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

you,” she scolds, “some kind of tree hugger?”

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wrong,” I protest, staring at it. “I feel so bad, thinking about those little animals –“

says, taking my 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

my hands into the little

minks, to leave them in the closet for another sixty years.

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

at the bottom standing with

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 –

growl as his brow lowers, his

calls, joining his father at the bottom of the stairs. “Wow, you look stunning.” He gives me a big smile and I start

punch on his

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Gifts

Meeting

gives me a charming, bashful smile, and I’m reminded again just how good–looking my fiancé is. Both of our faces turn to

he says, nodding towards the door. “The cars

we head out of the house. On

the ballroom at the country club, impressed. This place has a grand, old–fashioned kind of

and surveying the guests. However, Daniel ist more polite, nodding and smiling as he takes two glasses from the tray, passing one

get a few steps into the room before

over and reaching out a hand to take

him down.

Gifts

28 – Meeting the Family–3

to…visit the bathroom,” I

putting a hand on my

of us. “I’ll take her,” he says, shaking his head. “You’ve been kind of hovering all night –“

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