Dark Ink Tattoo Episode 6 by Cassie Alexander

Author:Cassie Alexander [Alexander, Cassie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Argus Industrial
Published: 2016-09-08T18:30:00+00:00

Paco followed me silently for an entire block. By then we’d regained the crowds of the strip, losing ourselves in them, no one knew who we were, what we’d done. He moved to walk beside me, just two guys out on another night on the town.

“What was that?” he asked casually.

“What?”

“Don’t pretend.”

I pulled up short and sighed. “It was nothing, all right?” I needed to get laid. Already parts of me were paying far too much attention to the crowds parting around me, reforming on the other side. The short skirts that showed so much leg, the starched stiff collars that hid such strong necks –

“It wasn’t nothing,” Paco said, grabbing my arm and pulling me toward him, out of the crowd. “That – all looked like it came natural to you. Where do you take classes?”

My eyebrows rose and I barked a laugh. “The school of hard knocks, or something like that –“

“Don’t make fun of me,” he said.

I was chastised by how wounded he looked. “I’m not,” I said more softly. “It’s just something I can’t explain. Do you want to go somewhere together, or what?” I’d inadvertently been leading us back to my hotel.

Paco’s eyes searched mine. “Of course I want to sleep with you. But if that’s all you want – if you can’t be bothered to tell me the truth -- then no, fuck you.”

Tell him the truth – someone I barely knew? Then again – he was the only person in this entire godforsaken city who wanted to know. The hook-ups I’d been having were just that – they might as well’ve been random, a new guy or girl every night. Paco was the closest thing I had to a friend. But there was no way he’d believe anything I told him standing on the Vegas sidewalk at 2 am.

“If I tell you something cheesy right now like you can’t handle the truth, do you promise to find it funny and charming and still come up to my hotel room in exchange for the actual truth later?”

The look his expressive eyes gave me then culminated in a sigh and a headshake. “Sure.”

“Okay. You can’t handle the truth – yet.” I tried to give him a winning smile. “Come on, let’s cross the street.”

It wasn’t till I’d stepped a few steps out I realized just how badly I was hoping he’d follow me. Ten heartbeats later – mine or his, I didn’t know – he did.

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