"Shanna Swendson - Once Upon Stillettos" - читать интересную книгу автора (Swendson Shanna)

have to get these."

"Do I really want men to worship me?"

She gave me another one of those pitying looks. "Why wouldn't you?"

"Because I'm not the kind of girl men worship. And I'd prefer a more equal relationship."

"Wear these shoes, and you get the worship. And then you can have the relationship on any terms you
want--equal or otherwise."

"But I don't have anything to go with them," I said, changing tactics.

She gave me a "what will I ever do with you?" sigh. "You don't find clothes that тАШgo with' shoes like
these. These shoes aren't just accessories. They're an outfit that you accessorize with a simple black or
gray dress. This is what you should wear on your date."

"I can't afford to buy shoes that don't go with almost everything I already own."

She flipped over the shoe she held and checked the price tag. "These are only two hundred dollars.
That's half the price of a pair of Manolos. They're a bargain."

"They look like I could click my heels three times and get back home to Kansas."

"Oh, no, honey," she said, shaking her head. "These are the shoes that get you out of Kansas. Go on, at
least try them on."

"You're the one who likes them so much. You get them."

"They'd make me look like the Jolly Green Giant. I'd tower over Philip." Philip was her boyfriend, and
the fact that she'd given up towering heels for him was a sure sign of true love. Philip also used to be a
frog, but she didn't know that. It's a long story. Suffice it to say, there was more than a hint of weirdness
to my life. "But Ethan's really tall, and you're not all that tall, so you could totally wear these."

I could probably even wear them and still be shorter than a certain someone who wasn't quite as tall as
Ethan, but I'd promised myself I wasn't going to think about him all weekend. "Gemma, I don't think so.
Not yet. This is only a second date. I don't want to look like I'm trying too hard, and those shoes scream
тАШpulling out all the stops.' I don't want to give him that impression."

"So we're playing it cool?"

"Yeah, playing it cool. A strategy taught to me by a certain person named Gemma."

With a deep sigh, she replaced the shoe on its display. I grabbed her arm to drag her to the escalators so
we could look at clothes I could actually afford, but when I turned around, I saw something that made
me do a double take: two women with wings looking at shoes in the adjacent boutique.

For most people, the wings would be the cause of the double take. That's not something you see every
day. But the fairies caught my eye because I knew them, and they didn't strike me as the kind of people
who shopped at Bloomingdale's. I had them pegged as the type who wouldn't think of buying anything