THE ONE I WANT
Chapter One
"I'm not going to make it," Chloe Flynt moaned into the
phone, each word dripping with despair and drama.
"I'm so bored."
She was supposed to be in her oil-painting class, but she
couldn't summon the enthusiasm. Apart from "Study of the
Nude Male", she wasn't having nearly the fun she'd hoped
for. She glanced out the window of her bedroom in the villa.
The golden Umbrian hills reclined under the sun as though
they were enjoying a siesta.
That was the trouble with this place. It was too relaxed.
Slow meals, slow pace of life. No decent shopping for miles.
Oh, the sixteenth century villa was certainly lovely, but she
rather fancied that when she'd bolted from London and her
broken engagement, she'd have been better off heading to
Milan or Rome. Or better yet, Paris. Someplace where there
was some life.
Apart from the rather dishy Tuscan chef who loved nothing
more than to tempt her fickle palate, she wasn't really enjoying
her newly chosen career as a painter.
"Of course you're bored," her friend Nicky said in the
nasal drawl that made her sound like Keira Knightley with a ... read full excerpt from The One I Want ebook
