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And the style is for a younger sliht Or hadn't the woman noticed the deep braless-cut back?

"But what do you think of the color?"

Pink dress, red hair? Get a clue, Tessa thought

"It doesn't do you justice," a masculine voice said, and both women turned

Tessa's heart did a strange flip at the sight of Chase propped against the wide doorway, arht smile, so very masculine and seductive, practically siht, even in a simple blue T-shirt and very worn jeans

"I beg your pardon?" Miss Dewberry said waspishly, and Tessa's gaze shifted between her source of sleeplessness and her immediate source of a headache

"The color, I htly and pulled a darker, more somber shade of the same dress from the rack and handed it to the woer size "This was made for you"

Miss Dewberry sined, then swept into the dressing room

Chase's gaze shifted to Tessa

"Thank you," she said, then lowered her voice "She was really beginning to wear on me"

"You look exhausted"

"I a theers

"Is that because of rin

Her eyes narrowed "Yes You and your ihts What do you want, Mr Madison?"

"For you to take it easy, for one thing"

"Me andjust fine"

Until you, she was saying His gaze slipped over her, the dark beige top and cleanly pressed slacks, but it was her face that showed her fatigue Wisps of hair lay damp at her nape where she'd pulled the darkbeneath her eyes, and a grayish pallor tinted her skin

"Please leave my shop," she said, suddenly uncomfortable She bent to retrieve a box of shoes, yet when she straightened, she staggered Chase lurched, catching her, taking her weight