Lynn’sPOV

"She's not here yet," Jordan observes.

"We're early." I check my phone. 2:58. "She said three o'clock."

We wait. I set the jewelry case on the table, run my fingers over the velvet.

These designs are some of my best work. Pink diamonds. Intricate metalwork. Moon phases instead of vines, per Shirley's request.

For her wedding to Grayson.

My chest aches.

'We should leave,' Istha ...