He stood before her, and after a few seconds, he slowly knelt on one knee before taking out an exquisitely crafted jewelry box from behind him and with a "snap," opened it.
In the jewelry box, resting on the black velvet lining, a diamond sparkled quietly as if it were a star he had just plucked from the sky.
Jaylene Ziel was stunned, gazing down at the man who was kneeling on one knee before her. For a moment, she thought she saw him from last July, in the doorway of a business hotel, kneeling before her to propose.
Back then, she had accepted his so-called proposal out of necessity, compelled by circumstance. But what about this time?
Joseph Thompson knelt there, holding up the exquisite box, and within it, the diamond shone brightly against the black velvet lining, like the brilliant meteor behind him.
She remembered the year before their divorce, when he had taken her to a charity evening party, and that night, he had bid on a diamond raw stone.
