Saturday at four, the intern was a bright blade of efficiency.Ivy stood on the platform in the ink-dark silk and held still for real this time. Roman moved around her with pins in his mouth and nothing in his eyes that the intern could file. The slit sat an inch lower. The bias hung like water. The dress was, infuriatingly, perfect.“Turn,” he said.She turned. The intern circled with a garment bag already unzipped, humming.“Gorgeous,” the intern said. “You’re going to ruin a room.”“That’s the lighting’s job,” Ivy said, and Roman’s glance flicked to her mouth, gone in a blink.Four-twenty. He pulled the last pin. Four-twenty-six. The intern steamed a wrinkle that didn’t exist. Four-twenty-nine. Roman sent her downstairs with the bag and a story about the client wanting to sit with the hang.“I’ll lock up,” he said.The intern beamed, vanished, bells on the shop door, footsteps on the stair, gone.Four-thirty-one.Roman turned the interior lock. The workroom shrank to lamp and steam
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