The Ties that Binds Us

Chapter 12 "Let Me Be Your Hero"

"Where are we going now Luke?" 

"I have another present for you Syd." Luke beams at me again showing his excitement. 

After thirty minutes of driving along Madrid, we stop at store and once again Luke covers my eyes and blindfolds me. He assists me while exiting the car and leads me inside the store. 

He releases me once more heading to somewhere I don't know. I can hear whispers and heels clattering on the floor. Luke leads me farther into the store and he lets me sit down on a soft couch and after a few moments he releases the blindfold, and as my eyes readjust to the brightness of the room, I was surprised once more. I realize that we're in Versace.

Luke is standing in front of me, holding a full lenght dress, with stunning design and mix colors of pink, brown, gold, and amber. It has a beige corsette that just reaches the bottom of the breasts. The bottom of the dress was layers of fine material with a slit that goes up to the hips. The shoulder straps are made from the same material as the one in the lower portion of the dress with an asymmetrical cut. This dress is gorgeous.

I gape at Luke and he orders me to stand up. 

"What is this?" 

"It's a dress." Luke smiles widely at me.

"I can see that. A dress? Don't you like what I have on now?" 

"No. No I like it. But this is more appropriate for where we are going next. Now go and fit this dress on. If you don't like it, go pick something else. Understand?" Luke pushes me into the dressing room and closes the door behind me. 

I fit on the dress, but I can't quite figure out how to put it on because I can't see where the zipper is. When I finally did figure it out, there's another problem; I can't pull the zipper up. 

"Luke?" I called out loud.

"Yeah?"

"Can you come and help me out with this dress?" He didn't answer. Maybe he called someone from the staff. But then I heard him knocking on the door of the dressing room. 

"What is it?" He was surprised that I was almost half naked in front of him. I saw his mouth open a little bit.

"Can you help me with this damn zipper. I can't pull it up." He approached me from behind and obliged. When I look at him in the mirror, he was pink, almost red. He was staring at me, while slowly pulling the zipper up. His green eyes blazing, and growing darker. I can feel my face heating up from embarassment.

"Thanks. You can go now. And Luke?" He turned on his heels and exit the dressing room.

"Yeah?" 

"Close your mouth." He blushes more. He's now the color of a very ripe apple. He scrambles outside the dressing room as I close the door. 

I walk towards the waiting area where Luke was waiting for me. One of the staff was staring at him with her mouth slightly open. She keeps on asking him if she can get anything for him. When I finally emerge from the dressing room, the woman was still talking to him and when Luke sees me he immediately ignored the woman making her upset. Her eyebrows almost touched each other.

Lukes gazes at me from head to toe and his eyes widen once more and he turns red. He approached me and handed me a box. 

"Where this." I open the box, and I see a gray patent leather pumps from Gucci. 

"What? Come on." I raise an eyebrow at Luke and he just winks at me. I forcefully obliged as he insists that I wear these shoes. 

"Good. You look absolutely gorgeous Sydney."