along?”

“I’m good, Betty Sue. How are y’all doing?”

“Oh, we’re just fine. You know my daughter, Hannah, just got into UGA. We’re tickled pink.”

“That’s great. Tell her congratulations.”

“I will. What brings you by today?”

“I need some help with a ring.”

“What sort of ring?”

“I don’t know exactly. An engagement ring.”

“Oh, wow. Who’s the lucky girl? That lovely little Allison Clarke?”

“No. I, um...no. Raintree Harper.”

“Oh, right. Are you sure this time? First, Allison. Then, Raintree. Didn’t she run back off to California on you?”

“She had to take care of some business. She’s back now,” I said, knowing the rumor mill would say what it would.

“Well, that’s grand. What did you have in mind? My selection here isn’t huge, but I’ve got catalogs. I can order you in pretty much anything you want.”

I reached into my pocket, fishing out the small piece of velvet inside and pulling the ring free of it. I handed it across the counter and she looked it over for a moment before looking back up at me.

“Something like this?”

“No. I want something completely different from that, but I want the stones in that ring and the metal in that ring incorporated.”

“So, you are wanting Tommy to create a special piece for you.”

“Exactly. Is he here?”

“No, but he’ll be back tomorrow. Let’s talk about what you have in mind as far as style, and I can get him started on it, let him put together some ideas for you.”

“I want something unusual, perhaps a gothic filigree-type band with my mother’s diamond in the center, and two new diamonds on either side.”

“And you want to stick with the white gold?”

“Yes.”

“What about size?”

“That ring is the correct size. She wore it for a while.”

Betty Sue looked at me with an odd expression but said nothing else. Instead, she pulled out a stick that looked like a long cone and placed the ring on it, writing down the size in her notes.

“You got a phone number, Jon?”

I rattled off my digits for her, and she nodded, tapping her pen on the notepad before laying it down and looking back up at me again.

“How’s your father?” she asked.

“He’s good. I haven’t seen a lot of him lately. Been really busy with a bunch of renovations.”

“I haven’t seen him lately either. Tell him I said hello next time you do.”

“I’ll do that,” I told her. “Tell Tommy I’m counting on him to make me look good.

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