Meghan March
Beneath This Ink
Beneath This Ink
Releasing: February 12th, 2015
I’ve always known she was too good for me, but that never
stopped me from wanting her.
And then I finally had her for one night.
A night I don’t remember.
I figured I’d blown my shot.
But now she’s walked back into my life, and this time, I
have the upper hand. I want my second chance.
Will she be able to see the man beneath this ink?
“Con, can you take this walk-in?” Delilah called from the
front of the shop.
I pushed back from the desk and
shoved my hair away from my face. It was too damn long. I needed to get it cut,
but the girl I’d been going to for the last year had basically fallen onto my
cock last week, and I wasn’t going to be letting her near my jugular with scissors
any time soon. She wasn’t enamored of my, ‘I don’t go there twice unless
there’s something worth going back for’ mentality. I probably could have
phrased it a little nicer, but why give the girl false hope when I’d all but
forgotten her as soon as I’d slid the condom off my dick? I didn’t have time
for bullshit, and I didn’t like to be misunderstood when I spoke. So I was
firmly in the ‘tell it how it is’ camp. Women didn’t seem to appreciate my
particular brand of honesty. Mostly because it didn’t line up with what they
wanted to hear. Not my problem.
I stood and headed for the door of
the break room. Time to meet my newest walk-in.
If I had to tattoo one more “YOLO”
on some idiot kid, I might hang up my tattoo gun and call it a day. Thoughts
like that made me feel older than thirty-one.
I scanned the shop, looking for my
next client. If I hadn’t learned a hell of a long time ago how to lock down my
reactions, I might’ve missed a step.
It was no kid.
And if she wanted YOLO tattooed on
that body, it’d be a crime against nature. Anger flared within me at the sight
of her. I might not remember the night we’d spent together, but I sure as hell
remembered the morning after when I’d interrupted her escape from my bedroom.
We’d thrown words like grenades, and it was a miracle we’d both walked away
without bloodshed. Even with that memory vividly replaying in my head, I still
had to tell my dick to calm the fuck down.
Vanessa Fucking Frost was still out
of my league. Hell, out of my fucking universe. She’d been too good for me in
high school, she’d been too good for me two years ago, and as sure as she was
standing in my shop today, she was still too damn good for me. And I bet she’d
be the first person to say it. I still couldn’t figure out how she’d ended up
in my bed that night. Not because my bed didn’t see action with rich chicks—it
saw plenty—but not like her. Classic elegance like Grace Kelly. Joy Leahy used
to make me watch To Catch a Thief with
her, and that’s exactly who Vanessa reminded me of.
Her platinum blond hair was twisted
up into some fancy ass bun, and her tan skirt suit clung to her curves in all
the right places. One perfectly manicured hand toyed with the gold bracelet on
her wrist. My jeans tightened uncomfortably at the peek of a lacy pink bra from
beneath her pink silk blouse.
My reaction to her pissed me off.
Do you know what it’s like to finally get something you’ve always
wanted, but not remember a single fucking detail?
It ate away it me. The not knowing.
Part of me wanted to tell her to get the hell out of my shop, but the other
part of me wanted to drag her upstairs, strip her naked, and tie her to my bed
so this time she couldn’t leave until I was damn good and ready. Which might be
never. And that thought—that weakness—infuriated me.
“Never thought I’d see you darken
my doorway again. What can I do for you, princess?” A mocking edge colored my
words.
Her nervous twirling of her bracelet
halted, and her blue eyes, several shades lighter and more vibrant than my own,
met mine. Her pink tongue darted out over her perfectly plump bottom lip
slicked with gloss. This nervous, off-balance look of hers raised all my red
flags. I was used to the quiet, sexy-as-all-hell confidence that had always
drawn me in. At least until she’d opened her mouth that infamous morning and
told me what she’d really thought of me.
“I need a few moments of your
time.”
I raised an eyebrow. Now that was a
new development. She’d never sought me out.
“Is that so?”
“Yes, if you could spare me five
minutes.”
Some of her words from that
morning, which I might as well have tattooed on my skin, came back to me: Do this again? Are you crazy? I must have
been insane to do this the first time. This can never happen again. And no
one can ever know. No one.
And now she wanted a favor?
“In this shop, the only way a woman
gets my time is if she’s getting a tattoo, or is on her knees or her back.” I
knew my answer was crude, but that was what she undoubtedly expected from me.
And I hated to disappoint.
A flush of color hit her
cheekbones, and I wondered for a brief second whether she was remembering what
it had been like to be on her knees in front of me. Fuck. I wish I remembered. Then I could just fucking move on.
I waited for the clipped go to hell and an abrupt exit. But
instead of turning and walking out, she surprised me.
“A tattoo it is, then.”
Meghan March is a Michigan native who
has spent a good portion of her life buried in a book. Case in point: she read
the entire romance section of her small town public library by age fourteen.
Even after growing up (sort of) and getting a law degree, she never lost her
passion for a great story, twisty plot, epic romance, and amazing characters.
When she’s not writing, she’s probably reading, target shooting, drooling over
fast cars, or playing with her crazy mutt.
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