Taboo: Ties and Sins
Her stomach tightened.
Across the room, leaning against the frame of a door leading to the administrative offices, Sebastian Cruz watched. Not the crowd, not the general reaction to his exhibition. He watched her. The woman in the wine-colored dress.
Sebastian was not a man easily impressed by conventional beauty. His hands, marked by welding scars and metal cuts, sculpted beauty from the pain and resistance of materials. He saw the world in forms, tensions, and textures. And the woman before his centerpiece, "Ecstasy and Agony No. 7," was the most fascinating form he had seen all night.