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 it around my shoulders.

touch it. “Is it…like real? Were

you,” she scolds, “some kind of

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

minks died over sixty

hesitate, my eyes taking it in. It is

anything, tucking my hands into the little pockets at the bottom which help me keep

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

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

I see Kent at the bottom standing with his

hunch my shoulders up towards my ears, clutching the mink close 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

swear I hear him growl as his brow lowers,

He gives me a big smile and I start to move

say, giving him a little punch on his shoulder. “You look pretty cute

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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 of our

nodding towards the door. “The

of the house. On our way to

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

neat,” and surveying the guests. However, Daniel ist more polite, nodding and smiling as he

the room before we are bombarded

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

him down.

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– Meeting the Family–3

say, hesitating a little. “I think I’d like to…visit

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

steps in front of us. “I’ll take her,” he

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