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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

I’ll feel so much

says, coming to take my

got a headache, is all – I’ll be

comfortable here.”

knowing that something’s up. But, she knows more about this world

to push her.

sighing as I headed

a garment bag and

gorgeous mink stole.

walking back towards

says, admiring it, “Vintage. You lucky

she goes to wrap it

say, not wanting to touch

alive?”

she scolds, “some kind of tree

at it. “I feel so bad, thinking

those little animals

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says, taking my face in her hands. “It’s vintage. These minks died over sixty years ago. No new minks

eyes taking it in. It is so beautiful.

she says, wrapping it around me before

into the little pockets at the bottom which help me keep it

these little minks, to leave them in the closet

them out! Let the world admire them!”

the room and down the

feel of the soft fur

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