Right Where You Left Me by Melanie Scott

Author:Melanie Scott [Scott, Melanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Mina spent much of Friday locked in her studio, still trying to make up for lost time. There was less than a month now before she had to send her paintings to the gallery. She’d promised them thirty, and though she had painted more than that already she still didn’t have thirty she was happy to put on show for the whole world to see.

She tried to lose herself in the paint and not think about Will, but wasn’t exactly successful. For one thing, her fingers kept starting to idly move to shift the lines of the ocean she was trying to capture into something more like a face. Will’s face.

But the gallery was expecting seascapes, not portraits. Will’s face could wait. But even when she mastered her fingers, she couldn’t stop her brain from straying. She tried some of her usual methods for distraction. Podcasts. No, she lost track of the story after a few minutes. Radio. No. She switched that off when she figured out they were doing a favorite Christmas song request show. And that people had apparently requested “All I Want for Christmas Is You” three times in a row.

Though, thankfully one of them had asked for the Michael Bublé version rather than the original Mariah. More soothing. But apparently Christmas music wasn’t going to distract her today.

After that she’d switched to one of the playlists of movie scores she used as background noise, but even that hadn’t been enough to put her into the zone. By three p.m., the light was fading and she had two new paintings, neither of which she was happy with.

She’d just returned from taking Stewie for a walk to try and shake off the bad day when her phone buzzed to life in her pocket.

She put the phone on the counter and hit speaker while she tried to wrangle Stewie out of his harness. Never an easy task when he was more focused on trying to puppy-dog-eye her into a postwalk cookie than on cooperating.

“Hello?” she yelled in the general direction of the phone as Stewie tried to thread himself and the lead around her legs, treading on her toes in the process.

“Mina?” It was Will’s voice. “Where are you?”

“At home. Sorry, you’re on speaker, just a second.” She managed to get Stewie to sit long enough to finish the job of extracting dog from harness and then sent him to his basket with a liver treat to hold him temporarily. “Okay.” She picked up the phone. “I’m back.”

“Everything okay?”

“Yes.” Except for the way her pulse picked up at the sound of his voice. “Just got back from walking Stewie.” Did she sound breathless? Lord, she hoped not. But if she did, hopefully he’d think it was just because she’d been exercising. “Er, how’s your day been?”

“Quiet so far. But I’m heading into town to help with some festival preparations. Painting a few Christmas trees or something.”

“Painting Christmas trees?” Mina realized she really hadn’t been paying attention in the meeting.

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