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“Ember, that is not what I asked,” he whispered as he stepped closer to me.
I swallowed around the lump in my throat. How did he handle all this attention?
“Um, blue,” I answered. “Blue is my favorite color.”
He exhaled in my face, causing me to inhale and my panic immediately lessened.
“Better?” he whispered.
I nodded while staring at his chest.
His hand slipped into mine and almost immediately I felt normal again. “Better?” he asked again.
“Yes,” I replied and looked up at him. “Thank you.”
“Remember, tell me what you need.”
“I didn’t know,” I admitted.
He nodded. “I’ll try to remember that. Now, let’s pick out a phone case.” He steered me towards the wall of phone cases and I tried to go towards the older model’s compatible cases, but he tugged me to the newest models.
“I’m not getting the newest model. I spent too much already,” I told him.
“Consider it a courting gift,” he said. “It’ll make me feel better to know you have the newest and best model.”
Arguing in front of so many people would make me look bad, so I decided to accept it and find a way to repay him later.
I pointed to the clear case with glitter inside. “That one.”
Thankfully he was taller than me so he was able to reach it. I would have had to jump. He carried it over to the table where the manager was typing furiously on a tablet, the brand-new phone in blue next to the tablet.
Caleb set the phone down, then turned to the accessories, walked over, and grabbed several more items.
My eyes widened and I opened my mouth to say something, but caught the eyes of several other customers watching and snapped it closed. Dang it.
He set the stack of accessory boxes on the table and slid them towards the manager. “These as well, please.”
“Do you have an existing plan?” the manager asked me.
“No, I?—”
“She’s being added to mine,” Caleb said and pulled out his bank card.
“What?” I squeaked.
He smiled. “Riddick and I are on a family plan, and now you. We’ll add Branson and Triston later as well.”
Oh, if he was adding all of us, then I supposed it was okay. Plus, I hadn’t had a plan before so I didn’t really know which one to choose.
“Alright, I’ll just need you to sign a few items,” the manager said, turned the tablet towards Caleb, and walked him through the contract and payment confirmation.
The manager bagged up the purchases and bowed to us as we left.
Caleb put his hat and glasses back on and swung the bag as he walked, his smile full of giddy delight.
Shouldn’t I be the one delighted?
“You’re scowling a lot for someone who just got several nice gifts,” Riddick whispered in my ear.
