Made for Hire by Kyoko Church & Esmeralda Greene & Amélie Hope & Annabeth Leong & B.Z.R. Vukovina

Author:Kyoko Church & Esmeralda Greene & Amélie Hope & Annabeth Leong & B.Z.R. Vukovina
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Kyoko Church, Esmeralda Greene, Amélie Hope, Annabeth Leong, B.Z.R. Vukovina
Publisher: Sweetmeats Press
Published: 2013-11-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

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The Fitting

We stood in the private fitting chamber; Ella dressed only in the elegant lingerie she would wear beneath her wedding dress, and both of us watching her reflection in the freestanding mirrors.

Ella looked terrified.

“What’s wrong?”

“Oh…nothing…”

“It’s not nothing if you’re looking like that.” I put my hands on her shoulders. “You’re shaking.”

She shook her head and closed her eyes, “It’s okay. I’m just feeling a little…you know…ugly.”

“Ugly!? Dear god, woman, have you seen yourself? You are the kind of bride that makes men want to bend you over and sneak beneath your train. The kind that makes women want to claw your eyes out!”

Ella looked at me and smiled, but there was doubt in her eyes. In my career, I’d witnessed many a bride-to-be grapple with all manner of uncertainty as their wedding day approached. But I also knew that this bride-to-be was strong and beautiful and brave and she had absolutely nothing to worry about.

“You don’t see what we see when you look in the mirror,” I said quietly, fixing a stray tendril of hair back into place within Ella’s loose chignon. “You see ugliness? An undesirable person?”

Ella nodded mutely, unable to look at me.

“Well, we see beauty. We see an amazing woman who is already the object of so many people’s desires. Don’t you know how many people want you? Don’t you know how much they want you?”

Ella shook her head, but remained silent.

“Don’t you know how much I want you?”

And I did. I wanted her so much. I wanted to wipe away her tears of sadness, to brush the hair from her face, tucking it behind her ear so she couldn’t hide anymore, to run my fingertips over her lips before leaning in to kiss them sweetly. Looking at Ella standing there, so vulnerable and full of doubt, I longed to clasp her hand, to hold it tightly as I brushed my lips to hers, to show her how worthy of affection and adoration she was.

“Look up.”

I stood behind her, my heart breaking at the struggle I saw on her face as she was unable to look in the glass. Moving closer, I rested my hands on her hips and placed my lips to her ear. “Breathe,” I whispered. “Breathe...breathe...breathe.”

Ella slowly lifted her head and opened her eyes. I rubbed her shoulders lightly, trying to comfort her. Bringing my hands down to her waist again, I rested them on her hips, slipping my fingers beneath the band of her lingerie. Her skin was warm and she shuddered just a little as I touched her. To see herself so exposed and from every angle was unnerving for Ella, and all I wanted to do was to soothe her doubt and quell her fear.

I ran my hands slowly upwards, over the cups of her cream satin balconette bra. “Look,” I said and she fixed her gaze upon her reflection. “Watch.”

I trailed my fingers across her back, paying attention to the marks from previous play-dates. I unclasped her bra and eased it from her body.

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