Dark Ink Tattoo by Cassie Alexander

Author:Cassie Alexander
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Argus Industrial
Published: 2016-05-23T23:00:00+00:00

I managed not to yell at him until we’d gotten in the car. “What the hell was all that?”

“A favor for a friend. They had a late cancellation and needed someone to fill the seat. I finished as quickly as I could. We have reservations at Celestial tonight – we can still make them if we hurry.”

It took me a moment to parse everything. “Wait -- you lost -- on purpose?”

“Did you think I played poker that badly?” he looked over at me with a wild grin and pulled onto the interstate.”

“I don’t know what to think.” The acceleration of the car pushed me back. “How much money was that?”

“Just fifty grand.”

I gasped in horror. He was a man that fifty grand was nothing to? I put fingers to my forehead, trying to stop an oncoming migraine.

“You okay?” he asked.

“Please take me home.”

He took the next exit and started driving much more slowly. “Why? What’d I do?”

I twisted in the seat to look at him. “It’s nothing you did – it’s who you are.”

“Oh, no – Angela, I know tonight was ostentatious, but –“

“And who I am,” I said, talking over him. “We’re two very different people, Mark. This has been fun, and I really like you but –“

He pulled over. We were on a backroad, one of the ones that led to a subdivision that’d never been built. “I know what you’re trying to do, Angela. Don’t. Don’t you dare decide things for me.”

“We’re different, Mark.” Now that we were off the strip I could see the moon in the sky – enough of a sliver to feel its pull. “You don’t know what you’re getting into with me. You think you can handle everything because you have money, but I have problems money can’t solve.”

He didn’t say anything – he just got out of the car and walked around it, to open my door for me. I got out and grabbed my clutch as an after-thought, I’d be calling a cab if I had too, no way I was walking home in these heels.

The night wind was strong but he shielded me, standing right in front of me to stare into my eyes. “Do you, or do you not want to be with me.”

The moonlight made his features cast strong shadows, and I remembered the way his stubble felt against my thighs. He wasn’t going to give me up easily, and inside me a tail thumped with misplaced pride. My wolf had gone and found another alpha.

Goddammit.

“I do, but I can’t.”

“Then – just give me twenty-four hours.”

“A day isn’t going to change anything.”

He came in closer. “This day will.”

And then he was so near and he smelled so good and this might be the last chance I had to get properly fucked, under the moon no less – I leaned up and kissed him, hard. He tensed in surprise, but then kissed me back, just as fiercely, and instantly closed the space between us, pressing me against the hood of his car.

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