Pete couldn't stop thinking about the gift as he walked from his office to the conference room.
He had never spent this much time thinking about a gift before.
He had bought gifts before. Expensive ones. Convenient ones. Things that were appreciated, used, and eventually forgotten.
But for Evelina, he knew it couldn't just be that.
He had thought about flowers. Beautiful roses with baby's breath fillers.
But flowers felt too easy. Jewelry would feel… misplaced. Lina wasn't a woman who needed to be dazzled.
She needed to be seen.
To be loved in an unconventional way.
So he had settled on something personal. Something she could reach for easily. Something with her name on it.
The image of her opening it flashed through his mind, and he smiled to himself, the corner of his mouth lifting with quiet pride.
