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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I say, taking in her

I’ll feel so

baby Fay,” she says, coming to take my arm

fine. I’ve got a

comfortable here.”

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

to push her.

I say, sighing as I headed

unzipping a garment bag

gorgeous mink stole.

walking back towards it. “It’s

it, “Vintage. You lucky

goes to wrap it around my shoulders.

to touch it.

alive?”

she scolds, “some kind of tree

at it. “I feel so bad, thinking

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

hesitate, my eyes taking it

around me before

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

them in the closet for

Take them out! Let

the room and down the stairs,

wrap, enjoying the feel of the soft fur against

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