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 velour sweatsuit. “Won’t

please come? I’ll feel so much better with you

coming to take my arm and give

I’ve got a headache, is

comfortable here.”

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

to push her.

I headed

a

gorgeous mink stole.

my god,” I say, walking back towards it.

it, “Vintage. You

to wrap it around my shoulders.

touch

alive?”

she scolds, “some

protest, staring at it. “I

those little animals

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

hesitate, my eyes taking it in. It is so

around me before

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

little minks, to leave them in

them out! Let

the room and down

the feel of the soft fur

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