The Silent Claim

~Kaelen~

Evelyn opened the first box like a woman unwrapping something she had been promised in a dream for years and had stopped believing would actually arrive.

Inside sat a crystal decanter set, hand-cut, the kind of thing that belonged in a museum case more than a liquor cabinet, and she made a small, delighted sound that Arthur echoed a moment later when his own box revealed a set of cufflink