I did not know what that smile was at the time. I thought it was him being kind to me.
"Actually, I brought you a wedding present."
Ramsey stopped. The laugh went off halfway through it.
"A present?"
"Yeah." Abel nodded at the doors. "I'll go and get it."
He was gone about five minutes, and I stood there on my own with Ramsey and Noelle and about twenty people, and those five minutes were the longest of that entire day.
By the time he came back through those doors Ramsey was smiling again, and had said two more things to the people around him, because he had decided Abel was in on it.
He came back carrying a large cardboard box. Not wrapped. No ribbon. Not even taped shut across the top.
He put it down on the table directly in front of Ramsey, next to the wrapped presents, and stood back.
