Inked by Sarah Darlington

Author:Sarah Darlington [Darlington, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-12T23:00:00+00:00

~ CHAPTER 28 ~

AMANDA

“This pie is the best, right?” I said to Nick, hoping it made up for everything crappy about that dinner. He was such a gentleman through it all—talking to everyone, joking with everyone, answering every one of the questions Finn grilled him with, talking baseball with the guys when part of me got the impression baseball wasn’t even an interest of his.

And the waitress. God, she wouldn’t leave him alone. She kept petting his arm, literally petting him like a dog, every time she walked by. I was so embarrassed. He had to have been annoyed by the entire thing. Annoyed with me for inviting him. Annoyed with all of us for being... so basic. We were a group of tattoo artists; I’d never really thought of any of us as basic before, but that was before I learned as much as I learned about Nick tonight from all of Finn’s incessant questioning.

At one point, I excused myself and went to the bathroom. I googled him like a fucking fanatic in the closed stall. I googled his brother. Red Sox player. His parents. Owners of some fancy, custom-made furniture company. Peaks Island. His hometown. An island full of the most impressive mansions I’d ever laid my eyes on. An island for the rich, it seemed. His college, super prestigious, and apparently one of the best marine biology programs in the country.

He was a silver spoon baby.

A millionaire’s son.

He made conversation easily with all of us regular people. And he was good at it. So nice when put on the spot. It shocked me a little that he wanted to have dessert with me, that he wanted to keep this evening going.

Because he had to be reconsidering being with me, entertaining me, staying around when he still believed me to be pregnant with Finn’s baby.

Oh God, what would his parents think if he told them he was dating a pregnant girl? They’d probably both have heart attacks. I didn’t know them at all. But I could imagine it. Were we even dating? Just occasionally... casually... fucking. And me tactlessly showing up to sleep in his bed each night. He probably would never dare tell his family about me.

“This is the best pie I’ve ever had,” he said to me. “I normally don’t like key lime pie.”

I gave him a small smile. “Me neither.”

“We should have eaten here for dinner.” He took another bite. “Alone,” he added. “It’s just I turn into this weird version of myself around other people. This Chaz.”

Chaz? He had my heart pounding hard. “What’s a Chaz?”

“A dick. My parents forced me to attend so many social events growing up. I developed this kind of alter ego.”

“And Chaz is what you call your dick-ish alter ego?” I raised my eyebrows.

He set down his fork, turning over his hand. “That story about the burner and my hand was bullshit.”

“What?” I glanced down at his hand. I could see no scars. So he’d made up that story where he slapped the burner completely.

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