A few days later Nick got a call from Brass, a day shift officer just had told Brass that they had caught the robbers, they were caught on surveillance video and their prints were all over the restaurant so thankfully Jackie didn't have to go pick them out of a lineup, Nick didn't want her to go through that.

Nick wanted to go talk to the perps to see if by some miracle if he could get Jackie's ring back, but he didn't want to tell Jackie because he didn't want to get her hopes up. He wanted to try to get her original one back even though the previous day he had bought her a new one, she didn't know that yet though, he'd planned on giving it to her last night but the kids wore her out and she had fallen asleep on the couch.

"Honey, I have to run to the lab for a bit, Greg just called and asked if I'd help him with his case." He fibbed.

"Ok, be safe, I love you." She told him.

"I love you too." He responded before kissing her and then heading out the door.

"I want to talk to them Jim." Nick insisted.

"Fine, but Nicky, don't do anything stupid." Brass told him.

"Fine." Nick agreed. Nick walked into the interrogation room where one of the suspects, the one that had robbed Jackie and the elderly gentleman was.

"Hi Todd, my name is Nick Stokes, I'm a crime scene investigator. The woman that you pointed a gun at and made her crouch down in a corner, the woman whose wedding ring you stole, was my wife." Nick said with steely eyes.

All of the color drained out of the suspects face.

"Where is my wife's ring?" Nick demanded.

"Look you can get it back, I still have it in my car." He said quickly, talking so fast he almost tripped over his own words.

Nick felt a surge of hope but he didn't get all that excited yet, after all the guy he was talking too wasn't exactly a stand up citizen.

" I don't like it when people lie to me." Nick said, almost in a growl.

"I'm not lying, I swear, it's in the jockey box in my car in a plastic bag."

Within moments two officers headed for his house.

They came back a bit later, Nick was still in the interrogation room with the suspect.

Please tell me they found it Nick thought to himself as the two officers came into the interrogation room.

One of them laid a plastic bag on the table in front of Nick, Nick's heart leapt when he saw there was a ring inside of it.

His heart dropped though as he opened the bag and gently dropped the gorgeous diamond ring into the gloved palm of his right hand.

"This isn't my wife's ring." He said.

TBC