Gifts

Chapter 28 – Meeting the Family–1

Fiona gives me a tart little smack on the butt then, breaking my reverie and laughing as she hurries over to the jewelry box waiting on my vanity. I give her a weird look and cover my ass with my hands. “What is with people today,” I murmur.

She laughs again as she comes over to me, standing behind me so that she can hook the diamond solitaire around my neck on its slim silver chain.

“You got the ring?” she asks, smacking her gum.

“Oh, yeah,” I murmur, walking swiftly over to my bedside drawer and pulling it open. I reach towards the back, fishing it out and pushing it swiftly onto my left hand.

When I look at Fiona, she’s crossing her arms and shaking her head at me.

“A million–dollar diamond,” she says, “and you shove it in your bedside drawer?”

“Um,” I say, biting my lip in response. I hadn’t even thought about it. I look around, wondering where else I should have put

it

“Nevermind,” she says, laughing at me more.

“Fiona,” I say, taking in her vintage Juicy velour sweatsuit. “Won’t you please come? I’ll feel so much better with you there.”

comfortable here.”

I frown at her, knowing that something’s up. But, she knows more about this world than I do. If she doesn’t want to go, I’m not going to push her.

“Okay,” I say, sighing as I headed for the door.

“Wait wait!” she calls, unzipping a garment bag and revealing a gorgeous mink stole.

“Oh my god,” I say, walking back towards it. “It’s beautiful

“Yeah,” she says, admiring it. “Vintage. You lucky girl.”

goes to wrap it around my shoulders.

touch it. “Is

you,” she scolds, “some kind of

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feel so bad, thinking about those little animals –“

minks died over

hesitate, my eyes taking it in. It

the little

in the closet for another sixty years.

the room and down the stairs, brushing my face against

see Kent at the bottom standing with his arms crossed,

the mink close against my chest, pressing my thighs and knees together. I’m abruptly very aware of the shortness

him growl as his

stunning.” He gives me a big smile and I start

say, giving him a little punch on his

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Gifts

Meeting the

fiancé is. Both of our faces turn to Kent, though,

the

house. On our way to

This place has a grand, old–fashioned kind of charm, with freshly buffed fine oak floors, brass chandeliers, and sweeping views of the golf greens all along

merely saying “whiskey, neat,” and surveying the guests. However, Daniel ist more polite, nodding and smiling

few steps into the room before we are

over and reaching out a hand to take mine. “Is this our

him down.

Gifts

28 – Meeting the

“I think I’d like to…visit the bathroom,” I say, “before I

me, putting a hand on my back to show me the way.

frustrated as he steps in front of us. “I’ll take her,” he says, shaking his head. “You’ve been kind

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