Chapter Seven
Chance
Waking up in my bed with the smell of Ruby in my nose, but no woman in my arms turned my smile into a frown. “Damn.”
Of course, she had to be at work early, and that’s why she wasn’t there snuggling with me. But I missed her already. Throwing my legs over the side of the bed, I felt the pain from the events of the day before. A smile curved my lips as the memory of catching that monster of a fish flooded my brain.
There wasn’t time to be lying around, reveling in my memories, though. I had to talk to my mother about my great-grandmother’s rings. She’d told me that I could have them when I found the woman I was going to marry. But I wasn’t sure she would let me have them when I hadn’t even told her I’d been seeing anyone.
Calling my mom, I wanted to butter her up a
