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"It is the industry standard," he answered, and it tookto my comment about his artist’s salary "I wasn’t always paid in h At the start, when there wasn’t a lot of money, Adam paid me with stock in the company"

My brows shot up "Holy crap…for real? Thatat the print I couldn’t tell whether he liked it or was horrified by it "It changes depending on the day and the value of the stock I don’t pay much attention to it The last I heard from my accountant, my portfolio orth a little more than fifty-sixhockey scores

I alone fro started the company on his own, but I had no idea that William hi?"

He finally pulled his eyes away froht shoulder "What else would I do?"

I laughed "I don’t know…travel all year round? Sit on a different beach every week and read books? I could think of a lot of things"

"The colors in that print are extre iven the way he blew off what I’d just said "That is a falish painter of the pre-Raphaelite tradition," he said without looking at it again

"It’s an old poster I bought a few years back I’ive it ahen I move"

"When you leave with the Renaissance Faire?"

I shifted in aze followed theonhi Maybe he was s looked in the shorts so he could draw the he’d shown ame--the one of my hand It was excellent…so realistic And detailed Alht my hand was particularly beautiful, but he’d rendered it beautifully He’dwhere that weird thought had co time My friend says I have what she calls želja za putovanje can nail hed "Sorry, no Ican keepabout that for a moment I considered the hurt in Alex’s eyes when I’d told her I was leaving And Mia In fact, most of ot it though A lot of the to work the Faire for a while, reading Tarot cards"

His expression didn’t change "You believe in that? Fortune-telling?"

"I believe the cards can teach people to follow their own intuition I’ My aunt used to read cards a lot She taught me before she went back to Bosnia"

He spoke after some hesitation "I would like you to do that for h," he added quickly

I nodded "I’ll read for you But right noe need to work on visualization and breathing We can’t have what happened at the hockey gaht?"

He looked up at aze and then yanked his eyes away He looked aled "I didn’t leave because of the crowd"

I blinked Well, this was news to me "You picked me up and carried me out of the arena like the place was on fire If I recall correctly, you seeet out of there"