Page 68 of Shape Of My Heart
“I won’t be inviting Allegra and bed friends here anymore. I haven’t inmonths.”
“But you might. You mightmissthem.”
“Iwon’t.”
“How doyouknow?”
He took her hand and held it up. “Becauseofthis.”
“My hand?” She narrowed her eyes at him and wondered if this was another one of his crazyreasonings.
“No, this.” He shookherhand.
“What is it?” Shechuckled.
“Exactly, I don’t know what it is, but there’s something between us. Something that I don’t deserve.” He released her hand. Amy couldn’t have been more stunned by his words. “But since I want it, I’ll work for it. That means no more Allegra and bed friends. And it means takingusas slow asyouwant.”
She pulled in a breath to calm herself. To calm her heart as it reached out to hiswords.
“Josh.”
“Amy, please just give me a chance to take care of you. Let mehavethat.”
She felt a sense of eagerness coming from him and saw that he really wanted her to be here, so she thought she’dagree. “Okay.”
“Good. So, that just leaves the dress. You made it, didn’t you?” He tilted his head totheside.
“How’d you guess?” She smiled upathim.
“It was the way you looked when you realized it wasdamaged.”
“I’m a fashion designer. I applied to work with Dior and that dress was supposed to be myticketin.”
“Well Amy, you are full of surprises. You really are. You’re a fashion designer?” He looked reallyimpressed.
“I want to work for Dior, but now I don’t have a dress and the new designer showcase is in a month. That dress took me monthstomake.”
“Is that how long ittakes?”
“No, it just took time to design the right dress. Something I thought would win their hearts and I…” The dress had cost her a total of five thousand dollars. She didn’t even have three hundredrightnow.
“How about you work out what you need and then you and Hilda can go shopping in Beverly Hills or something. There’s plenty of designers there and I know there must be places you can get your material and diamonds orwhatever.”
She just laughed. Maybe he didn’t realize how brokeshewas.
“Josh, I’m broke, I can’t even get plastic diamonds in theBargainBin.”
“You aren’t broke, you have me.” He reached into his pocket and took out his bank card. “Here, just get whatyouneed.”
“Josh I can’t take your card. The dress cost thousands. I’m already staying in yourhouse.”
“Baby, don’t you think life is hard enough asitis?”
“Yes.” There was no questionaboutthat.
“Look what happened to you last night.” He smiled and gave her hand a squeeze. “Just take it and get whatever you need. It’s the least Icando.”
She didn’t care about her loose camisole that probably showed off too much or the matching shorts, she had tohughim.
