The disturbance by the shoreline broke out just as Felix was about to slide the ring onto Naomi's finger.
"Go check what's happening over there," Felix said abruptly, pausing mid-motion as he signaled his assistant. At the same time, his gaze swept quickly across the crowd. Then he noticed something that made his stomach drop. Jade wasn't there.
A strange panic surged through him, so sudden and intense that it startled even him.
Naomi noticed his distraction. She was about to say something when the assistant came sprinting back, breathless.
"Mr. Garza... It's Mrs. Garza. Mrs. Garza, she... She jumped into the sea!"
The assistant spoke quietly, but those words landed like a thunderclap in Felix's ears. Something inside him seized up, a crushing, twisting pain that tore through his ches
