Binding Moon (Once Upon a Monster Book 2) by Emma Hamm

Author:Emma Hamm [Hamm, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-12-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

“If you would stand still for a few more moments, my lady...”

She hated that he called her that. She was no one’s lady and this old man seriously needed to stop annoying her. Although, she couldn’t move either. What did he think she was going to do? Willingly poke herself with a hundred needles?

Luna couldn’t breathe because there were at least twenty needles poking around her chest like some kind of demented corset. And then there were the ones around her hips, supposed to give her a fuller figure, the man had claimed. The horrible points felt more like a punishment for not being curvy enough to satisfy.

He’d shoved ones longer than her fingers into the base of the dress. The dressmaker had made it very clear that every item he’d brought with him wasn’t cut yet, so they should all fit her figure perfectly.

This was the last one. The very last dress he’d brought and he could only take the hem up enough to roll it. Hopefully, the Earl’s aunt wouldn’t notice how shoddy the craftsmanship was.

But at least it was beautiful. The emerald velvet would hold on to her figure better than other fabrics. The heart-shaped neckline would hopefully hide how broad her shoulders were, and how large her arms were. At least he hadn’t added any other fabric anywhere else. Though she would have to be very careful moving her arms or she’d rip the sleeves right off the dress.

Blowing out a long breath, she ignored the burning in her arms from having them raised this long. “Aren’t there stands or something I could put my arms on?”

“A lady of your talents surely has no need to rest her arms after only a few moments of a fitting.”

Yes, she absolutely did. And just because she had bigger arms than most women didn’t mean she could keep them raised at her sides for hours. “If you really think about it, my arms weigh more than the other ladies you work on. So if you don’t mind getting that stand...”

“You’ll stay put the way you are. I’m almost done, anyway.” He took the last pin out of his mouth and pointed at her with it. “Now stop moving, or I’ll have to start all over again. Do you hear me?”

Why was this dressmaker the most terrifying man she’d ever met? He was tall and thin like a reed in a riverbed. His hair stuck straight up in little white tufts, while his horribly dark eyes melted his pupils into his irises. She’d never seen a man who looked like him before. Too pale. Too ghostly.

Maybe he was really a ghost. She’d have to ask Beatrix if there were any in this house when all was said and done.

“There, I’m done,” he muttered before straightening. “You are my most difficult client yet, my lady, but I do believe I will make you the belle of the ball.”

“I don’t want to be the belle of any ball,” she replied. “I just want to look like I pass.

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