Sisters, Ink by Rebeca Seitz

Author:Rebeca Seitz [Seitz, Rebeca]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2008-08-04T20:00:00+00:00

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A FEW MINUTES later Tandy and Joy walked into Something from Sara.

“Tandy Sinclair!” Sara came from behind the counter and walked toward her, arms outstretched. “I can’t believe you took this long to come in here!”

Sara’s black hair was showing gray, and she’d pulled it back into her customary low ponytail.

“Hey, Sara.” Tandy embraced the slender woman.

“It’s been too long since I’ve seen your smiling face.”

“I know.” Tandy pulled back and looked into Sara’s face, seeing the lines the past three years had etched there. “I get so busy in Orlando, I don’t realize how long it’s been until I come home.”

“Well, it’s good to have you back. How long are you here for?”

“Just until the Iris Festival. I’ll probably go home on Sunday.”

“That soon?”

Tandy nodded. “It’s about as long as I can stay away.”

“Yes, I heard you were taking the legal world by storm. About to make partner, is the story that’s floating around here.”

“Oh, I don’t know about that.” Tandy stuffed her hands in her pockets. “But I’ve been fortunate at the firm.”

“Well—” Sara clasped her hands at her waist—“to what do I owe the pleasure today?”

“Tandy’s got a—”

Tandy cut Joy off mid-sentence. “I need a dress, Sara.” No need adding grist to the rumor mill.

“Special occasion?”

“Yes,” Joy said.

“No,” Tandy said at the same time.

“I see.” Sara looked from one sister to the other, missing nothing. “All right, let’s go look through the racks.” She turned and walked toward the back of the store, directing the girls to the far corner where mannequins were dressed in silk dresses of all types. “Would something like this work?” She fingered the ruffled edge of a pale green dress. Its bodice was cinched tightly around the mannequin’s waist, then exploded into layers of pleated chiffon.

“Hmm, a little too froufrou, I think.” Joy turned to her. “Tandy?”

Tandy nodded. “Yeah. Maybe something, I don’t know, simpler?”

Sara stepped over to another mannequin and held her hand up. “Better?” This one was a lavender sheath dress with short cap sleeves and a rounded neckline.

“Too fitted. I like the looseness of that one—” Tandy pointed back to the green dress—“just not the frilliness of it. And maybe a darker color?”

Sara held up a finger. “Ah, I’ve got the perfect thing. Be right back.” She turned and walked away, leaving Tandy and Joy to sift through the hangers of dresses.

“Wow, she has an eye for clothes,” Tandy said.

Joy nodded. “My closet is full of things she selected for me. You should see this place at prom time. It’s an absolute madhouse.”

“I can imagine.”

“Here we go!” Sara returned from the back of the store. In her arms was a midnight-blue dress. Designed to fall to the knees, it had a wide strap that crossed the chest and went over one shoulder. The fitted bodice gave way to a flowing skirt that Tandy could almost feel swishing against her legs as she danced with Clay. Sara held the dress up by the hanger and turned it to reveal a back that was brazen in its design.

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