Page 72 of Tattooed Love

“What song is this?” The blonde asked, as “Changed the Way You Kissed Me” by Example played. Adam told her what it was.

“So, Amber, which one is yours?” El winked at me, and then glanced between Cole and Tyler.

I began to choke on nothing, as I visualized what she was saying to me.

Cole and Tyler looked in complete horror as they waited for me to correct her.

“They’re her brothers,” Jax answered for me, and I nodded my head. El seemed slightly surprised by this little bit of information and then looked at me.

“I didn’t know you had brothers.”

“You know what Amber, I am starting to think you are ashamed of us,” Adam winked at me, helping the blonde down the stairs.

“Denial is one step closer to acceptance, I suppose,” I shot at him, and then cocked my head to look at Jax. He snapped his eyes away from me as soon as I looked at him.

“So Amber, tell me what is new with you?” El said, being friendly, as she began to walk in the water towards me.

God shoot me, or at least give me duct tape, so I can tape that mouth of hers shut. I was not in the mood to make conversation.

“You know… nothing much. You?”

I swung my legs out in front of me as I gripped the edge of the pool.

“This, that and everything in-between,” she finally replied, and leaned against the pool wall next to me; of course.

“Exciting,” I replied and then looked at Adam and the blonde who were mucking around with each other. “Who’s she?” I nodded my head in their direction.

“That’s Gab. She’s an underwear model,” El answered, and then flipped her head back to look up at Jax, who was yet to grace us with his presence in the water.

“You coming in?” she asked him sweetly.

“Yeah Jax, get your gear off, and get in here with your girlfriend,” I spun around and said up to him. I was over this silent thing that we had going on at the moment.

“I’m not his girlfriend. I don’t do boyfriends remember,” El informed me as she blushed.

“That’s not what I heard Jax say last night.” I smiled up at him innocently, while he narrowed his eyes at me.

El looked up at me and frowned slightly. “What do you mean?” she asked.

“Hey, it’s not my place to tell you the one thing Jax loves about you.”

Yeah Jax, why don’t you tell her that she is only good for one thing. I wanted to slap him across his face for his views on women.

“What is she on about?” El looked up at Jax, while he crossed his arms, keeping his eyes on me.

I knew he knew what I was on about. I wondered if he was shocked that I had heard his confession; well, it had been more of a statement.

“Who knows,” Jax said coolly. “You still high on your boyfriend’s drug fumes, Amber?”

“I don’t have a boyfriend, so the answer to that question would be no.” I cocked my head to the side. “You really can’t remember Jax? Well, you said it just before you went to bed last night. Come on, you know what I am referring to.”

Jax shrugged his shoulders innocently, and added, “El already knows I care about her. I don’t think that would surprise her.”

“You do?” Ella’s eyes widened in surprise.

“Doesn’t look like it,” I sang, floating away from them.

Jax shot me a dirty look before looking at El. I wonder how he was going to get out of this. “I don’t do girlfriends El, you know that, but, if I did, you would be the one.”

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