“I don’t know.  Something from you could be dangerous.” 

“You’ll want this.  Will you meet me or not?”

“I’ll meet you.  Go and get whatever it is you think I’ll want from you and meet me in 10 minutes.

When Kendall comes from the elevators, there stands Chris with Erica right beside him.  Kendall steels herself and walks up to them with her head held high.

“Here.”  She hands him a jewelry box, “I’m sorry I caused Ryan so much pain.  I’m sorry I couldn’t love him the way he deserved to be loved.  You’ll never know or believe how sorry I am, but I have realized that this doesn’t belong to me.  It should belong to the woman he decides to love and marry and I have come to terms with the fact that it won’t be me.  So, if I leave this with you, will you see that he gets it back?”

Chris opens the box and stares at the ring in it, “Of course, I’ll return this to him, but what are you up to with this, Kendall?”

“I am not up to anything.  There’s no homing device, no strings attached.  I swear.  I just know that it should go back to Ryan and I hope you will see to it.”  Kendall holds back tears.

“I will.  I…Thank you.  It was the right thing to do, Kendall.  I’m glad you can see that.”

Chris pockets the ring.

“Thank you.  I know it is, but you should understand that it doesn’t make it any easier to do.  I…I should be going.” Kendall turns to leave.

“Kendall, it was…well, you did the right thing.” Erica speaks up from beside Chris.

“I know it was and I didn’t do it for your approval either, Mother.”  Kendall stalks into the elevator, “I did it for me…and for Ryan. Goodnight.”

Erica just looks on in shock as the doors close in front of Kendall.  Chris looks down at Erica and hugs her, “Can you believe that?”

“N-no.  I can’t, but it happened.  I don’t know why or how, but something good was just done by Kendall Hart.  Miracles will never cease.”

“It is truly an amazing occurrence.” Chris agrees as they leave the Inn returning to their new Penthouse.

Kendall stands outside her door, but instead of entering she turns and heads down to the bar.  She needs a drink after sitting through dinner and then confronting Erica and Chris.  It was the right thing to do and for once she did it for the right reasons.  She walks into the bar and strides up to the bar itself.

“What can I get you, Kendall?”  Aidan wipes the bar in front of her.

“I want a double vodka, ice and set up another behind it while you’re at it.”  Kendall sits down.

“Tough night…I saw when I came into work.  Was that your engagement ring you gave to Chris out there?”  He asks while sitting her order down for her.

“Hmmm…yeah it was.  I don’t think it’s right to keep it anymore.  I think I realized what you said that we didn’t love each other enough was right.  So, I did what I had to do.  IT wasn’t…wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be.”  She wipes her eyes, “It felt good sort of to be able to stand in front of them and know I was doing the right thing.”

“Yeah, I imagine that would feel pretty good.”  Aidan sets the second drink on the bar.

“It did, but it was hard.”  Kendall admits.

“I would like to ask you a question…you know friend to friend.”

“Go ahead.” Kendall empties the first glass and reaches for the second.

“What miraculous thing happened to make you realize what I said was true?  Did you meet someone?”

Kendall almost spits out her drink, “M-meet someone…no…I just came to realize a few things is all.” 

Aidan eyes her suspiciously, but drops it, “Sometimes revelations do just happen.”  He smiles as he turns to another customer.

“Yeah, you have no idea.”  She whispers as she downs her second drink.

TBC…