Everything You Need by Evelyn Lyes

Author:Evelyn Lyes [Evelyn Lyes]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 23607573
Published: 2014-11-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Ashton sighed and his fingers rubbed his neck as he stared at the blonde who sat on the couch in front of him, and who, in the fifteen minutes since she had entered the studio, hadn’t said anything beyond ‘hello.’ She was an ice sculpture, so cold. He sighed again and leaned over her to brush a wayward strand of blond hair away from her face.

She flinched and glanced up at him before her gaze got lost in the distance again.

The first time she had been like that, he had thought it was just her sulking over Mary, and that if he gave her time, she would soon get over her silent treatment. No such luck. It was already Thursday, their third meeting, and she was still unyielding and sulking the same as she had been on Tuesday, without even a hint of warming up. He had never known she could be so stubborn. “Don’t be like this,” he requested in a soft, almost pleading voice.

“Do you plan to sketch me or not?”

“I talked to Mary, I asked her to stop bothering you.” And he would have told his friend much more, but she had hung up on him and now refused to answer his calls. “What more do you want me to do?”

“If you don’t plan to draw me, I’m going home.”

He swore, fixed his hand against the back of the couch and pushed himself away. “Fine. Let’s draw you then.” He strode to the desk, pulled the drawer open and took an empty sketchpad out of it, before he slammed it shut. With the sketchpad under his arm and a pencil stuffed into the pocket of his jeans, he dragged the stool in front of the couch, making as much noise as he could.

She didn’t even blink, let alone comment.

He set the stool down, slumped onto it, opened the sketchbook and started to draw. With every line he made, the frustration caused by her behaviour melted away. He loved drawing her almost the same way he loved to touch her. The minutes ticked past, with their breathing, the scratches of pencil and the swish of the paper the only sounds that filled the space. “Could you turn to the right and shift your chin down, please?”

She obeyed his instruction.

“No, too far to the right. Look at the window, as if you were peeking sideways at it.”

She shifted in the chair.

“No, not your whole body, just your head.” He stood up and went around the table to loom over her. He bent down and gently took hold of her chin and slightly turned it. The scent of her drifted over him and suddenly he couldn’t move. He refused to move.

From the corner of her eye she looked up at him.

His thumb brushed the line of her jaw.

She swallowed.

She was so beautiful. By now he had captured on paper almost all of the expressions she had showed him; even the one with her eyes unfocused, cheeks flushed and with her mouth slightly ajar as her lungs gasped for air.

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