praise her.
 
 After another long round of snaps and clicks, he finally
 
 lowered his camera. Cassia didn’t dare hope she was done.
 
 She had no idea that it was so grueling to sit or stand and let
 
 someone else capture her image. She was a little surprised
 
 when Rodger walked over and showed her a couple of the last
 
 shots.
 
 She was floored. She hardly recognized herself. She’d
 
 straightened her long, white-blonde hair and worn minimal
 
 makeup, as she’d been instructed. The angles made her look
 
 like a different person. She knew she was pretty, but these
 
 shots…holy crap. They made her look beyond anything she
 
 could have imagined. When Rodger said she looked like a
 
 goddess, she now believed him. It was incredible. He was very
 
 talented, much more so than she expected, but now she
 
 realized that thinking that Stu would hire a mediocre
 
 photographer to entice people to want to pay crazy rates for
 
 their services was a stupid assumption on her part. Obviously,
 
 those photos had to be incredible.
 
 “Don’t worry about a thing,” Rodger said kindly. He’d
 
 probably noticed that she’d tensed up tight. “A lot of girls
 
 haven’t done anything like this. Not just girls. There are men
 
 working here too. Even they get nervous the first few times
 
 they go out on jobs.”
 
 “I’m just waitressing and doing companionship,” she said
 
 quickly, because part of her still didn’t want Rodger to think it
 
 was anything more than that.
 
 He took that in stride and nodded. She could smell his
 
 cologne because he was so close. It was woodsy and not
 
 unpleasant. He had a nice smile and soft eyes. She wondered if