Forget Me Not (Blossoming Beginnings Book 1) by Jess Taylor

Author:Jess Taylor [Taylor, Jess]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

NINETEEN

Kaden

Happiness. I don’t know that I’ve ever felt it like this. With her bright-green eyes searching every inch of my skin, her golden-blonde hair splayed across my chest, her fingers intertwined with mine, it’s like the feeling is consuming me.

“What about this one?” Her fingers brush over the scorpion tattoo covering my forearm. She runs them over the mishmash of designs surrounding it, flipping my arm over to follow the design all the way around.

She’s been doing this for the past half an hour, finding a piece of ink on my body and asking the meaning behind it. Most of them I give her an honest response, others I don’t. A lot of the ink on my body I got simply because it’s art and I like it, making it an easy explanation. There are a select few that mean more than what is shown on the surface though. Luckily, she hasn’t gone near any of the ones I refuse to talk about just yet. Her eyes meet mine, awaiting a response.

“I got that one when I was nineteen.” I smile at the memory of that specific piece. “I had been working with King for over a year at this point. Jillian, his ex-wife, had gone into labor with Willow at two o’clock in the morning, two weeks early, so nobody, especially him, was prepared. He called me completely flustered and asked if I could come watch Ellie, who was asleep in bed. I’d only been around Ellie a few times and she wasn’t totally comfortable with me, but that was the most uncomposed I’d ever seen him, and it seemed like I was his only option.”

“I can’t picture King being uncomposed,” she says, looking like the thought of it is comical.

“Before that, neither could I. He is the most together person I know, but in that moment, he was a mess. Anyway, Ellie ended up waking up not long after they left and was hysterically crying, asking for her parents. I was a barely twenty-year-old kid with no clue about what to do, so I tried to explain it all to her. When that didn’t work, I told her I’d get her anything she wanted if she just stopped crying.” I pause, laughing at the memory. “The little shit’s response was that she wanted a scorpion. Obviously, I had no clue what to do with that, so I compromised by telling her we could draw one and I’d have her dad tattoo it on me. Surprisingly, she agreed to that.”

“Wait, so four-year-old Ellie drew that?” She looks back and forth from me to the tattoo, her eyes comically wide. She looks cute when she’s shocked.

“No, the one Ellie drew is somewhere in the box on top of my closet. I redrew this one before I had King ink it onto me. Ellie didn’t know the difference and thought she was the artist behind it.” I chuckle. “She’s probably figured it out by now, but we don’t discuss it.”

“So, you

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