Page 15 of Tattoo My Heart
“We’re almost even now,” she declares. “You just need to make a baby with this guy now so that we can be completely even.”
“I don’t even know what you’re talking about,” I snort, but don’t take my eyes off Cal…
I mean, Khail. I definitely mean Khail.
“Do you think this is how Cal looks without a shirt on?” It’s like Carrie can read my mind, I swear. It’s kind of freaky.
“Most definitely,” I grin at the screen without realizing. “Because if not, he really is just a waste of a pretty face, don’t you think?”
“Evie,” she elbows me lightly, but I don’t spare her a glance.
“I wonder how many hours he had to sit for all this, you know?” I continue, completely oblivious to my surroundings.
In my mind, I am staring at Cal Prentice’s insanely hot and toned body. I used to daydream about him taking his shirt off and just yanking me into him, taking my mouth in a scorching kiss.
“I really hope he is not an asshole like Cal is though. That would be so disappointing…”
“Evie,” Carrie tries to interrupt me again, but I’m not done.
“I can’t wait for him to see me walking in with the hottest dude the internet could find me. Because I refuse to believe he is not hot in the front, too. These tattoos have to wrap around him like a…”
“Evie!” Carrie literally pulls on my hair now. “Stop talking!”
“What?” I move away from her, trying to get out of her reach.
“Someone wants to say hi.” She gives me a nervous but amused nonetheless smile and points to the side.
My jaw about drops to the ground when I look up and come face to face with my arch enemy.
“Cal Prentice,” I mutter through clenched teeth.
“Evie, queen of blowjobs,” he grins at me. “We have to quit meeting like this.”
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I was startingto think that my idea of asking Evie out through theHolidatesapp was lame as hell. They do ask for all your legal information to run a background check on you, but you don’t have to post your actual legal name on there.Khailwas as creative as I could come up with, way too close to my real name, while I also wish I would’ve just left is asCal.
But now, as I catch Evie, the woman who I was hoping to catch in my web of innocent lies, ogling my tattooed back showing in the picture I uploaded on the site, I thank my lucky stars for going along with James’ idea.
“Evie, queen of blowjobs,” I tease her, reminding us both of the comment she made in the grocery store only days ago. “We have to quit meeting like this.”
To say that she is shocked doesn’t even begin to cover it. I want to laugh, but at the same time, I am turned on. Besides, no matter how much I love teasing her and getting a rise out of her, I don’t want to completely alienate her. Not now when I finally came to terms with the fact that I want to make her mine.
“What are you doing here?” she snaps at me. She doesn’t sound happy at all to see me. We’ll have to change that.
I point to a vacant building across the street from where we are.
“I came to look at a place for my shop.”
“Here?” she screeches. “In my town?”
My eyebrows go up in surprise and amusement.
“Well, Evie, I didn’t know you owned the whole town. Am I not allowed to be in your territory?”
“My… you…”
She looks so damn adorable, sitting here on this bench, at a loss for words, and with the cellphone clutched to her chest.
