Being married to an Italian, I can totally relate to the idea of food being the thing that brings and holds families together, and with that, I welcome my good friend Cynthia Sax!
JK Coi
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He Watches Me… Eat
It doesn’t matter what the occasion is.
Whenever my family gets together, there’s food. When writers or other coworkers
socialize, it is usually over food or drinks (many, MANY drinks). When friends
come over to my house to visit, I always ensure there’s food on the table.
How, what, where someone eats can tell us a
lot about their character. Anna, the not-so-innocent-yet-virginal heroine of He
Watches Me, is in survival mode. She’s a new graduate. She put herself through
school, taking on student loans, and her job at a charity pays minimum wage.
She can barely cover her expenses.
Anna lives off free samples and day-old
bread. While she’s at work, she eats quickly, seated alone at her desk. She
doesn’t have food to share with others. When coworkers offer her a taste of
their lunch, she says no, rebuffing their offers of friendship, because she
doesn’t have any food to give them in return.
Anna also doesn’t have the money to go out
for drinks after hours with her co-workers. They ask her to join them. She must
say no, again turning down their offers of friendship. At these social functions,
her co-workers bond even tighter, and Anna is left out, becoming more and more
isolated from the others, invisible and alone.
Until she meets Blaine.
When Blaine, the billionaire hero of He
Watches Me, sits down at the dinner table, he shares food for everyone else
before he serves himself. Strangers think this is unusual. He’s an important
man. Shouldn’t he serve himself first? But friends and established business
partners know Blaine puts others first. He protects and feeds the people he
cares about.
Blaine also prefers to order take-out from
the same Chinese restaurant he has frequented since he first founded his
company. Blaine’s loyal. He hasn’t forgotten the people who helped him long
before he was a billionaire and he prefers to build long-term relationships.
This hints that his relationship with Anna might be long-term also.
Will their relationship be long-term?
Blaine is driven to feed and protect the people he cares about. Anna is hungry
yet proud and she has no food to offer Blaine in return. This food conflict is
symbolic of the other conflicts in their relationship.
What do your eating habits say about you?
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She desires to be seen. He wants to watch.
Anna Sampson has a naughty secret. Every
night, she slips into her neighbor’s yard and swims naked in his pool. She
fantasizes that the dynamic young billionaire watches her nightly nude
aquatics, his brilliant green eyes gleaming with lust.
She discovers this isn’t pure fantasy.
Gabriel Blaine has been watching her via his security cameras, and now that he
has returned to L.A., he doesn’t plan to stop. That’s all he wants—to watch.
Anna knows she shouldn’t allow him and she certainly shouldn’t want more, but
she craves Blaine’s attention, needing his gaze fixed on her body.
Part One of The Seen Trilogy
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