Chapter 30 Shadows Beneath The Light

• The ring on Sandra's finger glinted in the afternoon sun streaming through the penthouse windows. She couldn’t stop staring at it. The delicate diamond shimmered like a promise bright, eternal, and dangerously fragile.
• Steve watched her from the kitchen island, half amused and wholly in love. “You keep looking at it like it might disappear.”
• “It still doesn’t feel real,” she whispered, turning the ring slowly with her thumb. “Like any second now, I’ll wake up, and this will all be a dream.”