Tailor Troubles by Wildrose Monroe

Author:Wildrose, Monroe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Teapots and Stolen Souls Publishing
Published: 2023-12-12T00:00:00+00:00

I had stopped him just before the lover’s scene. I’d held out as long as possible as we were now caught in a battle of which one of us would admit to discomfort first. Though perhaps that was all in my mind, and he was as relaxed as he seemed.

My breath hitched when he got to the chapter’s beginning, and the couple started caressing. The elven lord backed his bride against an ornate bookcase, his hand climbing until it rested gently around her throat. Maxwell’s voice flowed on like nothing was happening. There was no audible change in his tone, but I realized I had stopped working, my scissors halfway through a piece of fabric, unmoving, my breathing coming slightly quicker than normal.

I dropped the scissors and abruptly stated that I needed to go purchase something for the dress. When I turned to look at Maxwell, he had that smile on again. I was not pleased with his smile of victory, because he had won. I shooed him away, and he said he’d see me at book club, and I wish the challenge in his tone didn’t thrill some part of me.

So I walked along the dock that led to the ferry out of town, wondering what in the two suns I was thinking.

I was supposed to make a dress to trade for my little brother. A gown the likes I had never made before, and here I was, mooning after some bookshop owner as if I was a schoolgirl with her very first crush. I didn’t have time to be distracted, though… it had been nice to share something of myself with someone else here.

For the time I had lived in Fairvein, I had avoided sharing any bit of myself with the townspeople. Maxwell certainly wasn’t wrong about that. I was closed up tighter than the gates of Valen.

I’d told no one of my past, of the family that I clawed my way out of. Nothing of how I had been raised a thief–to rob people blind. My father was thrilled to have such a pretty daughter that he could use to dupe and trick the unsuspecting fools. I was good at it. My large brown eyes and freckles garnered tenderness and compassion, especially at a young age. A fact that my parents exploited thoroughly.

When I was seventeen, I tried to leave. Even wrote my dad a letter telling him I didn’t want to be a part of that life anymore. However, before I could board the ferry to cross Viper Lake, he found me and dragged me back. For three years, I struggled to save up enough money without him knowing. I’d learned how to sew from my grandmother, but I perfected the skill by candlelight in the deep night, the only time I wasn’t watched.

On my twentieth birthday, I left. Domenic had caught me sneaking out my window with a duffle full of the meager possessions I cared to take. I’d kissed him on the forehead, and he hadn’t called out for Mom and Dad.

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