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“Honey this isaround” I stopped before a particularly beautiful painting of a nightti, contrasted against the blues and whites of a star-filled sky “You’re such a jerk for locking your door!” I chided hi from anyone!”

I kne hard it must’ve been for him to keep this a secret I just didn’t knohy

“Colin knows,” he admitted “He’s seen me with a canvas or two But Brandon—”

“Do you really think they’d judge you?” I asked “Couys are your brothers! And really, look at this stuff You should be hanging this in places where people can ad it away in some crowded bedroom”

He folded his tattooed arms around me from behind “Funny you should say that There’s actually an exhibition this weekend, and I have four or five pieces on display” He waved one hand dis, down at the—”

“Dowlingabout They did it often “That’s not silly Hunter, that’s actually prestigious”

He squeezed htly and Imy neck

“First tiht Did you want to join me?”

I gasped and spun around so quickly his eyes ide “YES! Yes, of course I want to go with you!”

I felt overwhelh to showress

“We’ll get dinner first,” Hunter“Then head over there afterward Apparently it’s fancy I suppose we’ll have to dress up”

Dressing up was so while Between fixing up the house in throay clothes and Garrett not taking me anywhere, well… just like my sex life, it had been a while

But also just likeup

“Six O’clock sound good?”

He began kissingh his hair as the arhtened