Every Way (The Brush Of Love Series, #4) by Lexy Timms

Author:Lexy Timms
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: coming of age, overcoming, women's fiction, drugs, fake girlfriend, fake boss, big beautiful woman, big beautiful women, fiction, cancer, love and life, contemporary romance, new adult, romance, billionaire, Alpha male romance, Alpha Bad Boy, bad boy, hot doctors, hot romance, hot and steamy, famous actor, happily ever after, true love, billionaire romance, billionaire romance, melody anne billionaire bachelors series, new, bbw, romance billionaire series, bad boy obsession, contemporary romance, addiction, ptsd
Publisher: Dark Shadow Publishing
Published: 2018-01-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Hailey

I had interviewed the three individuals I had discussed with Bryan, but none of them were as impressive in person. The person who had worked at The Louvre t hardly had any knowledge of the paintings they had worked alongside and guarded. It was astounding to me, her lack of enthusiasm. And the other interviewees couldn’t give me straight answers on anything like why they wanted to work here and what drew them to art in the first place. It was like they chose art just to get a degree in something.

They were airheads, and I was angry that I had wasted my time on them.

Now, I was waiting on the last interview of the day. I was ready to close down the gallery and go home because my ankles were throbbing. My hip pain was getting worse by the day, I was beginning to sweat through my clothes because of San Diego’s lovely seventy-degree weather, and I had run out of water a half an hour ago during a rush of people who came in to purchase things and place orders.

She was late. The girl that both Bryan and I liked on paper was ten minutes late for her interview. The sun was beating down through the windows of the gallery, and at any other point in time, I would’ve loved the view. I would have loved the way the warm glow illuminated the onyx flooring of the gallery Bryan had so painstakingly put together and the way the warm hue cast an orange along the cream-colored walls and accented John’s dual paintings perfectly.

It was a sight I used to love.

But now, it was almost tainted by threats from John’s past, by my constant worry that someone would come in and hurt me, by Ben’s disgusting smell and rotting teeth and switchblade that seemed too eager to cut into the canvas of my paintings. Every time the bell rang out into the gallery, I jumped. My heart would race, and my palms would sweat. In a matter of seconds, I would debate on whether to waddle out the back door and try to get away. Only to see it was a customer coming in to purchase something.

That Ben guy had ruined this gallery for me, and it ached my heart.

This place had been my solace, my safe place from the world. It had held my dreams and ambitions in the corners of its walls and watched me succeed. It had held a painting Bryan and I had made, our bodies becoming brushes as our love painted the scene. It had been the place of John’s showcase, where his artwork had been shipped off to the corners of the planet to forever be enjoyed and talked about.

This place had brought so much into the lives of so many, and it had only taken one individual two appearances to destroy it all.

The bell above the door rang out, and my heart jumped into my throat. This was it. He was here to collect early, and I didn’t have the money.

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