"I was so lost," she spoke after a few minutes of uncomfortable silence. "You’d become my entire world, all because of these damned diamonds." She held up her left hand where the Rime Diamond ring still glinted on her finger. "Suddenly, you were gone with no return in sight. The pain was worse than anything I’d ever experienced. Some days, most actually, your loss felt worse than when I lost the child Ron and I had conceived." She stopped then, too choked up to continue.