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.

feel so much

says, coming to take my arm and give

a headache, is all – I’ll be more

comfortable here.”

she knows more about this world than

to push her.

I say, sighing as I

she calls, unzipping a garment bag and revealing a

gorgeous mink stole.

I say, walking back towards it. “It’s

says, admiring it, “Vintage. You lucky girl.”

to wrap

touch it. “Is it…like real?

alive?”

are you,” she scolds, “some kind of tree hugger?”

I protest, staring at it. “I feel so bad, thinking about

those little animals

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vintage. These minks died over sixty years ago. No new minks died

taking it in. It is

on,” she says, wrapping it around me before I

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

leave them in the closet for

Take them out! Let the world admire

the room and down the stairs, brushing

feel of the soft

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