Waiting for You (Pages and Promises Book 2)

I just found my engagement ring in my best friend’s older brother’s jacket. The man I said no to seven years ago.

He proposed when we were twenty and had nothing, and my father told me I’d never see my family again if I married him.

I was too scared to choose him, so I gave the ring back.

Now he’s a billionaire and I’m at his sister’s wedding pretending the last seven years didn’t happen.

We got sent to the wine cellar for champagne and the door slammed shut behind us.

No signal, no way out, just us and the music thumping through the ceiling.

He draped his jacket over my shoulders and I felt something press against my chest from the inside pocket.

I reached in and pulled out a velvet box with the same ring I gave back seven years ago.

I looked at him and whispered,

“You kept it?”