The Earrings My Husband Swore He’d Never Seen

My gold earrings were gone. To be specific, my husband’s grandmother’s gold earrings were gone. I had worn them to a cousin’s engagement dinner just last week and I was sure I had put them back in their small, velvet box in my dresser. So imagine my shock when, two days later, I saw my neighbor, a woman named Nisha, wearing them in the elevator. She had the audacity to tell me, “My boyfriend gifted me those earrings.”

I was taken aback, but I calmly told her that they were vintage family heirlooms, passed down from my husband’s grandma. She went quiet, but the damage was done. The moment I told my husband what had happened, his face turned pale. He tried to brush it off, mumbling things like “maybe they just look similar” and “you can’t accuse someone without proof.” However, I knew better. The way his voice cracked told me that he knew exactly which earrings I was talking about and that there was a much bigger story here than he was letting on.

These weren’t just any earrings. They were a precious gift from my mother-in-law, passed down from her mother-in-law. She had told me to wear them only on special occasions, so I kept them safely tucked away. The fact that they were now on Nisha’s ears was a mystery I was determined to solve.

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