Page 70 of Tattooed Love

“Good, good.” She nodded her head and although her smile was friendly, her body language was anything but. “I heard you and Blake are back together?”

Ella, or El as she was more often known as, was a pornstar; or at least she used to be. She was now a high class model for porn commercials. She was also one of many in the long string of ex-girlfriends Blake had; a list I was now a part of. Although her and I were friendly, we both knew she hated me. Basically, Blake had broken up with her, well… he didn’t even really break up with her because he didn’t ever really call her his girlfriend, but, when it came down to it, he ‘broke’ up with her to date me.

“No, we’re not actually.” I plastered a fake smile and glanced at Jax and then back at her “So you got a new man, El? Good for you.”

El glanced at Jax and then back at me nervously. “I don’t do relationships anymore.” She stood up slightly taller, adding, “Not when I have an endless list of men.”

I nodded my head. “Fair enough.”

“So what, you were just staying with Blake then? You guys weren’t actually back together?” Her eyebrows frowned together as she waited for my response.

What could I say? Pornstars have the looks, just evidently not very good hearing.

“Yep. He was helping me out, like I said before.” I reached behind me and pulled my door closed “Well, I better be going.”

“Wait Am!”

I turned my eyes back to El; of course she had more questions. “Yep?”

She nodded her head in the direction of my bedroom door. “So, whose room is that?” She smiled, kind of evil, at me.

I frowned for a moment, and then realized she didn’t know I lived here. I hid my smirk. If she knew I lived across from the room of the guy she had lined up as her next man, she would be here every night.

“Wouldn’t you like to know?” I smirked slightly, and then walked away from them, quickly.

Jax didn’t say anything, nor did he make an attempt to speak to me as I darted away from them. Looks like I was really missed, I scoffed to myself. Who was I kidding?

Jax was a player. A cold hearted one at that.

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I dangled my feet in the heated pool, and my phone buzzed beside me. I reached for it and opened the message. Seeing Blake’s number on the screen, I sighed lowly before I read it.

‘This song reminds me of you. Just thought I would let you know.’

Frowning, I pulled my feet out from the pool and walked to the side, plugging the aux cable into my phone and clicking on the link to the file that was in the message. I pushed play and slowly the surround sound system came to life.

“You were my everything” by Aviation began to echo through the enclosed pool area. I pulled the t-shirt off and flung it to the side. Walking down the stairs into the pool, I smiled as I heard the lyrics.

The water swallowed my body until I slowly got on my back and floated across the water. Listening to every word pulled at my heartstrings. Should I go back to him?

The only part of the song that didn’t fit was the new man line. I didn’t have a new man, and perhaps that was a good thing.

We were over, but I knew he would always love me just like I would always love him.

“What the hell is this soft crap?”

I got on my feet and looked at the side of the pool at Cole, who reached for my phone and unplugged it.

“Are you going soft on us, Amber?” Cole gave me a cocky grin before he reached for his phone and plugged it in.

“What are you doing in here?” I tried to mask my irritation.

“You mean what are we doing here?” Tyler corrected me, strolling towards the pool. “And to answer your question… swimming with you.”

“NO you are not,” I grunted, and then glared at the two of them. “Don’t you have something better to do?”

“I thought they were lying to me when they told me this morning that you were back,” Tyler shot me his easy going grin and pulled his t-shirt off, putting his toned muscles and tattoos on display.

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