help Daniel recover. I was the one who accompanied her.”
“But why did Dad think you betrayed him?”
Richard smiled sadly.
“Because I didn’t do what he asked. He had ordered me to return the ring. Instead, I kept it and helped Linda visit him every day. When my brother discovered that we had gone behind his back, he refused to speak to me for a long time.”
I looked at the ring.
“But they eventually got married. Why have you kept it all these years?”
Richard’s eyes filled with tears.
“Because this isn’t the old ring.”
He turned it over.
Engraved inside were the words:
“Linda and Daniel. 50 Years Together.”
I held my breath.
“Next month is their fiftieth wedding anniversary?”
“Yes. I’ve been saving money for the past two years to organize the wedding they were robbed of all those years ago. Your mother knows about it.
