Outshining the Past

He stared at the ring in his hand and rotated it to see how the light would catch. “Magnificent job,” he said to Antoine, the owner of the jewelry store his family had frequented for years. He just couldn’t wait to see the look on Cora’s face. The ring in his hand was the one she couldn’t stop looking at when he had brought her there to pick her ring earlier. It was the one she clearly wanted, but