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.

I’ll feel so

Fay,” she says, coming to take my arm

I’ve got a headache, is all – I’ll

comfortable here.”

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

to push her.

I

wait!” she calls, unzipping a garment bag and revealing a

gorgeous mink stole.

my god,” I say, walking back towards it. “It’s

says, admiring it, “Vintage.

to wrap it

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

alive?”

“some kind

wrong,” I protest, staring at it. “I feel

those little animals

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These minks died over sixty years ago.

taking it in. It

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

which help me keep it

to leave them in the closet for another sixty

Let the world

room and

wrap, enjoying the feel of the soft fur against my

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