She looked up at Ronan and shook her head. “This can’t be me.”
“Ah, but it is.”
“But how…?” Shannah looked at the pictures again. She looked cool and confident and sultry and beguiling all at the same time. She had never been cool or confident or sultry before. Why now?
She was still pondering that question when she looked into Ronan’s eyes. He was the answer, she thought. He made her feel beautiful and sexy and desirable. And even as the thought crossed her mind, desire arced between them like chain lightning.
“We’ll take this one,” Ronan said. “And these two. And this one.”
She felt her cheeks grow warm when she glanced at the photos he had chosen. She had been looking at him, thinking of him, when the photographer snapped the pictures.
“Do you think I could have one for my parents?” she asked.
“Certainly,” he said. “Pick whichever one you want.”
Ronan paid for the photographs and they left the studio.
“I thought you only needed one picture for the book jacket,” she remarked as they walked to the car.
“We do,” he said. “The other three are for me.”
“Oh.” She didn’t know what else to say. It was incredible that he wanted her picture. Incredible and flattering.
She was getting into the car when she noticed that Ronan was still standing on the sidewalk, staring at something across the street.
Following his gaze, Shannah saw a blond-haired man standing on the opposite curb. He was staring at Ronan.
“Is that someone you know?” she asked when he finally got behind the wheel.
“In a manner of speaking.”
“I take it he isn’t a friend of yours.”
Ronan grunted softly as he started the car and pulled away from the curb.
Shannah glanced out the back window. The man was still standing on the curb, staring after them.
“Who is he?”
“No one of importance. We’ll be leaving for Los Angeles tomorrow night.”
“So soon?”
He nodded.
“I’ve never been on a plane before.”
“Are you afraid of flying?”
“I don’t know.” She grinned at him. “I guess we’ll find out tomorrow night.”
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