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"Exactly," he comes back with We enter a small hallway near the stairs and walk to the end of it and turn a corner to find a double door It has a keypad and Ronin punches in his code, which I notice is the saave me the first day I met him

"That code of yours works a lot of stuff around here You should rins and pushes against the frosted glass until the doors begin to open automatically He waves asp

"Welco roo you want froest area where racks are overfloith clothes There aze goes to the smaller section, "are for the next week’s shoot And these right here," he says, pointing to a large chest of thin drawers, "are undergarments These are all new, so take what you want"

"Am I allowed?" I ask, stunned

"Allohat?"

"To take this stuff"

"I just said you could"

"But won’t Antoine or Elise get irls, Rook That do like an idiot thisof the Closet?"

He bows "The one and only"

"And you have spare panties for oof"

"I don’t knohere to start, honestly I’ve not had a lot of opportunities to shop"

He looks over atbench in the middle of the roo to ask, because I know you’ve got things you’re not about to reveal to me, not after three days anyway But I’d just like you to know, that is not right Whatever you’ve been through, whatever it was that made you so… sad I’d just like to say you deserve better"

I sn some old hurt and mumble out a, "Thank you"

Chapter Fifteen - RONIN

"You’re welco clothes today This closet is bursting with shit so I’ll tell you what, you look through the bras and panties and I’ll bring you clothes I have excellent taste anyway"

I go off to find her sorab a pretty nightie just in case, and continue on and find the casual wear

Rook’s clothes aren’t that bad I mean, she looks hot as hell to me I don’t look at that shit at all Now her body, that’s soirls every day Beautiful girls The irls in the world, actually And I know that when they wear pretty things, they feel pretty

So I get Rook just about every pretty thing I can find, whether she needs it or not I flip through the rack of jeans for sorab several pairs SheI’ve seen her in, and besides, I like her in jeans and I’et, she can corab so, but also sos, a few skirts, sorinning as I round the corner and coo"