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Garrett
He stood looking at engagement rings on Monday morning. He was in an exclusive jewellery store, and being attended to by not one of the sales staff that had been behind the counter when he’d walked in. But the store manager, who had come out and shooed them away, to
tend to him herself.
She then proceeded to bring out the store’s most expensive rings and place them before him. She was standing there herself telling him about each of those seven rings that she’d laid out before him. They were all large diamonds, some with diamond–encrusted bands or diamond
surrounds.
They were impressive, but very large and flashy. They were full statement pieces that showed
off how much money one had spent was all he saw. The first one was fifty thousand dollars,
and they only went up in price. He didn’t think they were the right fit for Harmony.
Who still worked and enjoyed doing so. He’d also seen her just last night check her bank balance and pay some bills. She’d not asked him for any money or to help her out in any way.
He’d also seen just how little money she had in the bank after paying all her bills, one of them
being to him for two weeks‘ rent for her apartment downstairs. She’d lived in it for two weeks
and insisted on paying her own way.
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She’d pointed out her pay from his company had come in, and even asked why there were two weeks‘ pay
in there, stating they’d had from Christmas to New Year’s off. He’d smiled at her:
Mandatory holidays made by us. It’s not up to the employees, so we pay the wages for it, so
they don’t lose out on money. It’s a tough time of year for some.” Though only the human
employees got paid for that week, the wolfen did not.
She’d barely had two thousand dollars left to her name, but she had smiled about it and told
him “I can start saving again.” Been happy about that much money in there, he’d thought.
When he could spend that much money without thinking about it, take less than a minute
some days.
Harmoney didn’t need big flashy, expensive things, she also didn’t wear jewellery that looked like what this woman was showing him. He was not convinced to even pick one up and look
at it.
“I don’t think Harmony would wear any of those Garrett.” Wyatt stated from next to him.
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“Neither do I. She likes very understated pieces, not overstated.” He looked at the woman;
Beverly was her name. “My girlfriend is petite, those would not suit being on her hand, show me something beautiful but understated.”
“Mr Owens, any girl.would love one of these rings,” she’d told him, “and with your wealth and
status, these are the rings you should be looking at. Do you really think Mr Owens, something
smaller and of lesser value, is acceptable to your future bride, considering who you are? That
watch you’re wearing is worth more than half these rings.”
His eyes move to hers now, “If a woman loves a man and wants to marry him, for love. She would be happy with a simple ring from a regular department store, and wouldn’t care about the price. If a woman doesn’t accept anything less than the most expensive ring, simply
because one has the money to buy it.
“Then she doesn’t love the man, she is only after his money… as I can now see you are. After my money, the commission you’ll get. Good day Beverly, he’d stated, and turned to walk from
the store.
Wyatt had chuckled as they’d stepped outside. “Didn’t like her sales pitch?”
“Not particularly no…she also gets a commission, like I stated, from every sale I imagine. It’s why the other girls were sent away. I heard them mutter about it as the door swung closed to the staff area, ‘She always stops us from getting the biggest commissions‘. That’s what one
of them stated.
He’d not liked that about Beverly. The girl that had been attending him, Louise, had smiled nicely at him, hadn’t known who he was and had asked him what he was looking for. She hadn’t just expected him to be looking for an engagement ring. There were many necklaces and earring sets on display. She’d just asked him what the occasion for the purchase was as
well.
Right as Beverly had come out of the staff area, she’d looked at him, known who he was and shooed the two girls away stating “Mr Owens is here to buy an engagement ring. I’ll assist
him with that.”
“Understated beauty, Wyatt mused aloud, as they got into his car. “You know Garrett, your father always shops at Tiffany & Co. Why don’t we try there? You do like the jewellery your
mother wears.”
He did like it. It was never too over the top, always just perfect for his mother. “A good idea, though we’ll need a whole day for that to go to Denver.”
“And?” Wyatt chuckled. “Ryan and Dallas can attend any meeting of yours or mine, so could
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Laurie. She does it all the time when we’re not home.”
Garrett nodded, “More about leaving harmony all alone. But yes.” He nodded. “Alright.”
“I’ll book an appointment and check flights and sort it all out. We should be able to be home
by tonight.”
“I don’t want an overnight stay,” Garrett told him, and Wyatt chuckled softly, knowingly. He sat and waited, browsed the stores‘ website while Wyatt made the arrangements, and he wondered what she would like, what would be appropriate? And what she would and wouldn’t accept from him? He was hoping that maybe he would just know it when he saw it.
“I got us an appointment for 1:15 this afternoon, and our flight to Denver leaves at 1030.” Wyatt was looking at his watch. “It’s 09:30 now, we should go right to the airport. By the time
were checked in it’ll be time to board.”
Garrett put the car in gear, and they were headed for the airport. “Our flight home?” he asked.
“16:15, it’s an hour and a half each way, so we’ll get back to Santa Fe at 17:45, if nothing is
delayed.”
“Alright,” he nodded and called Harmony’s desk. He smiled when she answered it.
“Garrett Owens‘ office, how may I be of assistance?”
“Morning sweetheart,” he stated, he’d never called her from outside the office when she was at
her work desk before.
“… Garrett?” she’d questioned after a slight hesitation.
“I should think so. If anyone else is calling you sweetheart, I’ll beat them to death,” he told her. But then chuckled softly afterwards as if he was joking, when really he wasn’t.
“What can I do for you?” she chuckled right back.
“You can clear my schedule, send all my important meetings to Ryan and Dallas to handle, Laurie, if you can’t fit it into their schedule. Wyatt and I have an impromptu meeting to attend, and we need to go to Denver, Colorado, are heading for the airport now. We’ll be gone all day. Coming back to the apartment at about 7.”
“Oh… I don’t see anything like that on your schedule.” She murmured.
“Mm, not going to, impromptu. But something only I can handle.” He smiled to himself because it was true. No one else could buy an engagement ring for her. “Now while I have you, what night would you like to go out for dinner with me this week?”
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“Hmm.”
“Stop looking at my schedule and just pick a night. We’ll have dinner in the city. I’ll book a restaurant for seven.”
“Alright… any night you like…” she started to say, and then paused mid–sentence.
“Harmony, I asked you what night, please choose something on your own.”
“Alright.” She chuckled a little. “Wednesday night, it’s my birthday and a dinner out for it would
be nice.”
“What?” he blinked and then frowned. “Goddess, Harm I’m sorry, I didn’t realise, I’ll call you
back in a few minutes.” .
“Garrett, I don’t need…” she started to say.
“Yes you do.” He cut her off and clicked the line closed, looked at Wyatt. “Harmony’s birthday is on Wednesday, the 15th.” He huffed, annoyed with himself. He’d not committed it to his
memory, and it nearly got by him.
“That’s this Wednesday.” Wyatt frowned.
“Yes.” Garrett nodded and pulled the car into the airport parking lot. He had a lot to do, it seemed, and in a very short amount of time, he had to organise flowers, and didn’t even know what her favourite flower was. He needed to shop for a gift and didn’t know what to get her. “A full shopping trip is now needed.” Garrett murmured as he parked the car.
They got out and headed for the terminal. “Your mother could organise the flowers easily,” Wyatt stated.
“No, that’s not going to happen, I’ll do it myself, as a Mate should. Mother can buy Harmony her own gift, if she likes.” Though she’d not told him when Harmony’s birthday was, had it also slipped her mind? Or did she think that Garrett just already knew?”
Wyatt smiled at him. “So, your engagement dinner is now a birthday dinner.”
“Mm.” Garrett nodded. “Should I just combine the two or should I do a birthday dinner this
week and an engagement dinner next week?” he mused aloud.
“Honestly Garrett, I don’t see why you can’t do both on her birthday, just do the birthday gifts in the morning, and then she won’t suspect anything and attend the proposal in the evening, like you’ve planned to do.”
“Together but separate,” he smiled, and actually liked that idea, because he didn’t want to put off the proposal. And if he spoiled her with gifts in the morning, there would be no need to in
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the evening, likely he could keep it a secret from her and surprise her completely.
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