Damn, he’s really good looking. Then the rumors about him…could they be true? I would believe them, with looks like that, not to mention his wealth, women probably throw themselves at him left and right.
“Miss Blake?”
Camila startled a bit, surprised to find his eyes staring at her.
“Ah,” she murmured, moving too quickly sit beside him. “Sorry about that.”
Her face was warm, and she just knew she was blushing. She wanted to leave him with a lasting impression, call it her pride as a woman or whatever, but she didn’t want his impression to be of someone so clumsy. She folded her coat over her lap, then pulled her tape recorder out.
“I like to record my interviews,” she said, looking up at him. “Because my memory isn’t so good that I could follow it all, and I may not be able to write everything down, either. I hope you don’t mind.”
“By all means, whatever makes you most comfortable,” Kane said.
Even his voice is attractive, and especially this close,she thought.
“Okay, then,” she said out loud, starting the recorder and placing it down between them. “Mr. Kane, may I please have your story? There are quite a few people interested in who Samuel Kane the man, and not the business mogul, really is.”
His lips pursed as his eyes narrowed on her. “Well, to tell you the truth, there’s not much interesting about Samuel Kane the man.”
“A lot of people would disagree with you,” she said with a smile. “I can’t give you an exact number, but I can assure you that won’t be a problem. Please only speak of whatever you’re comfortable with, no need to divulge any family secrets, but a bit about your background, maybe?”
His reluctance was almost palpable. Camila could see just how badly this man didn’t want to talk about himself, and it made her wonder why he even agreed to this interview in the first place. Maybe because it was for a photoblog, so he wasn’t expecting any prying questions? Not that Camila had any. Or did he expect questions regarding his business life only? That wasn’t really what their blog was about, though, so he should have done some research.
Kane was tight-lipped, and it took a bit of coaxing, before he finally opened his mouth and said what she was looking for.
“There really isn’t that much,” he started. “I’m assuming you’ve done some research on me, but other than business, I don’t let details of my life outside the office leak out into the media. I’m not sure what you would like…”
“Anything,” Camila said quickly. He looked so uncomfortable, like he would change his mind if she didn’t strike while the iron was hot, so she was eager to get something from him. Even something small would be more than anyone else had managed to get. “Maybe your family background, or even where you went to school. What you did before you ventured into business and such.”
“Ah,” he nodded. “Well. Family background, huh… I won’t mention what school I went to, but I can start by saying that I enlisted a couple years after high school. Uh, I did go to college within that time, but I had to cut my studies short, in the end.”
“You were in the army?” she said, surprised.
“Yes, I was. For a number of years. Of course, I can't give you details on what happened while I served in the army. On the family side…my parents weren’t entirely happy with my enlistment, but they went along with whatever I wanted to do. Sadly, they passed away several years ago, and I had two siblings to look after, so I came back. A younger brother and sister.”
“They must have been devastated,” she murmured. “As I’m sure you were, too.”
“It was a hard time for all of us…”
Camila watched him in rapt attention as he spoke a little more about his family situation, and his time in the army. Even though she reacted to the words he said in all the appropriate ways, speaking up where needed, she wasn’t listening, at least not entirely. She was only taking in his words on the surface, but her mind was completely different.
So glad I chose to go with the tape recorder! If I’d trusted my mind, or tried written notes, I would have tanked this interview…
Camila knew she should act more professional, but she couldn’t help it. Maybe because she’d spent so long staring at his picture, that seeing him in real life made her even more fixated on this man. Samuel Kane was too attractive for his own good, or hers, and if this hadn't been an official meeting, she might have even tried…flirting a little bit.
It had been a while since Camila tried flirting with anybody.
Still, her body unconsciously gave her away. She would tuck a stray piece of hair behind her ear, her fingers lingering at her throat. She would cross her legs one way, then the other, causing her dress and the coat on her lap to raise up a bit and flash some thigh. Even when she noticed she kept doing it, she didn’t stop, her heart beating nervously the entire time.
Only, it ended in disappointment for her, because while he kept his eyes on hers as he talked, occasionally looking away or getting lost in thought, he didn’t once look at the rest of her. Camila sighed as she picked up her camera, once she was out of questions for him and Kane had run out of things to say.
“Now that the spoken part of it is over, may I please take a few photos?”
“How do you want me?” he asked.
Camila froze for a second, all sorts of thoughts going through her mind, before she metaphorically shook them all off.
“Um, just act natural. You can look at me, or look at the camera. Even away is good.”