When he turned, she’d put a bandana over her hair. A shiver went through her at the sight, like a secret between The back of his T-shirt rode up, showing a work-hard, sun-kissed swath of skin. He bent, prying open a can of paint, pouring it into a pan.

“Sometimes you just need to make a clean break.” She’d come back to Seattle with very little that had decorated the home in LA she’d shared with Jeremy and Adele. I used to have more furniture, but the divorce, you know.” He shrugged. This one had drop cloths down, and painter’s tape had been put around the windows and at the ceiling. He dragged her down a hall into another room.

And, not to be nitpicky or anything, but um, shouldn’t you have more than this?” Now is this the room you wanted to paint? If so, dude, you haven’t even moved the furniture. “Like I’d run away? You promised Thai food and beer. She liked that he sought her out, liked the way he kissed the back of her neck. “There you are.” He came back into the room and moved directly to her. She knew he had both, or he did before anyway.Ī knot of tension loosened at that realization and then agitation rolled through her. Not in the way of a woman who has marked a space she was a regular part of. Things were arranged in a feminine way, but not in the way a woman does when she’s a lover. She looked around the front room they’d been in. Laid Bare will be out in just a bit over a month – I thought I’d toss out a scene from early on in the book after Todd has returned to Seattle and he and Erin are getting to know each other again.

Laid bare by lauren dane