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

wanting to touch it. “Is it…like real? Were those

scolds, “some

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it. “I feel so bad, thinking about those

minks died over sixty years ago. No new minks died so you could

it in. It is so

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

another

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

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

I’m abruptly very aware of the shortness of

hear him growl as his brow lowers,

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

I say, giving him a little punch on his shoulder. “You

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Meeting

again just how good–looking my fiancé is.

on,” he says, nodding towards the door.

On our

the ballroom at the country club, impressed. This place has a grand, old–fashioned kind of charm, with freshly buffed fine oak

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 from the tray, passing one to

only get a few steps into the room before we are bombarded with

woman says, hurrying over and reaching out a hand to take mine. “Is this

him down.

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28 – Meeting the

a little. “I think I’d like to…visit the

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

“I’ll take her,” he says,

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