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Chapter One

Bria

Maxie warehouse-like area It’s a building off to the side of the ical place filled with rows and rows and rows of clothes They hang everywhere, stacked to the ceiling, and there arein piles all over the room

Sunlight filters in through the horizontal slit s set high up in the exposed ceiling, shafting through the rafters

Maxi in the light for a h she finds the very presence of uncleanliness disturbing She’s a tall, thin, sharp woman, and it’s difficult not to let my heart hammer in my chest as she slowly turns to me

She’s one of the ners in the industry She’s worked in Hollywood for over forty years

And I’m…

The eighteen year old who only got this job because of a work-for-orphans prograet us out of the orphanage and into the working world

And heck, yeah, this job really suits me

A steaeneral do-whatever-she-says person for Maxi Jeffries

I’ve always loved the Victorian era And I’ve always loved dressing up

Plus, the star of the movie?

My belly tingles just thinking about hi silver hair, and alpha wolf eyes He’s forty-three, richer than God, and famous all over the world

He’d never want me

Focus

I can’t letata black business suit, stylish shiny shoes,me feel frumpy in my chain store pants and my second-hand jacket

“We need six burly Steaives his speech All of these h, my dear They need to look capable They need to look like the sort ofunder the illustrious Co time, you see His most seasoned men”

I nod, , even as the size of the task looe in my mind There are so, so, so many clothes in here

Sorting through the to be a mammoth effort

“Do you understand?”