Key Of Knowledge by nora roberts

Author:nora roberts
Language: eng
Format: azw
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780515136371
Publisher: Jove
Published: 2003-11-25T00:00:00+00:00

="calibre4">enough of him to twist her heart again. "Where did you go?"

"I went back to the day you were packing to move to New York. I

experienced it

again. Watched my serf experiencing it. It was very strange, and no less

horrible

knowing I was watching a rerun. It was like standing on both sides of a

one-way

mirror. Watching us, and still being a part of it. Everything you said to

me,

everything you didn't say to me, was class="calibre4

Chapter Seventeen

\f O U sure about this?" Brad studied Jordan, and the 7 square-cut ruby

ring in

his hand. 'Yeah. I think. She'd like this better than the traditional

diamond."

"I don't mean the ring. I mean what you're buying the ring for."

"I'm sure. A little queasy, but sure."

"I'm not going to take offense," Flynn decided. "I could take offense that asking my

sister to marry you makes you queasy, but I won't."

Jordan smiled a little as he turned the ring under t he right. He'd wanted

them both

with him when he took this step. A kind of circle, he supposed, just as

the ring

was a circle. He couldn't say either of them had been thrilled to be

hauled off to

Pittsburgh and into a jewelry stone, but they'd come through.

They always did.

"I think this is the one. I know she is." He offered the

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ring to Brad. "You know more about this stuff than either of us. Give me

an

opinion of the rock."

Behind the counter, the jeweler began to make noises.

"Yeah, yeah." Jordan waved him off. "I know the spiel. I'd rather hear

what my pal

here has to say."

"I can assure you that stone is an excellent quality. Burmese ruby at

three carats,

set in eighteen-karat gold. The craftsmanship of the-"

"Why don't you get me a loupe?" Brad suggested pleasantly. "The guy's

buying an

engagement ring. It's a moment."

He might not have been happy, but the potential sale had him producing

a

jeweler's loupe and offering it to Brad.

Playing it out, Brad hemmed, hawed, and hmmmed before setting both

the ring

and the loupe on the black velvet pad. "You're buying yourself a hell of

a rock," he

said. "It hits the three C's-color, cut, clarity, and at three substantial

carats, rounds

it out nicely. She'll love it."

"Yeah, that's what I thought. Wrap it up," he told the

jeweler.

"We should go get a beer now, right?" Flynn glanced warily at the other

rings hi

the glass case. "And Jordan should buy, in a symbolic gesture of... oh,

heir with all

that. I just want a beer."

"All in good time, my pretty." Jordan pulled out his wallet, dug out his

credit card.

"We've got another stop to make on the way back."

THE way he looked at it, he was going to make a clean sweep. A kind of

romantic

hat trick. He got the girl, he'd bought the ring. Now, he thought as they

pulled

through the gates of Warrior's Peak, he was going to see if he could

finesse the

house.

"This is wild," Flynn said from the backseat where Moe snored beside

him,

exhausted by the thrill of the car trip. "I thjnk I'm in some sort of shock."

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"Pretty wild," Jordan agreed. "But the fact is, I always wanted this place.

Even

when I was a kid.

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