Page 76 of Soaring in Flames (Reborn 2)
Ah. Wasn’t that fascinating. I was pretty damn positive that most people didn’t give a fuck in this industry about exploiting one another. However, Maya was always a different story.
Maya spoke softly with a friendly smile, “Trust me, it’s completely okay.”
“Well I have some fantastic options.” The younger woman turned and began pulling forth pictures. I could literally feel the excitement amp up and I moved over Maya’s shoulders as she began to sort through pictures. One jumped out to me far more than the others, I placed my fingers on it as she turned her focus on it.
“I love that,” she chimed.
I did as well. It was less of a posed picture but Maya was smiling and everyone was offering her different levels of affection. You could quite literally see how much each of us cared about her. I wanted that picture blown up and framed in her room so whenever she felt insecure she could look at that and remember how we felt about her.
“This one,” she commented softly, “can you get me a copy by chance? It’s amazing.”
“Of course,” Alanza promised. As we left the room, Henry stayed back with the others a moment to no doubt make sure the contracts and photograph release forms were up to date.
I followed Maya like a fucking pup as we passed office after office, my eyes tracing the authentic happiness that beamed from her face. I would have asked Maya if she wanted to see the other companies in the building but I had a feeling that Alanza would kill me if I tried to take Maya away from her.
“Would you like to see one of the shoots we have going on?” Alanza asked curiously.
Christ. I would lose my mind if she wanted to go into modeling. Maybe this was a bad idea. I did not want her on display for the entire world. Fuck, Marco would have my fucking head. It wasn’t often I came across someone who was more dominant than myself, but Marco was, for sure. I could have probably tried to supersede him but frankly I didn’t want that kind of bad blood and he did a fantastic job taking care of everyone, so I followed suit. Plus, it left me far more time to be focused on Maya.
“Sure,” Maya chirped as the three of us walked up a set of stairs to enter into a massive industrial room. There were several shoots going on but I could hear excitement and energy from one end of the room, no doubt featuring a higher name.
“Alanza,” I stated after passing two of the large sets going on, “we are going to need to leave fairly soon actually.”
Maya was looking a bit tired so I could see slight relief at that. Alanza nodded, “No problem, do you have time for one more thing? I heard you are planning to go to an event tonight and if you don’t have a dress yet, we have some that you may like. I know the designers would be thrilled to see you in them.”
“Maya?” I asked, wanting to make sure she wasn’t too tired.
“I would love to take a look,” Maya nodded as I pressed a gentle hand to her back. I had no idea what Marco had been planning for her to wear but as Henry joined us he seemed to agree with her sorting through the dresses available.
As I took a chair near the large fitting room, I watched her sort through designer dresses. I started cursing every designer from Chanel to Versace when I realized just how fucking little material all of them had. This was going to go badly...well, either bad or end in me tackling her to the ground and marking her soft neck with my mating mark.
Guess we would see.
