LXXIX. Diamond
When she came home that evening, the trunk was back.
She wanted to ignore it, but it was from him and she couldn't ignore anything about him, so she opened it.
The flowers from earlier had been replaced with ten thousand tiny rhinestones that glittered and threw rainbows across the room. Strewn atop the rhinestones was a single red rose with a diamond ring adorning its stem.
She couldn't help smiling, but she closed the trunk anyway. "You really think I can be bought?" she said to the empty hallway where she knew he was hiding. "Bless your soul."