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Captured In Ink (Art of Love Series)
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Author: Donna McDonald
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in many cultures. They had been some of his favorite studies for his degree.
    “Great. Ask me anything. For Reesa, I’m an open book,” he said.
    “More like a novella if you ask me,” Jillian said dryly. “How old are you, boy?”
    “Twenty-seven,” Shane said. “How old is Reesa?”
    Twenty-seven , Jillian thought. Well, at least he’s slightly past the twenty-five mark, which Reesa would see as a child for sure.
    Jillian ran an assessing gaze over the entire man again. She distinctly remembered picking Larson out hoping to hook Reesa up with a nice-looking guy wearing a sharp, expensive watch. Reesa hadn’t even considered the nice-looking guy, but had bedded the scruffy-looking Larson without a qualm.
    Doing a mental eye roll at fate, Jillian conceded that he seemed a little older with his unshaven face and shaggy hair. But those piercings—God, there wasn’t a word in Jillian’s vocabulary for a man wearing more jewelry than most women did every day.
    “Don’t judge a book by its cover, honey,” Joe said stiffly from his perch, drawing the woman’s gaze up to his.
    “This is Joseph McEldowney. Joe is my best friend,” Shane explained, watching Joe and Jillian barely acknowledge each other.
    “Reesa is thirty-four,” Jillian said firmly, not willing to let herself be deterred from her questioning by yet another rough looking, smart-mouthed rogue.
    She crossed her arms under her breasts and planted herself more firmly as she waited for Shane’s response. Though Joe approved of the unspoken agreement Jillian and he seemed to have made to ignore each other, he was finding it much harder to ignore her increased cleavage. What was he supposed to do? The woman was practically hoisting her breasts up the ladder to him with her arms crossed that way.
    Shaking his head at his weakness for females, Joe forced his attention back to his task.
    “My brother is thirty-four,” Shane said finally, when he realized Jillian was expecting some reply from him. “I’ve never dated an older woman—should be interesting.”
    “Reesa doesn’t want to date you. In case you didn’t get the whole picture earlier, she has quite a lot going on in her life and it takes up ninety-nine percent of her time. You already had your share of the one percent that’s left,” Jillian told him.
    “It wasn’t enough,” Shane said sincerely. “I want the whole one percent. And I get the challenges. I understand family can be complicated.”
    “Maybe you do, and I’m not saying you don’t, but you can’t really blame her for thinking you wouldn’t get it. You don’t exactly look mature if you know what I mean. It might help everyone’s opinion of you if you shaved and got that hair of yours trimmed into something remotely resembling a style,” Jillian declared. “Zack looks more mature than you.”
    Shane frowned and nodded. He didn’t think his appearance mattered to Reesa, but maybe it did. “Noted. I will shave and get a hair cut. Anything else?”
    “You willing to lose the jewelry?” Jillian asked with a teasing grin.
    “Only what Reesa doesn’t like,” Shane said, smiling wickedly. “Some it of sort of belongs to her now.”
    “ STOP —Sounds like too much information,” Jillian protested, holding up a hand as best friend Joe laughed from above her. “What the hell is it about Reesa Callahan? Would you tell me that? Every man she dates can’t get enough of that tiny woman.”
    Shane thought about Jillian’s question, not liking the fact that there had been men who were serious about Reesa before him. He clamped down on his jealousy and told himself that being seven years older, it was only normal Reesa would have had seven more years of dating experience. He needed to make peace with that quickly.
    “Is there anyone serious in her life now?” Shane asked, frowning.
    “No, but it’s not my place to tell her story to you,” Jillian said, holding up one hand and shaking it as well as her head. “You
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