The Ruse ||Calum Hood

II

"What do you think of this one?" I questioned stepping from behind the curtain I was currently changing behind. The day after our agreement the boys demanded I went shopping in order to achieve the look of Evelyn Fitzgerald. This had to be the tenth dress I had tried on and the tenth time Luke had nodded and said I looked perfect in it.

"It's perfect." He deadpanned. For the last half an hour his warm blue eyes had been glued to his phone screen, his thumb furiously scrolling through whatever he was reading.

"Luke." I moaned. "You knew Evelyn, is this something she would have worn?" I continued to twirl in front of the mirror patting down the skirt of the floral dress that perfectly hung of my hips. "You want to convince Calum just like I do so can you please cooperate?"

Sighing dramatically he put his phone away finally looking up at me. "Yes, she loved flowers. We already said that nobody knew Evelyn Fitzgerald so you can wear whatever you like, just make it elegant and fancy. What you've picked out is fine."

"I don't get why you need Calum to meet Evelyn so much." A lot of work had gone in to making me perfect for the part however I was oblivious to why she was so important in signing the deal with Calum.

"Evelyn was extremely wealthy and only invested in plans that benefited her massively, Cal wanted to make sure that she was still interested. As you know Calum is also extremely wealthy so him also investing would mean a much bigger profit." He explained.

"But Evelyn is dead so you'll only be getting Calum's investment, won't you?"

Luke shook his head. "Evelyn already invested, Calum was just meeting with her to get the facts about the plan he wanted to see if it was worth it or not. That's what you're going to do." He rose from the couch he had been sitting on for the past hour and a bit. "Are you ready to pay for those?" Luke asked pointing to the dresses I had picked put.

"Those? We're buying all of them?" My eyes grew immensely, the prices of all the dresses were above £100. Luke chuckled at my expression taking the dresses from my possession.

"Of course, you're Evelyn Fitzgerald you're meant to have more than one dress."

"I was more concerned about the price."

Luke rolled his eyes. "Tristen forget about the price, it's not like I can't afford it. Plus, it's the least we can do since you agreed to do this for us." He carried the items to the counter and laid them down in front of him. The woman scanned all the items including the one I was wearing, the price flashed up on the register and my breathing became erratic.

"Relax." He muttered handing the woman his credit card.

"Sorry I've just never spent that much on clothes before, well maybe I have but I'm still paying it back to this day." Smiling as the woman wished us a  good day I grabbed the bag that held the nine expensive dresses. Luke stepped out of the shop after me his phone back in his left hand.

"Right we're on track let's make our way to the office." He gestured to the left and we started walking in silence. The time was just before midday the time I was going to meet Calum Hood hopefully convince him to sign their deal. Trying to keep up with Luke in the ridiculously high heels they ordered I wear, we got to the office with some time to go over the plan once more.

We were forced to wait outside Michael's office whilst he took a private call, Luke finally had enough and barged inside ignoring the pleas from Michael's secretary. Rolling his eyes he finished his call and hung up instantly. "I do believe I told you to wait outside."

"Who could you possibly be talking to? Ashton is on call today, it was probably your girlfriend." He remarked planting himself on the grey couch in the corner of the room.