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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her vintage Juicy velour sweatsuit. “Won’t

come? I’ll feel so much

coming to take my arm and give me

I’ve got a headache, is all – I’ll be more

comfortable here.”

up. But, she knows more about this world than I do.

to push her.

as I headed for the

unzipping a garment bag

gorgeous mink stole.

walking

admiring it, “Vintage. You lucky girl.”

wrap it around my

touch it. “Is it…like real? Were those

alive?”

“some

staring at it. “I feel so

those little animals

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

eyes taking it in. It

on,” she says, wrapping it around me

pockets at the bottom which help

leave them in the

Take them out! Let

room and down the stairs,

the feel

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