Emma's POVI sleep with the ring on.I don't mean to make it a thing. I just don't take it off before bed and wake up at six with the unfamiliar weight of it and lie there getting used to it before I open my eyes.Thin gold band. Single stone. Eleanor.Impossible to manage.I look at the ceiling and think about a woman I never met who left a ring in a box in a desk drawer that waited ten years for the right person and apparently decided I was her.I think about Daniel knowing. From the start, Dominic said. Daniel had opinions.I think about all the ways this was already written before either of us agreed to any of it.Then I get up because I'm not a person who lies in bed philosophizing. I'm a person who makes tea and stands in kitchens and works things out with her hands.He's already up, not his office. The kitchen, which is where I find him, standing at th
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