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.”

goes to wrap it around my shoulders.

say, not wanting to touch it. “Is

scolds, “some kind of tree

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feel so bad,

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

taking it in. It is

she says, wrapping it around me before I can say anything, tucking my hands into the little pockets at the bottom which help

them in the closet for another sixty years. Take

face against the wrap, enjoying the feel of the soft fur against my

the bottom standing with his arms crossed, his feet apart. Staring at me.

against my 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.

growl as his brow lowers, his

me a big smile and I start

a little punch on his

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Gifts

– Meeting the Family–2

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

he says, nodding towards the door. “The cars are

house. On our way to meet

the country club, impressed. This place has a grand, old–fashioned kind of charm, with freshly buffed fine oak floors, brass chandeliers, and sweeping views of the golf greens all

waiter comes up to offer us champagne, Kent doesn’t make eye contact with him, merely saying “whiskey, neat,” and surveying

into the

says, hurrying over and reaching out a hand to take mine.

him down.

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like to…visit the

hand on my back to show me the way.

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

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