Desired by Him (Wanted Series #5) by Kelly Hazel

Author:Kelly, Hazel [Kelly, Hazel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-11-06T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11: Wyatt

Pick up. Pick up. Pick up. Pick up.

Voicemail.

Damn.

Beep.

“Hey Marv. It’s Wyatt. Just wanted to see if you’d heard anything back yet about the demo.” I drummed my fingers on the kitchen counter. “Call me back when you hear something good.” I was about to hang up when I changed my mind. “And you know if it’s bad news, you can tell me. Like you always say, good news can wait, but bad news can’t.” I sighed. “Anyway, I look forward to hearing from you.” I hung up.

Fuck.

I hoped I wasn’t wrong. If I was, it meant I’d officially lost it. I’d have no choice but to stop playing games and go get an honest job at Kinkos. Or Dunkin Donuts. Cause I was no musician. Whereas if I was right…

Sophie walked past the kitchen and something caught my eye.

“Soph?” I said, sliding my phone in my pocket.

“Yeah?”

I popped my head into the entryway. She was holding her jumbo box of crayons and her favorite coloring book, the ridiculously detailed one for adults that made me go cross eyed whenever I flipped through it.

“What’s that?” I asked, pointing at her ankle.

“It’s a tattoo.”

I raised my eyebrows. “Excuse me?”

“It’s a tattoo.”

I clenched my jaw.

“Lily did it when I was at her house the other day.”

“Is that so?”

She nodded. “I did one for her, too.”

I gestured with my pointer finger for her to come closer and dropped to my knee. “Is that permanent marker?”

“Yeah,” she said. “But Lily’s sister said it’s not permanent when you use it on your skin.”

“What is it supposed to be?”

She furrowed her brow and stretched her neck towards her extended foot. “Umm.”

“You don’t know what you let her draw on you?”

“I knew at the time,” she said, crinkling her nose. “But now it’s gone a bit smudged.”

I didn’t even know where to start. “First of all,” I said, shaking my head. “You are not allowed to have tattoos.”

She cocked her head. “Why not?”

“Because there’s nothing wrong with your beautiful skin.”

“It looked really good yesterday, though.”

“Well that’s the other thing,” I said. “Real tattoos are permanent so it’s not even funny to joke about them.”

“Really?”

I nodded. “Really. In fact, people with bad tattoos might even think you’re mocking them if you go around with that thing on your ankle.” How did I not see it before? It looked like a bloated starfish.

“You think I should wash it off?”

“I don’t think you have a choice,” I said. “It doesn’t even look like anything now.”

“I know, but-”

“Can you imagine if you couldn’t wash it off?” I raised my eyebrows and fixed my eyes on hers. “Can you imagine if it looked all terrible and smudged like that and you could never ever get rid of it?”

“That would be bad.”

“Right,” I said. “And that’s why you’re never getting a real one. Cause no matter how good it looks at the time, eventually it will look like a terd.”

She smiled at her ankle again. “It already kind of looks like a terd now that you mention it.

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