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

it. “Is it…like real? Were those alive?”

scolds, “some kind of tree

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it. “I feel so bad, thinking about

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

hesitate, my eyes taking it in.

the little pockets at the bottom which help me keep it around my shoulders. “It would

leave them in the closet for another sixty years.

I head out of the room and down the stairs, brushing my face against the wrap,

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

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 contact though. Instead, I bite my bottom lip hoping – ridiculously – that

growl as his

his father at the bottom of the stairs. “Wow, you look stunning.” He gives me a big

I say, giving him a little punch on

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Gifts

Meeting the Family–2

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

he says, nodding towards the door. “The cars

house. On our

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

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 from the tray,

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

over and reaching out a hand to take mine. “Is this our darling

him down.

Gifts

Meeting the

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

with me, putting a hand on my back to

“I’ll take her,” he says, shaking his

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