Gifts

Chapter 28 – Meeting the Family–1

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 it. I look around, wondering where else I should have put

it

“Nevermind,” she says, laughing at me more.

“Fiona,” I say, taking in her vintage Juicy velour sweatsuit. “Won’t you please come? I’ll feel so much better with you there.”

comfortable here.”

I frown at her, knowing that something’s up. But, she knows more about this world than I do. If she doesn’t want to go, I’m not going to push her.

“Okay,” I say, sighing as I headed for the door.

“Wait wait!” she calls, unzipping a garment bag and revealing a gorgeous mink stole.

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

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

she goes to wrap

not wanting to touch it. “Is it…like real? Were those alive?”

you,” she scolds, “some kind

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

taking my face in her hands, “It’s vintage. These minks died over sixty years ago. No new minks

it in.

hands into the little pockets at the bottom which help me keep it around my

them in the closet for another sixty years. Take them out! Let the world admire them!”

the room and down the stairs, brushing my face against the wrap, enjoying the

Kent at the bottom standing with his

my thighs and knees together. I’m abruptly very aware of the shortness of my skirt. I don’t break eye contact though. Instead, I

growl as his brow

of the stairs. “Wow, you look stunning.” He gives me a big smile and I start to move again, focusing on

a little punch on his shoulder.

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Gifts

28 – Meeting the Family–2

I’m reminded again just how good–looking my fiancé is.

the door. “The cars are waiting.”

head out of the house. On our

of charm, with freshly buffed fine oak floors, brass chandeliers, and sweeping views of the golf greens all along the

neat,” and surveying the

the room

her?” A plump woman says, hurrying over and reaching out a hand to

him down.

Gifts

Meeting the Family–3

I’d like to…visit the bathroom,” I say, “before

turning with me, putting a hand on my back to show

“I’ll take her,” he says, shaking his head. “You’ve been kind of

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