Chapter 27

Two days later . . .

Lacey was in her studio at home slowly working on the portrait of Blake. She had started the project in hopes of working him out of her system through art but it didn’t seem like it was working. It just made her think of him more.

There was a part of her that just wanted to be over it and him. But after seeing him two days ago at his penthouse, the other part of her yearned for him more than what she had during the last part of the summer.

She exhaled heavily. She had to admit a man had never gone through the trouble to be with her the way Blake has. Granted, she hadn’t appreciated being abducted from her first showing at Early’s but it was one heck of a move.

When she had confided in her mother about why she had disappeared for so long from the art showing, she had scoffed with disgust. “Goodness. What kind of a man does something like that?”

A man in love, Lacey’s thought with wonder.