The North Star: A New Adult Romance by Wendy Cole

Author:Wendy Cole [Cole, Wendy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Typewriter Pub
Published: 2019-12-25T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX

The tattoo gun and supplies were in plain sight on the bed, but I still lingered. I needed a moment to calm myself. Heat once again radiated from my neck to my face, and no matter how hard I wished, it wouldn’t go away.

“Why?” I whined. Why did my brain abandon me every time he got too close?

“Did you get lost, Tequila?” Bard called from the living room. He sounded amused. Damn him.

I couldn’t show my face to him, at least not until it returned to its normal color.

“Just a second,” I called back, my voice strained. I wanted to kick myself. I wanted to reach deep down, snatch inner Jessie by the throat, and shake her.

“Okay.” I took a deep, calming breath through my nose, then blew it out slow through pursed lips. “You’ve never done yoga, or meditation, or any other shit like that, but…you better figure it out,” I breathed again, “right now.”

Great. I was talking to myself. I’d lost it. He’d driven me crazy.

Another, in through my nose and slowly out through my mouth. Then, again. My heart rate slowed. Okay, that was good. I took another deep breath in and blew it out slowly.

“Whatcha doin?”

I shrieked.

“Fuck!” I glared at him and clutched my back-to-racing heart. “Don’t do that!”

Bard smiled, and if that wasn’t enough to undo all the work I’d done, he darted forward and laid a big kiss onto my cheek.

“Don’t do that, either!” I wiped it away and scowled at him. “You must not want a tattoo.”

His smile widened. “I do. That’s why I came looking for you.” He stepped around me and flopped down onto the bed, then placed his hands behind his head and smiled that gut-wrenching smile at me. “We can do it here. There’s an outlet right under the shelf.”

I swallowed hard again at the sight of him, all stretched out on a bed and half naked. Damn.

Thankfully, this time, I was better prepared to deal with it. No way would I be able to handle it for the entire tattoo session, though. Nope. Did I look like a saint? Well, I was not, nor had I ever been saintly.

“Living room.” I pointed; my expression as stern as I could manage.

His eyes crinkled. “Yes, ma’am.” He lifted himself back up, gathered the supplies from the mattress, then slid off the edge to stand right in front of me. “After you.” His voice was deep, a caress against my ears.

Just two words in that smooth tone, and my ovaries exploded. I bolted down the hallway as if the bedroom was on fire, which it damn near was.

“Sit.” I stood as far as I could away from him and clung to the much-needed space as long as possible.

Bard didn’t make a sound as he took his place. He stretched his legs out the way they’d been before and stared at his feet.

I plugged the gun into the wall and set everything out on the table. “What did you say you wanted?”

“You are never lost,” he repeated, his tone soft.

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