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Rated: 18+ · Short Story · Horror/Scary · #2043668
The wedding ring
"Will you marry me" Grant blurted as soon as Gertrude opened the door. As she stared in to Grant's eyes. His eyes held every dream and fantasy she had ever had. She saw their sons wedding, their grand daughters graduation from law school, she saw their great grand son boarding a shuttle for a field trip to alpha centauri. The last image she saw was grant placing an urn with her mother's name on it on a shelf next to three others like it. Then every thing went black

When she opened her eyes she was alone in bed wearing only a red diamond ring. When she turned on the tv the announcer said "...police are currently looking for Grant Allerton who is wanted for questioning in connection with the death of Gertrude smalls. The two were last seen together leaving the restoraunt Palermo's grill a high end estlishment in the Elysian Fields neighborhood of manhattan
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