Lawless in Leather by Scott Melanie

Author:Scott, Melanie [Scott, Melanie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781466835672
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2015-05-05T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

The day passed in a blur of work and a nap to make up for her lost night’s sleep and then rehearsal. She’d emailed all of the Angels to congratulate them on the job they’d done and to remind them that there was practice the next morning. She’d received an excited text from Marly, who announced that she had ten thousand new Twitter followers. And an annoyed message from Ana about why it was Marly’s picture that all the papers had used. And then, more pleasingly, a call from Mal in Baltimore. She’d managed to avoid telling him about Jeremy. He didn’t have long to talk but somehow, in a few short minutes, he managed to make an innocent-seeming request for her email address seem like a proposition.

By the time she’d hung up the phone she’d been turned on and missing him all over again. Which was when she’d decided to go to the club and try to work him and everything else out of her system with four hours of dance rehearsal.

It had helped a little but now it was Sunday night, the club was opening its doors, and she was sitting in front of the mirror in the dressing room and still couldn’t manage to focus all her attention on the performance and emceeing. It took her three attempts to get her false eyelashes on, and that was something she could do in her sleep.

Brady wandered past her mirror while she was finally getting the lashes into position. He stopped and studied her face. “More glitter¸” he pronounced. “If you’re wearing the black dress, go for more glitter on the cheeks and eyes and dark-red lips. And the peacock earrings.”

“Really? With the black?” The new black dress he’d made her was alternating bands of black satin and lace. Some of the lace was backed by not-so-sheer fabric the same color as her skin. Some of it wasn’t. Which made watching her wearing it an exercise in guessing which bits of her body you were really seeing. Exactly the effect they had been aiming for. Sexy but mysterious.

The lace bands had tiny black crystals sewn over them, picking out some of the flowers and flourishes of the fine fabric.

“The crystals throw off peacock shades in the light,” Brady pointed out. He leaned over and lifted the peacock earrings from the rack they were hanging on. Shaped like a male peacock sitting in a silver hoop, the colors of his feathers picked out by crystals and enamel, they were extravagant to say the least. Large even before taking into account the chains of crystals that fell from the bottom of the hoop, fanning out to form the tails of the birds.

The earrings had originally been designed for the outfit—such as it was—she’d worn for a peacock-themed fan dance she used to perform, but she hadn’t done that routine for over a year now. One of the other girls had reused the feathers in the fan for another routine but Raina had never quite been able to give up the earrings.

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