On Engagement Day, He Forced His Sweetheart's Ring on Me

The day before the engagement party, I went to the jeweler to pick up our wedding rings. The clerk told me the bride's ring had already been collected that morning by Arnold. That ring had my name engraved on the inside band. Tomorrow, on the stage, he was supposed to slide it onto my finger himself. Ten minutes later, his childhood friend Lucinda posted on her social media feed. In the photo, she stood in front of the flower wall in the banquet hall I had booked, my ring on her ring finger.