No Regrets Series Bundle by Lauren Blakely

Author:Lauren Blakely [Blakely, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lauren Blakely Books

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Her wild-cherry scent floods my nostrils. I’m close to her, as close as a doctor and patient, and she smells fucking amazing. She smells like a hot girl, not like Opium or Chanel. Not like she’s spritzed herself in some kind of expensive fragrance bought at a fancy department store with her husband’s platinum card. She smells like someone my age, and she looks like someone my age, and she dresses like it too. There’s no earthly reason I should find her so damn hot because my type has always been that of a fine wine. Women are better with age, and I gravitated toward them a few years older than me. Okay, maybe a decade or two older.

But this girl…

I’m not even going to say there’s something about her. Because it’s not some random something that makes her hot. It’s everything.

It’s her long blonde hair, her deep brown eyes, her body and the way she looks in that skirt and those Mary Janes. It’s the way she’s flirty and also reserved at the same time. As if she’s not quite sure what to do, and then she’s suddenly sure. And maybe it’s because of where I’m at right now in my life, maybe it’s because of this fucking scar on my face and why I have it and what I’m doing about…changing my ways, that’s what I’m fucking doing…that I find this girl so alluring.

Or it could be simpler. It could be that her fingers are digging into my thigh as I finish the line work and move onto the shading of her ribbon. I glance briefly at her hand. Her nails are unpolished. She’s gripping me hard as she takes deep, measured breaths. I fight the impulse to hug her, to tell her it’ll be okay. She doesn’t need that from me. She needs me to do my job, to do it well, to do it precisely, so she can have what she came here for—art on her body. I switch to a different needle for shading, but she doesn’t let go. It honestly doesn’t bother me that she’s got her hands on me. She’s some kind of intoxicating combination of sweet and sexy at the same time.

Innocent but worldly.

Out of the corner of my eye, I notice her breathe in sharply. I keep my focus on the needle, making small talk to distract her from the pain.

“If you could go anywhere in the world right now, where would it be?” I ask as I brighten her ribbon with a fire-engine shade of red.

A smile plays at the corner of her lips. She opens her eyes, glances up at me. “You’ll laugh, but I’ll tell you anyway.”

“Tell me anyway.”

“Because it’s not someplace exotic. Or foreign. Or the kind of place everyone wants to go. It’s just California.”

“I’m not laughing,” I say. “Why California?”

“Because it’s far away from here. Because it’s warm. Because of the ocean. Because of the beach.”

I nod as I work. Her reasons rock. “Because of the waves.

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