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.”

to wrap it around my shoulders.

say, not wanting to touch it. “Is it…like real?

you,” she scolds, “some kind

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

she says, taking my face in her hands, “It’s vintage. These minks died over sixty years ago.

eyes taking it

tucking my hands into the little pockets at

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

and down the stairs, brushing my face against the wrap, enjoying the feel of the soft

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

chest, pressing 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 bite my bottom lip hoping – ridiculously – that

as his brow lowers,

“Wow, you look stunning.” He gives me

a little punch on his shoulder. “You look

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Gifts

Meeting the Family–2

just how good–looking my fiancé is. Both of our faces turn to Kent,

he says, nodding towards the door.

we head out of the house. On our way to meet my

grand, old–fashioned kind of charm, with freshly buffed fine oak

we enter, a waiter comes up to offer us champagne, Kent doesn’t make eye contact with him, merely saying “whiskey, neat,” and surveying the guests. However, Daniel ist more polite, nodding and smiling as he takes two glasses

steps into the room before we are bombarded with

says, hurrying over and reaching out a hand to

him down.

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28 – Meeting the Family–3

little. “I think I’d like to…visit the bathroom,” I

Kent says, turning with me, putting a hand on my

Daniel says, his face frustrated as he steps in front of us. “I’ll take her,” he says, shaking

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