I’d also asked a couple of our neighbours to come and join us in our celebration. I hadn’t told the neighbours what we were celebrating although I...believe a couple of them were not too surprised when I announced that Jordan and I had become engaged. Soon the party was over, Trish and Wilson had gone back to their hotel for the night and I took my new bride-to-be to bed. Our lovemaking that night was slow, sensuous and gentle as befitted the occasion.The next morning we had breakfast with Trish. She said yes, but didn't think anything would happen. I told her to remove her bra and panties when she went to the house. she was wearing a light sundress and it would show when she was next to the fire. She agreed and went in as he came out. I figured I would do the I'm drunk routine and give them some time alone if they looked at all like they would be having some fun. She came back out and Jim's eyes got like saucers. Peggy had removed all her clothes and put on a skimpy lingerie and said. After I finished the preliminary designs, I started the series of paintings for the Santa Fe show: Santa Fe Landscapes. I wanted to call the series Alana in Santa Fe, but with her death sentence and the possible publicity we'd receive from the opening, I couldn't. The paintings featured Alana both wearing clothes and nude in front of backdrops of Santa Fe scenes. I completed the series just before the New York show. Erin said she'd schedule the Santa Fe opening for the week before. ‘How do you know it says anything?’ ‘I recognise the style. Someone wants us to know something, but doesn’t want to be seen telling us. So a bit of reverse pick-pocketing leaves us with the info.’ ‘Why give it to me though? I might have thrown it away.’ ‘Whoever it was just wanted the chance to get close to you I suppose.’ I smiled. I almost laughed out loud at the shudder she gave when she thought about what I’d said. ‘Come on, read it out Emmy.’ She unfolded the paper and quickly scanned it..