Dare to Try by Nordika Night

Author:Nordika Night [Night, Nordika]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2022-10-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

After saying goodbye to my client—an older woman who had me laughing the whole session—I check in on Maeve. She’s been working on the same client for hours, and judging by her status, it’s going to be a few more hours yet. I’m being a needy fuck because I need her moral support for my next client, but that’s not her job. She already gave me a pep talk, reminded me I’m not doing anything wrong and promised me she’d be here if things go to shit.

Jed. Jed is my next fucking client.

I see the asshole enough at home, but I always have an escape there. A part of me is wondering if he booked this appointment just to trap me at my station while he reams the fuck out of me for being into his girl. Or at least gets me to admit it.

Truthfully, I don’t want to talk about it. Not with him. Not with Mom. Not with any of my brothers or friends. No one but Maeve gets to hear the gritty details of my forbidden love; I’m even getting sick of hearing myself think about it.

If Jed is going to force me to admit this shit, I’d rather it be while I’m drunk, have an escape route and the time and place to get my ass kicked. Because that’s what I want: a beating. It’s what I deserve. Maybe he can beat this feeling out of me.

Jed is my last client of the day. We’re finishing a piece we started months ago, and today, of all fucking days, is the day. Normally, I’d be looking forward to joking around with him, chatting, shooting the shit and just spending time with him, but today is different. It’s different because of how he acted at my parents’ party. It’s different because he knows how I feel and we’ve never had to discuss something like this before.

I wipe my station down, get it all set up for him and try to mentally prepare myself to do this session. Jed let me design it. It’s an awesome mix of birds, designs, gauges and cogs that stretch from his wrist to his elbow. We did the outline, now we’re filling it in and doing the shading. I love that he trusted me with the whole thing, never questioned my skill and ran with every idea I showed him. Jed was the very first client whose skin I tattooed. But that’s just it; he liked it because we think alike, enjoy the same things and have the same tastes. Probably why I want his girl.

“Hey, man,” I greet him when he walks in the door, refusing to be nervous.

He hands me a coffee from a shop up the street, grinning at me. “You better not fuck this up,” he jokes. The tattoo or his relationship?

I get him set up, receive a wink from Maeve in her station, and take a deep breath. This is my job, my safe place and my sanctuary.

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