Paul sat in his high backed chair, gazing intently at the empty canvas that stood before him. He was a talented artist and only a few had had the good fortune to witness his creations. The loft that he currently occupied was his weekend sojourn. And every weekend, he would invite a woman, who had held his fancy for that particular week, to spend the weekend with him. As he had inherited a vast fortune, a lavish lifestyle was not unfamiliar to Paul. His aristocratic bearing and features had earned him the affections and adulation of many a woman. The machinations of the female mind greatly intrigued him.
He picked up a pencil with a long fingered, elegant hand and, having tested the sharpness of the point, placed the base of his palm upon the rough surface of the canvas. But he did not draw anything yet. His storm grey eyes darkened as he thought of the object of his fascination, the woman who would be joining him shortly. The woman who would be spending the weekend in his loft, a weekend which promised to be quite entertaining.
He had met her at a Jazz music bar and, later that evening, had enjoyed a stimulating conversation with her at a restaurant. They had talked about darkness. Paul found it rather amusing that Vanessa, a pale skinned beauty, held darkness in such high regards. As he thought about her, he pictured her flaming red hair and her brilliant green eyes. Eyes that glowed with a fierce passion as the conversation blossomed. Paul smiled as he checked his grip upon the pencil, he now knew what he wanted to draw.
He traced the outline of her almond shaped eyes, remembering her features in vivid detail. That was one of his other gifts. He was highly attentive and observant to that which interested him and he remembered every detail of it. Once the outline was completed, he drew her emerald irises. Although the portrait would be a black and white one, his mind remembered the exact color and texture of her emerald eyes. And so, he now gazed upon a reproduction of her dazzling eyes upon his canvas and smiled. He remembered staring into those very eyes and feeling something stir within him. He had felt lust and admiration surge through his veins till they rushed into his powerful heart from where they were pumped to every cell in his body.