Chapter 147

Vera's POV

Three days before our anniversary, I sat at the worktable in my home office with the jeweler's certificate and the velvet box and a legal pad covered in crossed-out sentences, and I tried to decide if I had done enough.

The watch was already done. It had been ready for six weeks, sitting in a locked drawer like a secret I was almost too nervous to open. I had commissioned it from a watc