Summer Thorne, however, buried herself deeper into his embrace, as if deliberately hiding her face from him.
Yet the blush that crept up to her ears still gave her away.
Timothy York's gaze lingered. After a long moment, he wrapped his arms tightly around her, leaned in, and gently pressed a kiss to the base of her hot, red ear.
…
The next day, it wasn't until the afternoon that Summer Thorne received news from Silas Dunn.
"The intel I got is that Howard Tate took the painting and gave it to Madam Draper," said Silas Dunn. "I just don't get it. How can one painting change hands so many times? Do you think that Madam Draper has some sort of connection to your mom—er, *cough*, to Mrs. Shaw, so she passed the painting on to her? You know, this is a matter for their social circles. It's really not my place to keep digging."
