Always the same the guys think with their dick and the girls don't have any confidence and let themselves be pushed around. And even if he would have kept his late wife's ring there's nothing wrong with that...
Do you have a link to the novel? I searched for it but I haven't found it... Lynx
I don't believe it got translated or got pick up by a translation team, yet. so only the Raw is available on some specific pay to read websites. So no, sorry !
He probably had some sort of amnesia and those guys took advantage of that.