Chapter 65

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

  1. it. I look around, wondering where else I should have put it-

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

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her vintage Juicy

so much

says, coming to take my arm and give me

smile. “You’ll be fine. I’ve got a

comfortable here.”

frown at her, knowing that something’s up. But, she knows more about this world than I do.

to push her.

I say, sighing as I headed for the

wait!” she calls, unzipping a garment bag and

gorgeous mink stole.

I say, walking

admiring it, “Vintage.

she goes to wrap it around my

I say, not wanting to touch

alive?”

“some kind

at it. “I feel so

those little animals

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“It’s vintage. These minks died over sixty years ago. No new minks died so you could look fabulous.”

taking it in.

wrapping it around me before

the little pockets at the bottom which help me keep it around my shoulders.

little minks, to leave them

out! Let the world admire them!”

the room and down the

the wrap, enjoying the feel of the soft fur against my cheek.

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