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.”

she goes to wrap it around my

not wanting to touch it. “Is it…like

you,” she scolds, “some kind of

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it. “I feel so bad,

my face in her hands, “It’s vintage. These minks died over sixty years

it in. It

my hands into the little pockets at the bottom which help me keep it around my shoulders. “It would be

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

down the stairs, brushing my face against the wrap, enjoying the feel of the soft fur

when I see Kent at the bottom standing with his

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

I hear him growl as his brow lowers, his eyes locked

his father at the bottom of the stairs. “Wow, you look stunning.” He gives me a big smile and I start to move again, focusing on him as I come to his side.

a little punch on his shoulder. “You look pretty cute yourself.”

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Gifts

28 – Meeting the

fiancé is. Both of our faces turn to Kent, though, as he snorts at

nodding towards the door. “The cars

On our way to meet

a grand, old–fashioned kind of charm,

we enter, a waiter comes up to offer us champagne, Kent doesn’t make eye contact with him, merely saying “whiskey, neat,” and surveying the guests. However, Daniel ist more polite, nodding and smiling as

few steps into the room before we are bombarded with attention.

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

him down.

Gifts

– Meeting

I say, hesitating a little. “I think I’d like to…visit the bathroom,” I say, “before

with me, putting a hand on my back to show

front of us. “I’ll take her,” he says, shaking his head. “You’ve

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