The Heiress he never met
Instead, he'd commissioned something new, working with a small independent jeweler rather than any of the family's usual suppliers, a simple design that Isabella described with visible pride as entirely, uniquely her own.
"He said he wanted me to have something that started with us, rather than something inherited from a history I'd spent so long trying to separate myself from," Isabella said. "I think that's exactly right, honestly. I love what you and Sebastian built with Ruth's ring — I think it means something profound, carrying that history forward. But I needed something different for myself. Something that wasn't about restoration or restitution at all. Just about the two of us, start