Chapter 77 She Sold The Necklace
As I looked through other colors of yarn, Seraphine leaned in toward my ear and whispered, “Elliott is kind of cute, isn‘t he?”
I wanted to make sure I had enough yellow yarn to finish the baby blanket I’d started crocheting without having to come back to the store, so I grabbed several skeins and put the guards who Soren had insisted come with me to use.
Their names were Elliott and Duke-I’d asked. They‘d looked surprised that I‘d wanted to know, but I wasn‘t about to walk around town with two men and not even know their names.
Raising an eyebrow, I looked back over my shoulder. He was tall with dark, curly hair that sort of did its own thing. Duke was shorter with blond hair. Both of them were muscular, as one would expect bodyguards to be.
I was honest. “I hadn‘t noticed. Frankly, I‘m surprised you did.” Seraphine was much older than me, definitely not the type of woman one would expect to be giggling over young cute boys.
“I‘m not looking for me,” she gently tapped the tip of my nose. “It‘s just… you need to start thinking about your future. You‘re a beautiful single woman. Just because you‘re about to have a baby, that doesn‘t mean that your life is over. You and Mr. Soren insist that you‘re just friends, so you may as well look for another man that you‘re interested in romantically.”
I didn‘t know what Seraphine was getting at exactly, but I wasn‘t interested in dating any of the guards, or anyone. “Thank you, Seraphine,” I smiled, “But I think I‘ll wait until after the baby is born to think about potentially dating.”
Seraphine didn‘t say anything else, and I grabbed several more skeins of yarn, this time in a dark blue color, before leading the way up to the counter to pay for everything.
Once I‘d made my purchase here, I headed over to the dress shop.
But I stopped short of going in.
Another store caught my eye.
A pawnshop.
I remembered Soren mentioning it that morning over breakfast, but it wasn‘t until right that moment that I realized that I needed to enter the store. “Seraphine,” I said, tugging on her arm. “I need to go in here.”
the pawnshop?” she questioned.
headed up to the counter, my
set it down on the counter. “How much would you give me
up at him. He was older, with scrutinizing green eyes and white hair. “Is it real?” he asked
I said, figuring he had ways of telling
noise in the back of his throat that made
it. “Miss, don‘t worry, they will give us a fair price. You know, good thing that we had our guards with us today.” And then she looked outside and glanced over at the two guards, implying to the man that if he wasn‘t
the guards, then pulled out a tool from
they are,”
worth even more than that because pawnshops never give a person what
could get it back in a
be doing
to wear to dinner with Soren. I noticed he liked it when I wore red. He was always complimentary, no matter what I wore, but when I wore
to pay, Seraphine said, “Oh,
else to wear now that my neck was bare. I liked how the infinity figure–eight symbolized that life went on,
we had made it this far, against the odds. The necklace
my purchases
started crocheting, but I wasn‘t working on the baby‘s blanket
got a
you up. Will you have enough time
ordering me around or demanding
of time,” I told him. Then I added, “How was your
said, “It‘s about to get a whole lot better as
I put on some diamond earrings, one of Soren‘s gifts, and the
gift into a bag, one of the many I had collected
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