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ASHLEY
“You’ll be working with my uncle Ryan—you met him—and my oldest
brother, Dale,” Diana says during our drive from California to Snow Creek,
Colorado.
“Right. The adopted one.”
“Yeah. My parents adopted him and Donny when Mom was pregnant
with me. That’s why they’re so much older than Bree and me.”
“I hate to ask,” I say, “but why would your parents adopt two kids when
they were already pregnant?”
“The boys’ natural mother committed suicide, and they never knew their
father. I’m not exactly sure how my parents got involved.”
“You never asked?”
She shakes her head. “It never mattered to me. They’re my big brothers in
every way that counts. I love them.”
I’ve seen photos of Diana with her brothers and younger sister, Brianna.
Dee and Bree—cute, huh?—are dark-haired and dark-eyed, like their father,
Talon Steel, while the brothers are blond and green-eyed.
And definitely male model material.
Donny, the younger, has dark-blond hair, but Dale, the older, is more
honey blond.
I’m looking very forward to meeting them both.
“Ash…”
“Yeah?”
“Don’t count on adding my brothers to the notches on your bedpost.”
I roll my eyes. “I wouldn’t do that.”
“Ash…”
“Okay,” I admit. “Maybe I would. Is it a sin to like sex?”
“Of course not. I like it myself, though not as much as you seem to.”
I’m not ashamed of my rich sex life. Diana knows this. “It’s an adventure.
Each man is different.”
“I know, but it’s still just sex. What is sex without love?”
She doesn’t get it, and I don’t expect her to. I get more from sex than the
average woman because of my synesthesia. I’ve tried to explain it to her and
countless others, but how can I when their sounds don’t have colors and their
emotions don’t have flavors? How do I explain the gorgeous gold of a Mozart
opera or the neon pink of rock and roll? Non-synesthetes don’t get it.
So yeah, I have a lot of sex. I like one-nighters. It’s part of who I am. But
I’m always careful. A disease or unwanted pregnancy would put a definite
kink in my plans to become a master sommelier.
I met Diana a month ago at UCLA, where she just finished her master’s
in architecture. I’m an oenology doctoral candidate. Weird that we crossed
paths at a wine lecture and hit it off, but we did. Diana was there because her
uncle Ryan Steel was speaking. We ended up sitting next to each other, and
after the lecture, she introduced us.
So here I am, on my way to Colorado for an internship at Steel
Vineyards. For the next three months, I’ll experience every part of the
winemaking process, from harvest to ageing and bottling.
I can’t wait.
Winemaking isn’t my chosen path. Wine tasting and selling is, but, as
Diana pointed out, an internship at her family’s winery will give me valuable
insight and perspectives on terroir and everything else about the process.
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