Cinderella's New York Fling by Cara Colter

Author:Cara Colter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-04-06T01:59:42+00:00

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Jamie waited until Jessica had closed the change room door after Meredith left, then got up from his chair quietly and followed the sales associate out into the store.

“Can I get you to take the tags off things before you bring them in to her? I want her to get what she wants, and not be influenced by the price.”

Jamie told himself that giving this instruction to the sales associate was why he had stayed. But it was a lie. There was something about being a witness to Jessica discovering some of the treasures of being in New York that he found himself unable to resist.

“At the end, if it could add up to her insurance settlement that would be great.” He named the amount. “I’ll look after the difference, if you can slip me a second bill.”

What on earth was he doing?

“Love that!” Meredith said, grinning at him, a delighted coconspirator. She held up two dresses. “Which one do you think she would pick?”

One dress was a subtle gray pinstripe with straight lines and a longish skirt. The other was a sundress style with a full skirt. It was white with huge red poppies all over it.

“She’d go for the gray,” he said. “Very businesslike.”

“That’s what I thought, too,” Meredith said, and with a wide wink at him, hung the gray dress back up on the rack. “This other dress can be for business, too, with the right sweater and shoes. What do you think of this one?”

And so, somehow he ended up being on Jessica’s personal shopping team. It was all fun and games until they came to the underwear section.

Meredith, unabashed, held up a pair of shapeless beige panties. “What do you think?”

He didn’t want to be thinking about Jessica’s panties, obviously!

“This is what she told me she wanted,” Meredith said with barely concealed scorn.

Somehow, it made him feel oddly sad for Jessica that she didn’t celebrate her femininity. On the other hand, if she did? Danger zone! He had to remove himself from this situation.

Meredith smiled at him, held up another pair.

He felt his mouth go dry. Thankfully, his phone pinged. He glanced at it. Not at all urgent. But he wagged the phone at Meredith, anyway. “I have to take this.”

“Chicken,” she mouthed at him, adding a generous supply of froth and film to the already gigantic pile over her arm. “Okay,” she sang, “this will get us started.”

You had to like a woman who loved her job.

“I haven’t had a chance to tag these yet,” Meredith said to Jessica as she went through the door of the change room. “I’m raiding our brand-new summer stock, just for you.”

“But I need to know—”

The door closed on Jessica’s protest, which Meredith must have managed to assuage, because Jessica emerged from the change room in the first outfit. It was the poppy-covered white sundress and she looked absolutely stunning.

If he was not mistaken, she had makeup on. It was subtle and yet the changes to her face were extraordinary.

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