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“Is Reggie here?” I ask, relieved when I hear his chuckle before his bulk comes out from a hallway.
“If it isn’t Adam Thompson. What brings you in here today with this little gem?” Reggie says, making Cleo smile but cling to me a bit more.
“We’re looking for an engagement ring for the most incredible woman ever,” I answer, taking out the little piece of string I tied around Jasmine’s finger last night after she was out. “This should be about the right size.”
“Sneaky, well now, come on back and we can look through some of my prettiest diamonds,” Reggie says, and I slow him down as we head back towards his private showroom.
“Actually, I was thinking about an opal as the main stone instead. Something with more of a gray or smoky tint, but with lots of brilliance to it,” I tell him, making the man’s brow rise for a minute before he nods.
“Not just any girl is she?” Reggie asks.
“No, she’s not. She’s amazing and we love her to bits.”
“We do,” Cleo agrees, climbing onto my lap while Reggie goes to pick out some rings for us to look over.
None of them are quite what I want, but one of the raw stones he lays on the mat is the perfect starting point. It’s the exact color of Jasmine’s eyes when she’s completely sated, and the urge to have it on her finger grows exponentially with it being a shaped like a raindrop. Reggie calls it a teardrop, but it definitely plays into our first kiss by the fountain.
He plays around with some designs, until it’s perfect. It’ll have a small halo of diamonds surrounding the opal, on a split shank band, that will have more diamonds on it. The two bands curve and cross, one going under the main stone while the other flows around the end of it, giving it another smaller halo effect. The wedding band will top the point part in similar fashion to the edge halo, and I think the stone looks perfect against the platinum.
“So when do you think it’ll be ready?” I ask as he rings up my deposit on it.
“For you and since I have a band that should work for most of it two weeks,” he says and I nod, wishing it were sooner, but I want Jasmine to have the perfect ring.
“Alright, I guess I could give it to her on her birthday then,” I tell Cleo who grins wildly. “That means you can’t tell her anything about it.”
“Eek,” Cleo gulps but she nods, and I press a kiss to the top of her head before another ring in Reggie’s display catches my attention. It has two diamonds on either side of a sapphire, and I motion to it making Reggie’s brow rise in question.
“What size is that?” I ask him.
“A six, why? You’re changing your mind after I just spent two hours coming up with that masterpiece?” he says looking at me like I’ve lost it.
“No, but my girls’ birthdays are in April, mine’s in September, so it’s perfect for a promise ring so to say,” I state, and with it in hand, Cleo and I head home to wait for Jasmine.
Sunday morning we sleep in then spend a lazy day at home, and I drop a kiss to her lips as she comes down the stairs with Cleo, both of them dressed for dinner with her family. She looks stunning in a pair of comfy jeans and another of her sweaters that hangs off the shoulder. This one at least doesn’t go nearly as far, which is a good thing since we’ll be around her family, and I don’t need a hard-on the entire night.
I’m a little speechless when she directs me to the biggest house I’ve ever seen. My place is impressive to most, but this one makes it look like a pauper’s.
“Do you live in a hotel?” Cleo asks as I park where Jasmine directs.
“No sweetie, my dad wanted a big family even before he met my mom, so he built the house for just the right woman to come along. He also had part of it constructed to be able to have events here and show it off,” Jasmine tells us as we head through what appears to be a back door. “This part of the house is the east wing, down here are the party rooms as we always called them. My rooms are up on the second floor over here, while my parents, and younger brother and sisters that still live here, use the other wing.”
“It’s so big,” Cleo whispers and my eyes slip down to Jasmine, silently asking the unspoken question.
“I liked that you weren’t interested in me just for my money. A lot of guys I dated were hoping to live off my trust fund or ask for stupid expensive presents,” she tells me, and I stop us, cupping her face, kissing her to show all I want is her. This means nothing to me because I know I can support her myself if she ever wants to quit her job.
“No more keeping secrets, okay baby?” I state and she nods, resting against my side before leading us further into the house.
I hear them before I see the group, but my feet stop when I find several familiar faces looking back at us.
“Jas, what the hell?” Jamison says looking from her to me then back to her, his tone is angry, and it raises my hackles. I slip my hand onto her hip, turning her further into my arms not about to let him near her.
“Well, I guess we don’t have to worry about things going wrong with the contracts now,” Johnnie says, pulling chuckles from Jesse and Serena who’s sitting with a woman that looks a lot like Jasmine and Jaime. The same chin and cheeks, and I know they’re sisters.
“Contracts?” Jasmine says, glancing up at me and I brush a knuckle across her cheek dropping a kiss to her forehead.
“I met with them earlier this week to bid on doing the manufacturing of the new furniture line. The one I told you about Friday over dinner,” I add, and she nods.
“You met with the carpenter which is why you asked me to pick up Cleo from school,” she says, and I confirm with a nod. “That was Jamison?” she adds with a little laugh before turning to her brother. “So you all have already met?”
