Saturday Snippet: It Is For You I Wait

This snippet comes from 

Otto's Offer 

Book 3

in both the multi-author Lockets & Lace series

and in the author's own Atwell Kin series

          The jeweler turned back to Otto. “Something I have to show you. A good price I offer if you wish to buy.” He leaned down and unlocked one of the cabinets below the shelf on the counter with the thick glass covering. He brought out a gold locket shining with newness and handed it to Otto.

          Otto brought his palm closer to his face to better study the design etched on the front of the heart-shaped locket. He had seen lockets before, but mostly they were oval or round, and they tended to be larger. Yet, from the heft of the small ornament in his hand, he could tell the jeweler had not skimped on the amount of gold used. Filigree scrollwork surrounded the floral design in the center.

          Otto turned the heart over. On the back, bordered top and bottom by etchings of the same design as the front, was an inscription. “All my love, Otto.”

          Otto looked into the face of the man who had not said a word since he had handed him the gold locket. “It looks like it was made for another.”

          The man nodded. “Ya. A customer with same name paid me to make for wedding gift. He was soon to marry. Later, he comes to me, very sad—what you say, in mourning. With the fever his sweetheart died. His money he asked me to return. I give him most.”

          “Could you not have redone the locket to take the name out?”

          The jeweler nodded. “Ya. Each time I get it out to take out name, something tells me, wait. When I hear you speak German and know your name, I know it is for you I wait.”

 

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