Chapter 53

Chapter 53 Brooklyn

Jayde 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 onto my left hand.

When I look at Jayde, 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 it. I look around, wondering where else I should have put it-

she says,

"Won't you please come? I'll feel so much

smile.

can tell that something's up. But she knows more about this world than I do, and she is her own woman. If she doesn't want to go, I'm not going to

as I head for the

calls, unzipping a garment bag and revealing a gorgeous cashmere

say, walking back towards

says, admiring it.

wrap

say, not wanting to touch it.

"Don't," she says pointedly.

nod. Just one more

it around me before I can say anything. "It would be an insult to all the little old ladies who

head out of the room and down the stairs, brushing my face against the wrap, enjoying the feel of the soft cashmere against my

at the bottom standing

at me.

I hunch my shoulders up towards my ears, clutching the stole close against my chest, pressing my thighs and

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