Releasing:
February 12th, 2015
Blurb:
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?
Excerpt:
“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.”
About Meghan March
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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