Piper wondered if that was because Brandon was too young or if it was because Aspen was too young to emerge fully. Or if pushing forward in Whistler, had been too much for the boy’s wolf.
“He’s alright though? You’re alright?” her.
“Yes, stop talking and trying to make me loose my breath.” Brandon shot at her, then grinned “When he wakes up, he said we’ll beat you.”
Piper and Harper both snorted at him, fully amused now. “Good luck.” they laughed at him “Challenge accepted.”
“You’re on mum.” He grinned right back at Brandon got off the treadmill first with a huff, which had made her laugh. The morning was brisk, but sunny. They ate out on the deck of the dining room, which overlooked the woods of the Emerald Estates Park, and then she took him to school herself instead of him catching the bus.
Came home to work in her home studio on the 2nd floor till her appointment at 5pm this afternoon, where she dropped Brandon off at one of his friends’ homes to hang out until she was done working. He didn’t mind, happy to hang out and play soccer in the back yard till she came back to pick him up.
Arrived the same way she did the previous day, via the back entrance and courtyard, strolled up the stairs and let herself into her office, called lzzy to let her know she was in. Saw Izzy walk into her office and look right at her, a deep frown on her face.
“What is it, lzzy?”
“Did you get into a fight yesterday on your way out?” she asked very directly.
“What?” Piper asked, shocked that she knew this. How could she know this?
“Mr Yummy came into the store today, this morning and tried to sweet talk me into giving up your home address.” Izzy said as she sat down in the chair on the other side of Pipers desk.
Piper was staring at her now, goddess had the pack’s Gamma charmed all of her information out of lzzy? “Did you tell him lzzy?” Piper asked, quite concerned.
“What? No! Of course, not Piper. I really just wanted to punch him in his handsome face most of the time.” she shook her head “but then he told me. You got into a fight and were injured Piper. I was really worried.”
“Did you tell him after that?”
“No!” she shook her head” I know you would have called me right! If something happened to you.
“Of course I would have.” Piper lied to her “Do look injured to you?” she stood up and even turned around so that Izzy could see all of her.
“No” lzzy nodded “they’re playing dirty now. I don’t like it, Piper, and I don’t think they are going to leave you alone either.”
Piper sighed, it didn’t seem that way at all “Mr Yummy?” she wondered allowed not many could resist that man’s charms, “You didn’t get charmed by him? Like at alI?”
“No, his attitude.” she shook her head. “So super sure of himself. And what the hell is with that accent? That suddenly rolls out of him… l just,” she shrugged, “got ticked off at him, seemed to surprise him too, that I wasn’t all into him. Rolled my eyes at him at one point and he just stood and stared at me very shocked.”
“Hmm.” Piper smiled, though “I bet it did, that man is better with the ladies than anyone in Drake Industries.” it was very interesting that lzzy was immune to Edwards’s charm.
“Mr Drake himself, had more luck on that front. Almost had me telling him what he wanted yesterday. Got all smiles and charming at me in the store. Are they all like that?”
“Yes unfortunately.” Piper nodded “When they want something from you, that is.”
“You know Piper, I noticed something about Mr Drake himself, while he was here up close and personal yesterday, and he only missed you by like 10 or 15 minutes too.”
“Mm, what did you notice?” she asked, curious herself now.
“That Brandon’s eyes are exactly the same as Mr Drake’s.” Her look was very direct.
Piper said nothing at all. But trust Izzy to pick up on that, but then how could she miss it, those eyes were unmistakable so deep dark blue with those brilliant jewel green flecks all through them, they were kind of like looking at a blue green opals, very beautiful and mesmerising, unlike her caramel brown eyes.
“I’m guessing, he doesn’t know then, That’s why your reaction, why you’re avoiding him, huh” Perceptive as ever, though not the reason she want to avoiding him at all.
Heard the door chime and sent lzzy down to answer it. The woman went even though Piper had not answered her question, she was not dumb.
Miss Harvey arrived promptly on time, to discuss her dress and produce a sketch of what she thought she might like. It was not a rough sketch either, turned out to be very detailed, so much so that Piper got the distinct feeling that it was not the girls’ handiwork.
Took a screenshot of it for reference. It felt very familiar to her, then asked who designed it?
“Oh I did, but I had my friend draw it up. What do you think it will cost to make?”
Piper shrugged “That depends on a lot of things: fabrics, lace you choose, the beading quality and style, the buttons the type of underlay and if you want an inbuilt corset or not, what price are you looking at spending and do you know what material you want it made out of.
“Oh yes, I have a list.” she pulled out a computer-printed list of materials and handed it to Piper “I like to come prepared.” she smiled right at Piper.
Piper put her phone on her lap, and as she looked at the list in her hand of materials in her hand, she knew this was not the girls design, this dress was made by another designer. It was a Victoria Lambardi Design. She was damned certain of it.
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