Captivated Love by Yasmin Sullivan

Author:Yasmin Sullivan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Darien got home from teaching his Saturday classes at the Heritage Center and changed out of his regular clothes. He put on some old, ratty sweats—his work clothes—and went into his studio. He had a few hours, and he had work that he had to get done today because tomorrow he and his brother were taking his mother out for her birthday.

He started on the second of four lamps—a new order—which he’d already sketched out and penciled onto the wood. After two hours, the broad strokes were done, and it was time to put down the power tools and pick up the chisels. It was also a good place to stop for the night.

He was meeting Safire for dinner at eight, and she’d already said that she was keeping him for the night. He didn’t mind that she wanted to make love, but he still needed to know that it was love, not just her love for the physical. He hadn’t found the right moment to bring up the issue but planned to tonight over dinner. The boy-toy comment was still on his mind, as was the way she said she loved their intimacy.

Darien had a piece he was working on for his exhibit on the other end of the table. He collected his chisels and mallet and pulled his chair around to the other end. This large piece needed detail work, including some wood burning that Darien was using to etch in a fabric pattern. After some work with the chisels and some sanding, he broke out his pyrography tools and heated up the wood-burning pen. The fabric pattern would take passes with at least three different nibs, so this would take a while. He could get one pass done tonight.

Darien thought of the girl he went out with for two years in high school, Sienna, and the way she smiled at other boys. He didn’t think anything of it until he found out that she’d been seeing Randy, a football player. She’d been playing the field all along, and he should have known because they were both playing the field when they met. He couldn’t tell if Safire was still playing the field or not. He didn’t like the way she’d laughed and smiled in the restaurant with her ex-boyfriend. Maybe it wasn’t a fair comparison. Maybe.

With what time he had left, Darien turned to the Safire piece. Capturing Safire was turning out to be far more elusive than he had thought. He wasn’t going to work on the piece tonight; he didn’t have enough time to really start anything. He wanted to look at it, mull it over and make some additions to his sketch, maybe pencil in some of the changes. Darien still needed to know more about Safire to get the sculpture right.

He was still waiting for her to open up to him. He could tell that she had a hard time trusting people, so he was trying to be patient. This was more than a little ironic.

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