The Bride Asked for My Taste. I Gave Her a Wedding Gift She Couldn’t Return.

good.”

“That is absurd.”

“That is tax-deductible.”

I tried not to laugh.

Failed.

He stepped closer, but not too close.

He had learned my distances.

Or perhaps he had always known how to respect them.

“I didn’t buy it for the ring,” he said.

“No. I bought it because some objects should never go back into circulation.”

Something in me softened.

Not collapsed.

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