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.

not wanting to touch it. “Is it…like real? Were

“some kind of tree

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wrong,” I protest, staring at it. “I feel so bad, thinking about those little animals

minks died

hesitate, my eyes taking it in. It is so

say anything, tucking my hands into the little pockets at the

these little minks, to leave them in the closet for another sixty years. Take them out! Let the world

my face against the wrap, enjoying the

at the bottom standing with his arms crossed,

suddenly, I hunch my shoulders up towards my ears, clutching the mink close against my chest, pressing my thighs and knees together. I’m abruptly very aware of the shortness of my skirt.

swear I hear him growl as his brow lowers,

look stunning.” He gives me a big smile and I start to move again, focusing on him

punch on his shoulder. “You look

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reminded again just how good–looking my fiancé is. Both of our faces turn to Kent, though, as he snorts at

towards the door. “The

the house. On our

place has a grand, old–fashioned kind of charm, with freshly buffed fine

“whiskey, neat,” and surveying the guests. However, Daniel ist more polite, nodding and smiling as he takes two

into the room before

this her?” A plump woman says, hurrying over and reaching out a

him down.

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Meeting the Family–3

little. “I think I’d like to…visit the bathroom,”

with me, putting a hand on

front of us. “I’ll take her,” he says, shaking

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