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, laughing

say, taking in her vintage Juicy velour sweatsuit. "Won't you please come? I'll feel

coming to take my arm and give me a smile. "You'll be fine. I've got a headache, is

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

I head for the

unzipping a garment bag and revealing a

I say, walking back towards it.

she says, admiring it.

to wrap it around my

not wanting to touch it. "What

"Don't," she says pointedly.

Just one more thing to

all the little old ladies who wove this out of Italian wool. This thing

of the room and down the stairs, brushing my face against the

down, when I see Aden at the bottom standing with his arms

at me.

my shoulders up towards my ears, clutching the stole close against my chest, pressing my

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