From Lies To Loyalty
Hargrove still couldn't stop himself from flinching as if he was the one being knocked around.
Reese, apparently, couldn’t use his usual jeweller since we weren’t in Chicago, and neither of us had wanted to wait until we got back there to do any of this, because we had decided that the wedding itself would happen here, in this city, in this space that still felt temporary to me.
The realization sat quietly at the back of my mind, persistent and impossible to ignore, that I had left Chicago as a single woman and would be returning as someone’s wife, the shift so significant and yet so sudden that I still hadn’t fully processed what it meant.