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

not wanting to touch it. “Is it…like

are you,” she scolds, “some kind of

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it. “I feel so bad, thinking about those

my face in her hands, “It’s vintage. These minks died over sixty years ago. No new minks died so you could

it in. It

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

these little minks, to leave them in the closet for another

down the stairs, brushing my face

when I see Kent at the bottom

abruptly very aware of the shortness of my skirt. I don’t break eye contact though. Instead,

as his brow lowers, his eyes locked

father at the bottom of the stairs. “Wow, you look stunning.” He gives me a big smile and I start to move again, focusing on him

a little punch on his shoulder. “You look pretty cute yourself.”

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Gifts

Meeting the

my fiancé is. Both of our faces turn

he says, nodding towards the door.

that, we head out of the house. On our

old–fashioned kind of charm, with freshly

merely saying “whiskey, neat,” and

get a few steps into the room before

woman says, hurrying over and reaching out a hand to take mine. “Is this our darling lost Fav?”

him down.

Gifts

Meeting the

think I’d like to…visit

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

face frustrated as he steps in front of us. “I’ll take her,” he says, shaking his head. “You’ve

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