Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

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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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I say, taking in her vintage

come? I’ll feel so much better

coming to take my arm and give me

a headache, is all – I’ll be

comfortable here.”

more about this world than I do. If

to push her.

as I headed

she calls, unzipping a garment

gorgeous mink stole.

walking back towards it. “It’s beautiful-”

says, admiring it, “Vintage.

wrap it around my

not wanting to touch

alive?”

she scolds, “some kind of

wrong,” I protest, staring at it. “I

those little animals

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

it in. It is

says, wrapping it around me

my hands into the little pockets at the bottom which help me keep it around my

leave them in the

Take them out! Let the world admire them!”

out of the room and down

the feel of the