Page 35 of Cowboy's Sinful Bargain

I glanced around when I heard a woman speaking until I spotted her near the back of the store, a stack of boxes in her hands. She had a bit of gray at her temples and some wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, but other than that you couldn't tell she was a day over thirty.

Jos looped an arm around my shoulders and pulled me forward. "This here is Miko. He needs to be outfitted for the ranch. Just a couple of changes of clothing for now. We'll come back for more later."

I swallowed nervously when the woman's eyes pinned on me. Jos hadn't said exactly who I was so I wasn't going to either.

"What size do you wear, honey?"

"Um, seventy-one centimeters."

The woman frowned. "What's that in inches?"

"I believe its twenty-eight inches." If my measurement conversion was correct.

She looked me up and down for a moment before nodding. "You look to be a small in shirts. I think I can get you properly outfitted for the ranch."

"Oh, um." I glanced at Jos. He said just a couple of things. What did "outfitted" entail?

"Go into the dressing room," Agnes stated. "I'll bring you some stuff to try on."

What in the hell was a dressing room and where was it?

Jos grabbed my wrist and pulled me over to a curtained doorway. He shoved the curtain aside and then stood back. "I'll be waiting out here for you. I want to see everything when you try them on, make sure the fit is right."

With that, he pushed me into the room and drew the curtain. I glanced around, not that there was much to see. It was a rather small space. There was a bench on one side and several hooks in the wall just above it.

I wasn't sure what I was supposed to be doing until someone knocked on the wall. "I have some things here for you to try on," Agnes called out.

I moved the curtain aside with my arm and then took the small stack of clothes she held out to me. After dropping the curtain, I set the clothes on the bench and started undressing.

I was a little curious as to what she had picked out for me. I'd never gone to a store to try on clothes before. There were two pairs of jeans, one dark and one faded. Of the three shirts she had included two were button up and one was a simple black T-shirt.

I tried on one of the button up shirts and the dark jeans first. The jeans, while fitting well around most of my body, were a little long. They also weren't the same loose fitting pants I usually wore so it felt a little weird.

I stepped out of the dressing room so Jos could see. He was sitting on the small couch across from the dressing room. He looked me up and down before giving me a nod.

I glanced down at my feet. "They are a little long. I think I need a shorter pair."

"They need to be a little long," Jos stated. "You need room for your boots."

I was getting boots, too?

"Go try the others on."

I went back into the dressing room and undressed, carefully refolding the clothes I had just tried on and setting them on the bench, and then put on the next set. When I stepped out of the dressing room this time, Jos just stared at me, not saying a word.

I started to grow nervous.

Did I look bad?

Did the faded jeans and the T-shirt not fit right?

"You can wear those," Jos finally said. "Wear the flannel shirt over the T-shirt."

I gave a nod.

"Go gather your stuff and bring it out. I'm going to go talk to Agnes for a moment."

I was so confused.

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