Playboy's Promise by Caroline Lee

Author:Caroline Lee [Lee, Caroline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-08T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

The Friday before Labor Day, Dustin stood in his living room in front of his easel and canvas, laughing uproariously at Marley’s irritated commentary of a Bob Ross video. She sat in her wheelchair off to one side, a short easel on a folding table beside her. Dustin had ordered new equipment—including paints and canvases and brushes—just for this evening, and was thrilled to share his hobby with her.

Especially because it turned out painting was one talent Marley didn’t possess.

“Happy little trees, my numb butt,” she muttered as she stabbed at the canvas with the fan brush. “These look like a toddler painted them. How in the— How does he make them look so real?” Switching her glare to Dustin’s easel, she blew out an exasperated breath. “Your trees look happy! Why don’t mine?”

Dustin bit down on his laughter and nodded sympathetically. She was right; despite the ease of the video’s instructions, her trees did look like a toddler had slapped the canvas a few times.

He’d painted this scene before, more than a few times. To him, the relaxation and meditation of an hour-long painting-with-Bob-Ross session was worth the cost of the canvas and paints. His paintings decorated his parents’ house, and some of his siblings’ homes, and of course, the office he shared with Travis. But that was only to have something to do with the canvases once the paintings were complete; if Dustin could have his way, he’d just paint over them with white and start over again.

It was the process he found so soothing, but tonight, it was less meditative and more hilarious.

He paused the video. “You’ve got to hide the trunk behind the leaves.”

“Those aren’t leaves,” she snapped. “They’re blobs.”

“Fine,” he said, with a grin. “Then hide the trunk behind the blobs. Not a straight line, like this.”

He showed her what he meant and watched as she tried it, a frown on her lips. Then she put her brush down, unlocked her wheels, and backed up. Five feet from the easel, she cocked her head to one side and hummed thoughtfully.

“Okay, you were right. From this distance, the blobs do kinda look like leaves. With a trunk.”

He was chuckling when he unpaused the video.

It was hard to believe he’d been dating Marley for almost three weeks now. Sure, in the past, he’d gone on more than one date in a row with a woman. But those were almost always on the weekends, and after a few weeks, he’d get bored and give her the “let’s be friends” line.

But he’d seen Marley almost every day of the last three weeks. Whether it was an official date, with just the two of them going to dinner, or a meeting with Caroline and Travis to help plan the upcoming wedding, or an appointment in the PT room of Joint Ventures…they’d seen each other plenty.

And Dustin found it still wasn’t enough.

He hadn’t kissed her yet. Although, to be fair, she hadn’t kissed him yet either.

And he was honest enough with himself to know it was the mere physical differences which held him back.

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