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Larissa's POV

He dug into the pocket of his suit and produced a velvet box. He placed it on the table and slid it toward me.

“What’s in there? Something that will help us?”

“Yes.”

“What is it? A flash drive filled with incriminating evidence?” I asked.

“The box is in front of you Larissa. Open it and find out for yourself.”

I did as he asked. Inside the box was a simple yet elegant ring, a single diamond set in a delicate bond. I peered at it and then pulled the ring out of the box. I turned it around in my hand. I once owned a flash drive that looked like a lipstick, maybe this was something like that.

I turned to Brayden. “How do you open it?”

“Open a ring? Are you dense?”

“Wait, this is a ring? Like a ring ring?”

He groaned. “Are you also blind?”

“I am neither of those things.” I snapped at him. I kept the part where I thought the ring doubled as some sort of flash drive to myself, not wanting to endure any more insults from Brayden. “Why are you showing me this? Is it evidence in
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