My heart lurched.
I wasn't imagining things. His reaction to the ring was far from normal.
He had clearly seen it before.
But we had known each other for less than 2 days.
My fiancé had a ring identical to mine.
If this man recognized it, he could only have seen Ryan's.
A wild and frightening thought came to me.
'Could he and Ryan be enemies?'
"Answer me!"
His eyes were red. Pain and shock filled his stare, along with one last trace of desperate hope.
My mind went blank under his shout. I blurted out the first lie I could think of. "I found it."
The tension left his shoulders, and he released a hard breath.
But the next second, the questions came pouring out. "Where did you find it? How did you find it? Did you see the owner?"
I hesitated, then kept lying, "At the foot of a hi
