Chapter 51
Brielle
As we walk, I slip off Hope’s engagement ring and hand it back to her.
“Thanks for letting us use it,” I tell her. “And I have to say, I was nervous the entire time about losing it.”
She laughs. “I was too, at first. I could not believe Jason got it for me, and I was terrified to wear it anywhere because I just knew I was going to snag it on something somehow. But over time I got used to it, and now it feels really weird to be without it.”
She slides off her wedding band long enough to put the engagement ring on, then puts her band on again.
“There. All better. Now, let’s go see what Bethany brought. I gave her estimates of your height and dress sizes, and I am curious to see how close I got.”
I follow her into a second, smaller conference room where a woman who l
