Aim For Love by Pamela Aares

Author:Pamela Aares [Aares, Pamela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, woman's fiction, baseball, Contemporary, Sports
Publisher: SeaStar Press
Published: 2014-09-10T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Kaz had never seen his sister so nervous. Nariko toyed with the silk cord dangling beside her painting.

“Thank you for coming, Kazi. I know with everyone away and your spring training about to start, fitting this in wasn’t easy.”

“I’d never just fit you in, Nari.”

She grinned. “Maybe it was my twentieth email reminding you that did the trick?” But her grin faded, and she fingered the cord again. “I’m not sure the LA scene is ready for samurai paintings.”

“The LA Times wouldn’t have run an article on you if that were true. Maybe you got a different edition of the Times than I did. Mine said: ‘Her work is an exploration of the duality of metal and the fleetingness of light,’ and I quote directly.”

Nari blushed and lowered her eyes. “We’ll see.”

The first guests filtered in and headed for the gallery owner, a tanned, thin woman in a silver sheath.

“Show time, sis.”

Kaz glanced back to the door.

“Will I meet Sabrina tonight?” Nari asked as she followed the path of his gaze.

“Why would you ask that?”

“Maybe because you’re staring at the door with the same hopefulness I heard in your voice the couple of times you mentioned her to me. Maybe because I’ve never seen or heard that expression from you before. Maybe because we’re in LA, and I saw in one of the tabloids that she was here getting ready to start shooting Exigent Two or whatever they’re calling it. Or maybe it’s because I dearly hope to meet the woman who has rattled my unflappable brother so I can seek some pointers.”

Kaz turned from the door and simply stared at Nariko. He didn’t know whether to be frightened or awed by her insights.

He’d mentioned the show to Sabrina when she’d asked about the art at the farmhouse. Each piece she’d specifically mentioned had been created by Nari. Because of her questions, many of which he couldn’t answer, he’d guessed she’d enjoy the gallery showing.

“Maybe she’ll come.” He shifted his feet. “But I don’t know. The last time I saw her, we… It didn’t end well. But I did call her.” More than that, he’d asked Alex to do what he could to make sure she’d come.

“I need to give you some pointers,” Nari said with a smile that said she wasn’t going to let the subject drop. He shouldn’t have told her what little he had about his time with Sabrina.

“And you get points if she comes, Kazi—major points. It’d be a coup to have Sabrina Tavonesi at my opening. You do know she’s about the hottest thing in Hollywood right now?”

Nari crossed her arms, holding a powerful stance, a stance honed from years of training with his grandfather, with his father, with him and their brother. She was samurai, and she wasn’t about to be brushed off. Only the approach of a group of well-wishing gallery patrons saved him from being grilled.

He slipped away and started a tour of the gallery, stopping to examine the largest of Nari’s paintings.

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