CYNTHIA's P O V

My excitement level skyrocketed to an all-time high as the day of Melanie’s birthday celebration arrived. A big smile crept onto my lips when I finished wrapping her birthday gift, and placed it on my desk. It was a pair of diamond earrings that were sitting inside of a small jewelry box.

She had a lifelong fascination with diamonds, and she had mentioned to me in the past that she had a recurring dream in which her father gave her a pair of diamond earrings. However, this could never happen in real life because her father had passed away from cancer three years earlier, so I...