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His voice had been loud enough that I glanced around, wanting to avoid , if you didn’t realize Co show, is not the way to handle this"

"The gallery in the casino is your territory You’ve been very clear on how you feel aboutI’m allowed to come there now?"

"Yes, that’s fine," I said, to appease hiht that second, because having hi to turn me into a basket case in theto flake out on "Now please, you need to let me work"

In theory, he did back off, just not far He didn’t leave, as I’d hoped, but stayed, going through the entire building slowly, roohly, always in

I tried my best not to be distracted

One of the artists had done a series of paintings on large hly six feet high, and the way they were set around the roo series

I’d just shown it to so down a few notes about some other work by the sa before they made a decision They had since ed this I didn’t hover, tending to let the buyer find the pieces that spoke to them on their own

There was a small table at the back of what had turned into thea series of sh free space for me to set my paper-thin laptop on as I typed a few details in

I was just straightening when big hands cupped

I kneho it was instantly Of course I did I could sne was permanently branded into my brain

And those hands No one else on earth had hands like his

I breathed in deep, taking hirip

One hand left th of h the thin ht, his journey frohtened into hard peaks by the time he reached my nape

I shivered involuntarily

Heto I could feel the heat of his palh my clothes The contrast of the touches made me catch an to quiver

He rees, until I felt hiht he?" I asked him in a shaky voice