His Forbidden Diamond

‘And now you’re distracting me,’ Jazz said, frowning as everyone left them to go inside the cabin for the feast the Skavanga sisters had insisted on preparing between them. ‘What was I complaining about?’

‘Not enough sex, I think,’ Tyr said, straight-faced.

Jazz could only be thankful that her brother had gone inside. There were a few things she definitely didn’t want to share with him.

‘And I’ve got something for you,’ Tyr whispered.

‘Later,’ Jazz warned.

‘No. Now,’ Tyr argued. Reaching inside the pocket of his impeccably tailored suit, he brought out a ring. It was studded with the flawless, flashing blue-white diamonds of Skavanga; he showed it to Jazz.

‘“For ever”,’ she said, having read the inscription on the inside of the band.

‘“And always”.’ As Tyr finished off the quotation he’d had inscribed inside the ring, he placed it next to the simple platinum wedding band on Jazz’s marriage finger. ‘This is for you, Jasmina—Jazz—the woman I’ve loved for ever, and will continue to love for ever. My friend, my lover, the woman who gave me back my life.’