“I gave the remains to my personal tailor yesterday, along with your Instagram photo. He was able to replicate it.”
Her jaw drops. “In a day?”
“I’m a very good customer.” I smirk.
She unmutes the phone. “His tailor replicated it yesterday,” she tells Tessa.
Pause.
“You can tell him yourself.” She hands the phone to me.
“Ms. Logan,” I say.
“Mr. Black…I mean…Braden. Hi. I’m not sure what to say. This could totally be the same dress. Thank you so much.”
“You’re very welcome. Anytime.”
“You didn’t have to,” Tessa says. “What’s a dress between best friends? I wish there was some way I could repay you.”
“Actually, there is something you can do for me.”
“Of course. Anything.”
“Let me take Skye to lunch today. You can have lunch with her tomorrow.”
“Are you kidding?” She laughs. “Of course! And thank you again.”
“I appreciate that. And you don’t have to keep thanking me. Have a good day.” I hand the phone back to her.
“Tess?” she says. Then she wrinkles her brow.
Tessa must have hung up.
I stare at her. “Seems you’re free for lunch after all, Skye.”
Chapter Twenty-Seven
“Tessa said you sent the dress to her office,” Skye says to me after we order our meal at a little French bistro. “How did you know where she works?”
“That kind of information isn’t hard to find,” I reply.
“Not when you can pay for it,” she says. “Just out of curiosity, how much did that dress cost you on such short notice?”
I try to stop my lips from twitching into a smile. “I never discuss personal purchases.”
“Oh?”
“No. It’s no one’s business how much I pay for anything.”
She drops her gaze. “Well, it was nice of you. Very nice.”
“I said I’d replace it.”
“I know, but I didn’t expect you to actually replicate it. Why would you do that?”
I take a sip of water. “Because I can.”
She doesn’t reply right away. An adorable look of confusion spreads over her face instead. Why does it surprise her that I don’t discuss purchases? I have the resources to replicate a dress in twenty-four hours, so I use them. I got to tear the dress off Skye, and Tessa gets a brand-new one. A great deal, as far as I’m concerned.