Apex Bloom
Franco reached into his tuxedo jacket.
"Lolita," he said, stepping out from behind the podium. He didn't drop to his knee – Kings do not kneel in the dirt when they propose; they stand as equals. But the reverence in his posture was absolute. He opened a small, black velvet box.
Inside rested a historic, flawless, thirty – carat blue diamond, set in platinum. It was a museum – grade stone. It was a monumentally valuable artifact worth easily ten times the generic, flashy rock sitting on Krista’s left hand. It caught the chandelier light and threw shards of brilliant blue fire across the walls.
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