Bride in Blue by Christine Sterling

Author:Christine Sterling [Sterling, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Max sat in his office fingering the hem of the pair of pants. Double hemmed, he thought. He had never noticed before. The distributor he purchased them from didn’t tell him the difference. And although he wasn’t being charged $1 a pair, he still wanted to be a good steward of his money.

He wasn’t rich by any means, but he had enough to live comfortably, and provide for a wife. Wife. He was sure he didn’t want one, but the word kept coming up. Dismissing the thought, he pulled out the invoices.

Most of the stock for his store came from New York, Boston and Philadelphia. He had established relationships with those manufacturers from his days as a fabric buyer. Ironically, his skills for relationship building were never appreciated by his father once he finally returned to New York.

So, where he worked with all the other garment makers in New York he avoided that one area of town his father served. It wouldn’t have made a difference anyway. There was no room in his life for his father.

When he purchased the store and the fire started in Creede he lost most of the inventory at that time due to the smoke. The only reason he rebuilt and stayed in the small town, was that the dry goods specialized in work wear and the mercantile had a very poor selection of men’s clothing. He liked the slower pace as the town started to grow.

As the town increased in residents, more folks were appreciative of having a fine cut jacket or a pair of pants for church or the theater.

He started with a few jackets and moved up to pants, cravats and even hats. There had been a small notion display when he purchased the store, but he found a need to expand it when his customers would come back looking for a button to replace one that had fallen off. Now he carried everything from needles to thread wax.

Creede was growing and he’d like to grow with it. He had often thought of expanding the shop, but he didn’t have the expertise for sewing or custom-made clothing. He actually thought about adding a shoe shine stand and shave chair, but those plans always seemed off in the distance.

Maybe expanding to include a tailor shop would be exactly what he needed. If Cassie and her father could help as he built operations, it could be beneficial to them all. He would have help, and they would have a stipend and somewhere to stay.

He thought of Cassie and her delight over the tarts the day before. She really was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. There was such an air of innocence around her.

He guessed her to be not a day over twenty years of age. That meant he was ten years older than she.

He wondered why she wasn’t married. She certainly was beautiful, and his father taught him that that was half a requirement in a wife.

He didn’t want to think about his father.

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