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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say, taking in her vintage Juicy

come? I’ll feel so much

Fay,” she says, coming to take

got a headache,

comfortable here.”

that something’s up. But, she knows more about this world than I do. If she doesn’t want to go, I’m

to push her.

I headed for the

wait!” she calls, unzipping a garment

gorgeous mink stole.

I say, walking back towards it.

it,

wrap it around my shoulders.

say, not wanting to touch it. “Is it…like

alive?”

she scolds, “some kind

I protest, staring at it. “I feel so

those little animals

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

my eyes taking it in. It is so beautiful.

it around me

at the bottom which help me keep it around my shoulders. “It would be an insult

to leave them in the closet for another sixty

Let

the room and down

the wrap, enjoying the feel of the soft fur

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