Going All The Way by Tanya Michaels

Author:Tanya Michaels
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

9

WELL, IT WAS official. She was going to have to take Aly and Craig out back and shoot them.

Serena had walked back to the circle, lugging a couple of chairs, in time to see David’s eyes go the size of potters’ wheels. And she’d realized very quickly why. Damn. In the sketches Craig had done of her, she’d had her head turned and almost none of her face was visible. Lots of people could stand next to her and look at one of the finished paintings, never realizing it was Serena in them. But to say David knew her body intimately verged on understatement.

Why did they have to show him that?

She should probably wait until it wasn’t Alyson’s birthday to throttle her for not interceding on Serena’s behalf. Not that Serena was embarrassed about posing, just that she’d been making a concerted effort to keep the “David” and “nudity” areas of her life separated. She tried to recall if Billie, Wes or Summer knew she’d been Craig’s model for the Contemplation series. She hoped that Alyson and Craig would be tactful enough not to remark; Emma obviously knew it was Serena, but she was the least likely to speak up in group conversation.

Serena set down one of the chairs with a thunk.

“Good timing.” David’s eyes met hers. “I need to sit.”

A brief electric moment passed between them, but then he flipped to another drawing. “Craig, you’ve got some amazing talent. Don’t get me wrong, I draw a mean stick figure myself, but these are incredible.”

“Thanks.” Craig beamed in Serena’s direction. “Feel free to bring him along whenever we get together.”

More time with David? Just what her sanity needed.

The techno-blues song that had been playing wound down on one last soulful note, and Zach gave up dancing in favor of sauntering toward them. “Alyson, love, I have to leave for South Carolina distressingly early tomorrow morning for the art festival, so how about we move on to cake and gifts now? I don’t want to miss your oohing and aahing over what I got you.”

Oohing and aahing was probably an accurate prediction. Zach was known for selecting fabulously extravagant presents.

“You don’t have to twist my arm.” Alyson laughed, waving her arm toward the gyrating party-goers. “Let them eat cake!”

“I’ve got candle detail,” Serena said, scooping up Craig’s portfolio and carrying it far, far away from David’s curious eyes.

The Red Velvet cake Serena had picked up this afternoon was back in a small concessions room where gallery guests could buy coffee and pastries. Alyson joined her only moments after Serena had flipped up the light switch.

“Hey, shouldn’t you be out there, guest of honor?” Serena asked.

“I wanted to count the candles, put to rest the ugly rumor floating around that I’m twenty-eight. Let’s not age me a year before my time.”

“You’re lucky I don’t tell everyone you’re twenty-nine.”

“Thought you looked perturbed.” Aly grimaced. “Sorry. So many people here are familiar with Craig’s work, it didn’t even occur to me beforehand that you might not want David to see the pictures.

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