In addition, Winston was good-looking, with dark eyes and dark hair, a square chin, and a pale, flawless complexion.

Winston, who was seventeen, would someday inherit a bazillion dollars his father ran a hedge fund with offices in Birmingham, Alabama, and Manhattan. The camera sat on a tripod in the bathroom doorway, with Winston behind it. A smaller light sat directly behind her, braced on a toilet seat, providing a rim light that gave a soft glow to her auburn hair. THERE WERE LED light panels to her left and right, dimmed by photo umbrellas that would kill any harsh shadows. Right now, Coil’s main preoccupation wasn’t with Winston’s junk, but with his totally erect Nikon Z6 camera. though, not yet.Īll of that was neither here nor there. They hadn’t yet fully engaged with each other, but were edging toward it.

Neither Coil nor Winston was a virgin, having dispensed with that handicap in the fifth form, known in less snotty schools as eleventh grade. Winston’s penis, of which Coil had seen perhaps seven or eight iPhone views in a variety of penile moods, was not clearly different than the penises of a dozen other classmates that Coil had seen, circulated through the smartphones operated by girls in their final year at The Claridge School-a school with a capital-T in “The,” so it wasn’t some Claridge School, it was The Claridge School, of Reston, Virginia.Īnd Coil suspected that images of her breasts wouldn’t exactly be breaking news among selected males of The Claridge School’s senior class. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.įor our good friend, Cynthia Klahr JohnsonĪudrey Coil and Blake Winston had been sexting each other for weeks. Subjects: LCSH: Davenport, Lucas (Fictitious character)-Fiction. Putnam’s Sons, | Series: A Lucas Davenport novel Names: Sandford, John, 1944 February 23– author.ĭescription: New York : G. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

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