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“Sienna?”

She stopped, but she didn’t turn around “What now?”

“I have ain two hours It’s business, which , too”

She swung toward hio to a—”

“I want you ready to go in an hour and a half”

She looked down at herself There wasn’t ically beco, and now they bore alrime

His gaze followed hers He looked up, arainst thelike that”

“No” She s, have a great time, and—”

He said so she didn’t understand and probably was better off not understanding, and he hurried to where she stood, grabbed her arm and hustled her out the door

A while ago, she’d have said nothing this man could do would surprise her anymore

Taking her to Neiman Marcus blew that conviction out of the water

“May I help you, sir?”

If the sight of a gorgeousoversized soiled sweats was unusual, you’d never have known it from the sales clerk’s polite smile

“The lady needs sorimly

“Certainly, sir Of what type?”

“Of what…” Jesse scowled “So And fast” The clerk’s eyebrows rose and Jesse took a deep breath “Please,” he said, and s—made the clerk melt

She hustled Sienna into a dressing roo to be put into a pot

“I’ht,” Sienna said, “and I like earth tones”

Might as well talk to the wall

“A six,” the woman said, “pinks and blues” And she left

Five minutes later, Sienna put the sweats back on, pushed past the sputtering clerk and out of the dressing rooht hi and masculine, completely out of place and unco

“Jesse,” Sienna hissed He looked up “We need to find a different store I can’t afford anything here”