"A couple weeks ago I robbed a lady behind a convenience store, I didn't hurt her and the only thing I took from her is her ring."

Nick left the lab a short time later, leaving the investigation up to Brass and dayshift.

He went home.

Later that night after the kids had been put to bed Jackie got in her pajamas and got in bed herself. She opened her book and began to read. Nick got in bed next to her moments later.

"Jacks?" He said.

"Hmmm?" She said as she closed her book and looked at him.

"I got you something." He said as he held a small ring box in his hand.

Jackie smiled at him and opened the ring box and gasped. Inside the box there was a gorgeous emerald shaped diamond solitaire yellow gold engagement ring. The diamond had to be at least a karat and a half. Emerald shaped diamonds were Jackie's absolute favorite shape of diamonds, had Nick known that he would have gotten her an emerald shaped engagement ring for her original one. Soldered to the engagement ring was a plain yellow gold band, just how Jackie likes it.

"Honey, it's gorgeous, I love it, but it must have cost a fortune!"

"It wasn't too bad." He assured her with a smile.

She reached over and took the ring out of the box and slid it on her ring finger. It looked absolutely stunning and over time she hoped she would come to love it as much as she loved her original one.

"Thank you so much! I love it." She told him as she leaned over and gave him a kiss.

"I'm glad." He told her with a beaming smile.

She looked at the ring, she had to admit it looked good on her finger. She then got back to her book.

She had read just one paragraph when Nick said her name again.

She looked over at him again. He held yet another ring box and after he had gotten her attention he opened the box. She gasped as tears welled in her eyes and then started streaming down her face.

"My ring, my original ring, how did you get it back?" She asked as she gently took off her new one.

"Day shift caught the guys that committed the robbery, your ring was still in one of the idiot's cars."

She reached over to grab her ring but Nick pulled the box back.

"Here, let me." He said as he took the ring out of the box and slid it on her finger.

"What are you going to do with the new ring, and why did you buy me a new one if you got my old one back?" She asked.

"I bought the new one before your old one was recovered."

"Oh." She answered.

"And I'll take the other one back." He told her.

"Can you do that? I don't think they'll give you your money back."

"Well when I was looking for a new ring I just went to different jewelry stores. Do you know the new jewelry store on Hayward Boulevard?"

"I've heard of it but I haven't been in it."

"Well I decided to go look in there and the store happened to be owned by a high school football teammate and friend of mine. I told him what happened to you. I asked him if he had any emerald shaped diamond yellow gold engagement rings and he had a few. The one I bought was my favorite but it was $7,000. I told him I couldn't afford it and he said that he felt really bad about what happened to you, he let me buy it for only $1,000. He also said that if by some chance we got your other one back that I could bring this one back and he would give me a complete refund."

"Wow that was so nice of him! When you go take it back I want to go with you so I can personally thank him alright?"

"Sure." He answered.

Jackie went to sleep that night completely over the moon about getting her ring back. Nick thought that this entire horrible ordeal was over but as he would later find out it wasn't.

TBC…

*Note-The new ring Nick got Jackie was not emerald colored, it was emerald shaped, so it was a white diamond. Ladies out there if you don't know what an emerald shaped diamond looks like you should look them up, they are gorgeous! They are my favorite, and Jackie's too! Just a tidbit for you!