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I walked up to her because I had to meet the person who’d wanted my design and who’d waited on me for weeks to tattoo her, but Vince ended up doing it.
“Hey, I’m Hunter, the one who designed your tattoo. It looks fantastic. Not that I am biased or anything.”
Her face broke out into smile. “I’m Millie.” She peered at me. “You look more like Chase with your hair so short. Why’d you cut it?”
Mariska held a jean jacket over her arm as she and Bri came through the doors. Mariska’s calm expression eased the guilt that has been churning inside of me. I wasn’t worthy of feeling good about myself after I talked to her like being a virgin was a malady, but she shouldn’t have let me be the first man to touch her. I shouldn’t have allowed myself to get so damn carried away. Beth and Chase would kill me.
This evening her usually pretty long brown curly hair was bone straight. She wore a strapless dress in what my mother would call seashell white. It showcased those mile long legs of hers. I’d felt how soft her legs were and learned how she’d used the toned muscles in her thighs to keep my head in place. I hadn’t thought she would’ve been so strong, not even when she was about to orgasm. A reluctant smile tugged at my lips like a damn loon, before I cut my gaze back to Millie.
“Someone I knew liked me to have it short,” I answered, remembering how Nana would push my hair from my face when I was a kid. She’d told me that a fine man ought to show his face to the world.
“That someone,” she put emphasis on the word someone, “has got the right idea.”
“It’s great to finally meet you. I’m going to include some of my new designs in the coming week if you decide that you want another one.”
Millie winked at me. “I went all out,” she lowered her head and light shone on the first swirl of her dragon tat, “for my first tat. You think I am going to stop here? Nope. And my boyfriend Jared loves it. I want more tats, but I have to save up for it. I would’ve met you at Beth’s birthday party, but I couldn’t change my plans last minute.”
“I thought we’d cross paths eventually,” I said and Bri gave me a brisk nod. I waved at her and took a step back from Millie. While Mariska and Bri didn’t look uncomfortable, I could tell that they hadn’t been at a tattoo shop before.
Mariska didn’t even shoot a glance in my direction and I was an asshole for admitting that I’d expected her to gape at me out of pent up anger. She looked like a wounded animal when I’d left her with her parents and Scott. Had they gone on a second date? I drank in her penetrating dark eyes when Vince came out to welcome them into his room. He gave Mariska a warm handshake and his gaze momentarily fell to the shape of her pretty little breasts. I wanted to remind him that he was married but I held back. Mariska ducked her head. Vince’s focus returned to her face. Millie and the other girl giggled, but Mariska’s expression became serious, but it wasn’t grim.
As they followed Vince to his room, I wondered if Mariska or Bri was thinking about getting their nipples pierced. I didn’t want Vince to give her a piercing. I didn’t want him to see her tits. Did she want a barbell or a bead ring? What shape would she like a barbell ring or bead ring to be? Would she be kinky enough to get a different ring on each of her nipples?
Vince came out with Millie, Mariska, and their friend less than an hour later and went up front to pay Manny. When I saw Mariska give Manny some cash, I felt like opening the jean jacke
t she had on now and checking to see if any nipple jewelry pressed against the top of her dress. She had this giddy look on her face and it was driving me crazy. She was going out of her way to ignore me.
“Thanks Vince,” Millie called out as they were halfway through the door.
“Thanks, Vince,” Mariska said, the side of her face quirked up. “I hardly felt a thing. I think it’ll spice up my life a little more.”
“Anytime, ladies. Be safe,” Vince said and Manny echoed his words. I felt like wiping that smile off of his face.
I found myself walking through the doors. The three of them were walking toward their cars already.
“Mariska.”
Bri and Millie glanced at Mariska when she pivoted around and stood still.
“What’s up Hunter?” she addressed me in a friendly tone that didn’t match up with her inscrutable expression.
I gestured for her to walk toward me, since I didn’t want her friends to listen to what I had to say.
“I am not walking back. I’ve been on my feet all day and I wanna get back on campus to check on my piercings,” she said, but I understood the hidden “go fuck yourself” in her words.
“Hunter,” Vince said, holding the door open. “A potential client called in for a consultation and she’ll be here soon. I’m about to bounce.”
Mariska’s eyes appraised me for a second, and then she said something to her friends as they went into their cars. I didn’t know if it was about me or not. Bri and Millie didn’t look at me again. I went inside to prepare for my walk-in.
Chapter 12
Mariska
“WHY’D YOU BRUSH HUNTER off?” Bri asked me as she sprawled out on my futon. Millie couldn’t wait to get to Jared and put her new piercing to use. We’d said our goodbyes and said that we’d meet up again. I’d said that I’d drag Beth from Chase, work, or her study group for one night if that’s what it took for her to hang out with us.
“Whatever he had to say can wait.” I unzipped the duffel bag that I hadn’t unpacked since I returned yesterday morning. Beth, Jake, and I had spent the day together and most of the evening, until Beth left to spend the night at Chase’s. We’d listened to songs from Tainted Virtue on the radio and then we’d fallen asleep.
“It sounded pretty important from the way he was staring at you.” Bri’s emerald eyes flared with awareness. “Mariska, did you hook up with him?” she asked on a gasp and straightened her shoulders as she sat up.
