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“Point well made,” Sarah said, and she stepped back out of the changing room the moment she had unzipped Kayla's dress.
Kayla hurried to pull on her vest top and jeans, forgetting her underwear and shoes in a hurry to see what Lance wanted.
The second she was out the door, she couldn't help herself, she flew at Lance and wrapped her arms around his shoulders, kissing him strongly before she asked, “What are you doing here?”
Lance pushed her away with his hands on her hips and said, “There's something I've been meaning to give you, but I wasn't sure when would be the right time. I couldn't wait any longer.”
Curious, Kayla watched as Lance pulled a small velvet box from the breast pocket of his leather jacket.
“Wha…what is that?” Kayla asked, a lump forming in her throat.
Lance popped open the box and said, “I want you to have this. It's a family heirloom.”
Kayla gasped as she saw the antique ring with its one large sapphire accompanied by a circle of smaller diamonds.
“It…it's gorgeous, but I can't accept it!” Kayla protested, wanting to smack herself for saying such a thing. “It's a family heirloom! It should be Sarah's, or even Lewis’s for when he gets mated.”
Kayla almost laughed at that last part. There was no way Lewis would ever get mated. He was too busy sticking his dick in anyone that would let him. No self-respecting she-wolf would ever look twice at him.
“Actually,” Sarah's voice sounded muffled for a second before she pulled open the boutique door. “It was my idea that you should have it. You love old things. I like shiny and new.”
She looked at Lance as she said the word ‘old’ and offered her father a little wink.
“Watch your mouth, young lady,” Lance growled at his daughter. “You may be a grown woman now, but you're not too old for this old wolf to show you a thing or two.”
“Exactly my point—old,” Sarah laughed, squinting her eyes playfully before she turned to Kayla and added, “What I mean to say is you like history and sentimentality and all that romantic crap.”
Kayla scowled deeply. “It's not crap!”
“Not to you, it isn't, and that's why I suggested you should have the ring when Dad came and asked me about it,” Sarah said, smiling warmly, and Kayla could almost forget that anything had ever been wrong between them.
“Oh, thank you!” Kayla exclaimed, wrapping her arms around her best friend. She hugged her so tightly that she heard Sarah blow a deep exhale.
Sarah hugged her back with the same strength until Kayla was sure that neither of them could breathe.
“Hey, am I invisible here? I'm the one who is giving you the ring,” Lance pointed out, his tone half-hurt and half-amused.
Kayla released Sarah and threw her arms around Lance. Forgetting the promise she had just made to Sarah, she kissed him hard on the lips and just barely managed to stop from opening her mouth when his tongue begged her for entry.
“Eww! You two, get a room!” Sarah growled at them both, and Kayla's eyes widened with dismay.
Shit!She opened her eyes and saw Sarah in her peripheral vision, turned away with her hand blocking her view of them. “Shit, I'm sorry.”
She blushed harder than ever before, feeling seriously guilty and embarrassed at having broken her promise already.
But when Sarah looked at her again, she was smiling, amusement in her eyes.
“I think I can let you off just this once,” Sarah said, gesturing at the ring box. “He did, after all, just hit you with one of your favorite things in the world, a really, really, really old ring.”
They all laughed together then and Kayla could feel the hole in her heart beginning to mend.
“It may be old, but it's perfect,” Kayla said, looking at the ring again. “I don't think I could have imagined better.”
“Then let's just hope that it fits,” Lance said, pulling the ring from the box. Closing it, he shoved the box back into his pocket and held out his free hand.
Heart hammering, Kayla laid her left hand in his and allowed him to slip the ring onto her wedding finger.
“Would you look at that? It fits like a glove!” Lance crowed, and Kayla laughed, happy tears pricking at her eyes.
