When Cassey walked in the room was empty but she could hear the voices from the adjacent room.
She shook her head and placed Penny on the bed. The girl squirmed a little before finding a better position and slept soundly.
Cassey smiled as she looked at the sleeping posture of her daughter. It was just like him. She had always felt that Penny was just like her husband even when they had never met. The way they eat, sleep, their likes and dislikes. Her face softened as she ran a hand on the hair of the young girl..
She had always imagined how Tyrone would react when they met but she had never thought that it would happen this way! A tear escaped her eyes as the events of the past passed in front of her eyes.
"A handsome man is standing in front of our shop. Of my! Look at his strong arms. I am sure he is a knight! A knight!" Cassey tried to ignore the blabbering of her friends as she paid more attention to the gown in her hands.
The delivery was due today and she still needed to attach the lace on the gown.
"Oh! He is entering, he is entering!" she heard them howling and frowned. It would be better that she go to the other corner and work on her lace.
She picked up her things ready to leave the room when she heard them calling her name again and again. Since she was holding so many things in her hands, her vision was blocked and their voices were irritating him.
Just when Cassey thought she could ignore all of them, she bumped into one of them.
"Jane, if you want to go and stare at a handsome man with broad shoulders and biceps then go ahead. Who is stopping you? Go and drool over his chest and pray to god that he looks back at you. But I have work!" she scolded the young girl. Though she could not see the girl, she was sure that it must be her!
Jane was the only one who blocked Cassey's way and requested Cassey to do these foolshing things with her while others were too afraid of Cassey's glare to block her and irritate her.
"Jane!" she scolded as she tapped the ground with her feet waiting for the young girl to leave but when it did not happen, Cassey scowled.
Just when she was going to scold her again, she heard a velvety voice that froze him,
"I am here looking for a gown. Can you help me." her body froze and the box of pearls and lace and the dress fell on the ground.
Her green eyes met his golden one that was burning with fire. He was the one.. He was the one with the broad shoulders and strong biceps. The one with a hot figure and abs. Her face burnt as she remembered what she had blabbered just a moment ago.
The room was so silent that she was sure he had heard it all.
Oh lord! How she wished that she could dig a hole in the ground and hide in it until he leaves.
"That.. i.. I. that!" she held her dress tightly as his eyes kept burning her face.
"I want a dress for a wedding gift. I have no idea about the dresses so will you choose one for me and pack it?" he asked again with a calm face as if he had not heard her and they did not share an awkward moment.
Cassey was sure everyone wanted to assist this handsome hot hunk but after her outburst no one was going to come, so she nodded her head.
"Of course, if you can only tell me the height and basic measurements of the lady and which color you prefer, I will show you some good options." relieved that he was a gentleman who did not comment on her mistake, she got her composure back and smiled at him finally.
But her ears were still red and she still cursed herself for that foolish thing.
Just they wait! They were going to teach all of them a good lesson later.
"She is this small." he pointed at his shoulders and Cassey who was already 5'4 had to raise her head high to know about the height and yet the man called it small.
She shook her head and waited for him to explain further but.. That was it! He stared at her back as if asking what else she wanted when Cassey shook her head.
"Yes, of course, please come with me." She gave a professional smile as she pointed at another staff member to pick up the mess they had created and took the hot man with her under the envious glances of the other staff.
She took out some pretty gowns from the racks and showed them to him.
"This is our latest spring collection. If you tell me what kind of dress you are looking for or what your budget is, I will be able to help you better. Sir." Cassey eyed the man again, he looked rich but she could not be sure.
Even the rich were miser sometimes.
"Money does not matter.'' His velvety voice was always able to melt everything around him, but when he looked at dresses, his perfect eyebrows twisted into a frown, "but I have no idea about the likes of a woman. Can you choose one for me?"
"Me!" she pointed at herself, unsure if she should do it!
"Yes, since I think you have a good eye for the figures of men and women!"
"........" he said with such a straight face that she felt herself freezing then and there while her body burnt into fire.
"That.. I did not.. I mean…" he looked at her red face and his lips arced upwards.
"I see you sutter whenever I ask you about measurements. You were not stuttering when you were praising me earlier!"