From: <Redfire@hotmail.com>

To: <MissyMoo@lostindarkness.net>

Dear Melissa,

Wow, what  a couple of years. Tara moved in three days after she painted that stunning portrait. We converted my office upstairs, well not converted exactly but split. I still have my office and Tara has a huge area to paint in. She’s doing so well, I’m proud of her. It fills my heart to see her so happy. Her paintings are selling really well, she gave up the hotel after she sold her third piece.

Turns out that the picture hanging downstairs was the first and only piece she had ever sold…. Guess we were meant to be, I got the picture because of the passion it was painted with, Greg didn’t understand why I loved it the second I saw it. It’s so Tara, couldn’t be any more like her if she’d actually painted herself. I think then I may have loved it more.

The company is doing really, I have to fly out to Paris on Tuesday for a meeting with a bank, they want us to update their software. I hate having to leave Tara but she refuses to come with me, I can’t think why she wants to stay, I mean ‘free holiday’, don’t get those falling at your feet everyday! Oh well, I’m sure she has her reasons, I think she’s missing Vince. Oh, of course, you don’t know! He hooked up with Blaze at my birthday party last year, (can’t believe that’s coming up again), who’d have thought that they would have hit it off as a couple, cruising around for women we expected but this? It’s funny, I never imagined Blaze to be the one to settle down, she’d always scoffed at people in relationships, guess she was just hiding her jealousy.

Tara has a big show coming up soon, a gallery has opened up down in the building she used to live in, how’s that for weird!? Anyway, they were offering space to local artists to display their work, I thought Tara would have been thrilled but I have never seen her so crushed when I told her…. I don’t ever want to be the cause of Tara poutage again!! Turns out she had heard about the gallery and had already been to look but she said they were ripping people off and refused to let me buy her the space, I could tell she wanted it but she can be a little stubborn…. Look who’s talking, uh? I got her a space as a birthday present. The photos are so great, I hope you enjoy them. Isn’t she just the most beautiful woman in the world!?!