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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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in her

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

says, coming to take my arm and give

be fine. I’ve got a headache, is all

comfortable here.”

more about this

to push her.

I headed for the door.

a garment bag and revealing

gorgeous mink stole.

god,” I say, walking back towards it.

says, admiring it, “Vintage. You lucky

goes to wrap it around

I say, not wanting to touch

alive?”

are you,” she scolds, “some kind

it. “I feel so

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 died so you could look

my eyes taking it in. It is

it around me before I can

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

them

them out! Let the world admire

the room

feel

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