Single Female (Reluctantly) Seeks... by Dixie Browning

Author:Dixie Browning
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1995-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

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The music was depressing, but Mike looked like Hollywood incarnate in white slacks and a mauve silk shirt. The color made his skin look like it sported a golden tan, and he was masculine enough to carry it off. He was also wearing a pendant and an earring, and on him they looked terrific. As an artist, Jay appreciated well-designed jewelry. During her college years she had taken two courses in jewelry design and made several nice pieces in silver. Which were now gathering tarnish in the top drawer of her dresser. Ronnie had preferred gold.

Idly, she tried and failed to picture Thad wearing a baroque pendant and a single gold stud.

Someone in the small audience coughed. Hauling in her wandering attention, Jay laced her fingers together and pinned an interested look on her face as the chamber group launched into what surely must be their last number. They’d been playing for what seemed hours, and one of the wires in her underwire bra was digging into her rib cage.

Mike leaned closer, favoring her with a whiff of cologne and toothpaste. “What’s your tolerance for chamber music, JayJay?”

“Not as great as I thought,” she whispered back.

“How do you stand on Ravel?”

“Carefully. Very, very carefully. I tried painting to the Bolero once, but it’s a little too—too compulsive. Actually, what I really like is—”

“Shh!”

Jay grimaced at the chorus of shushes from nearby seats, and winking, Mike rose and held out his hand. The two of them scurried like guilty children from the auditorium.

“Sorry about the bill of fare. I was expecting something on the lighter side.”

“I know about lite beer and lite salad dressing, but lite chamber music?”

With a grin that alone could have won him a screen test, Mike held open the door and they emerged into the warm, fragrant night. “Okay, I confess. Actually, I was trying to impress you with my musical erudition,” he confided, which she found rather touching. To her knowledge, no one had ever deliberately tried to impress her. “When it comes to music, I’m really into jazz, but I had you figured for the highbrow stuff.”

He was still holding her hand. Jay saw no need to make an issue of it. Sodium vapor lights cast a friendly pink glow over the wet pavement. There’d evidently been another shower while they were inside.

And then he swung around in front of her, a look of boyish delight on his face. “Hey—I just had a great idea! There’s a first-rate sound system in my apartment, so why don’t we stop by somewhere and pick up a couple of CDs and go home and listen. We each get to pick one, my treat.”

CDs? She’d been expecting perhaps an offer of drinks, or ice cream, or maybe even a late supper. “You mean—actually go out and buy records? CDs?” Jay was still playing her old LPs, much to the disgust of Sue and Sara, who told her vinyl was extinct. C.A. was the only one who seemed

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