WHICH MAN STAYS?
The future was the brightening sky, the welcoming shape of their home on the bluff, the weekend stretching before them.
That afternoon, they drove into the small, bustling town of Seabrook. They went to a jeweler’s studio, not a boutique, but the workshop of an old craftsman named Eli who worked with silver mined from local mountains and turquoise from desert canyons. His hands were gnarled and stained, his eyes kind.
“We need two rings,” Liam said. “Not for a battle. For a peace.”