Hunter had to work to get Gwen to open up even a tiny bit at their dinner but he managed to do it by flirting with her. It wasn't hard. She was the most beautiful woman he had ever met and sometimes it was hard to keep his head on straight when he was talking to her because of it.
They both managed to sidestep what they truly did for work during the small talk portion of the evening before he got things going. That was when he realized she cared about art more than he originally thought. He could use that.
People were usually happy to talk about what they liked in depth. Gwen Frost was no exception.
What surprised him was that she was genuinely talented. What he said about her art being better than most of the seniors in the art department at his university wasn't an exaggeration.