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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in her vintage Juicy

please come? I’ll feel so

coming to take my arm

be fine. I’ve got a headache, is

comfortable here.”

more about this world than

to push her.

say, sighing as I headed for

unzipping a garment

gorgeous mink stole.

walking back towards it.

says, admiring it,

goes to wrap it

to touch it. “Is it…like real?

alive?”

she scolds, “some kind of tree hugger?”

I protest, staring at it. “I feel

those little animals

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

eyes taking it in. It is so

it around me before I

help me

leave them in the closet for another

them out! Let the world admire

the room and down the stairs,

against the wrap, enjoying the feel of the soft

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