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

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

she scolds, “some kind of

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staring at it. “I feel so bad, thinking about those

died over

hesitate, my eyes taking it in. It

before I can say anything, tucking my hands into the little pockets at the

them in the closet for another

face against the wrap, enjoying the

down, when I see Kent at the bottom standing with his arms crossed,

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. I don’t break eye contact though. Instead, I bite

him growl as his

calls, joining 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

on his shoulder.

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Gifts

Meeting the

good–looking my fiancé is. Both of our faces turn to Kent, though, as he snorts at us, shaking his head.

he says, nodding towards the door. “The cars are

of the house. On our way to meet my

little as we walk into the ballroom at the country club, impressed. This place has a grand, old–fashioned kind of charm, with freshly buffed fine oak floors,

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

only get a few steps into the

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

him down.

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– Meeting the

to…visit the bathroom,” I say, “before I take that on.”

with me, putting a hand

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

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