Where did you get that ring

against his chest.

“What do I do?” he asked.

It was the first time in years he had asked his mother that question.

Evelyn looked at him, and for one second, she was not the Bennett family matriarch. She was simply his mother.

“You stop the wedding,” she said. “You do it calmly. You do it publicly enough that she cannot rewrite the story, but not cruelly continue reading …