RENEE

“Girl, I’ll be damned if this man doesn’t love you already. Just see the gifts…. Oh girl, I say you’ve hit the jackpot with this one.”

Staring mindlessly at the couple art notebook Robert gifted me and the lone tulip flower attached to the wrapped package therein, I didn’t say a word as Nicole went on and on.

Another cryptic note was also attached to the presents, but I wasn’t ready to read it yet.

Instead, I just stared blankly at everything I’d sprawled out on the ...