Shaken (18 page)
Authors: Heather Long
Tags: #Romance, #Fated Desires, #Heather Long, #Contemporary
Totally out of place in a tattoo shop, at least in most shops.
Midnight Ink didn’t discriminate. They knew some people had to hide their ink because of work so they made sure it looked hella good underneath their clothes.
This woman though?
Totally out of place.
And lost.
Shep smiled.
He could totally help her with that.
Sassy stood by the woman, her brow raised. “Honey, you sure you want this one? I know you were looking at something else a minute ago.”
The woman turned and bit her lip, forcing Shep to hold back a groan.
Holy fuck. He was acting like some teenager with a hard-on, rather than a not-so-young man with a hard-on.
Sassy spotted him and waved him over. “Here’s Shep, honey. He’ll be the one to ink you since he has time and you said it didn’t matter who did it. Shep, this is Shea. She’s all yours.” Sassy raised that brow again and Shep smiled.
Oh, yes. He wanted to get his hands on this woman in every way possible.
Ink would be just the first step.
The woman turned toward him, and Shep bit back a curse.
Fuck.
That wasn’t just indecision in her eyes. That was pure fear mixed with something else. Something like determination.
The kind of determination that led to inked regrets.
Sassy walked away, leaving Shep and Shea alone in the corner, a stack of albums between them.
“So, uh, Shep,” she started, her voice just as smooth and sexy as it had been outside. “Sorry again for walking into you earlier.”
“Like I said, it’s no problem.”
“So, uh, I guess you’ll be giving me my tattoo? I think I want this little daisy. Or maybe this butterfly. Can you do that?”
Shep looked down her body, her out-of-place clothes, the fear sliding right off her, and her weight shifting from foot to foot. He raised his gaze and met her eyes.
“No.”
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