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I beam at him. “I would like that.”
“Good.”
He takes my hand in his and leads me inside the tattoo shop. There are some men dressed in overalls and showing off tattoo-covered skin, although none of them are anything close to Rueben.
They pause to stare as he walks in, his hands still wrapped around mine.
“Morning, boss,” they greet him collectively.
“Morning.” He pulls me closer to him and smiles before turning to them, wearing a serious expression.
“Hello,” I say with a short wave.
They stare curiously at me for a moment, looking between Rueben and me before smiling in my direction.
“Hello, lady,” they greet.
“Today sure is a wonderful day,” says a man who appears to be in his thirties, with short brown hair and a nose that takes over a huge chunk of his face.
“How so?” another guy asks him.
“Well, boss Rueben has never brought someone here before. We must be in the presence of an angel.” He grins.
I giggle softly as Rueben leads me over to a sort of office, where there’s a desk but also an open wall to the rest of the shop. He pulls me into his lap so that I’m straddling him, facing away from the men, who whistle and laugh among themselves.
“All right. That’s enough fun out of you all. Get back to work,” Rueben says.
The men go back to what they were doing. They don’t seem to have customers, but they are tattooing each other.
“Sorry about them. They can be quite a handful sometimes. I hope they didn’t embarrass you.”
I smile at his care. “No, they didn’t. If anything, I’m glad that they mentioned that you never bring any women here.”
My face burns bright as he laughs and kisses me square on the lips, right in the presence of the gang.
“Getting possessive, are we?” he asks. “Good. You never need to worry about whether or not there is someone else with me, or the others for that matter.”
Rueben kisses me once again and I melt into him, kissing him with as much passion as he gives me. He pulls me closer to him until I’m pressed against him.
Remember there are people around you, Amelia.
I struggle to keep from grinding against him as heat pools at my core. I want to feel him inside of me. I groan and he laughs.
“Don’t worry, love. We’ll be home soon enough, and you can have me however you want.”
My lips part to speak, but I stop and frown when he tenses. I try to pull away from him to see what could have caused it, but his hand on the back of my head stops me. The shop also quietens significantly.
“I see you are here. Good,” a raspy voice says.
“Jared. I don’t think the second in command of a gang should be making it a habit to walk into another gang’s shop, don’t you think?” Rueben asks.
I quickly realize that this is a hostile conversation and I lean into Rueben, trying to seem natural.
“Don’t give me attitude, Rueben! I told you all about the Burke girl, so why the hell aren’t you doing anything to find her? You sit here entertaining whores as if it doesn’t concern you, while others are out doing what you should be doing,” the strange man spits venomously.
Whores? Does he think I’m a whore?
Rueben’s hands tighten around me, and his voice is hard and steely when he speaks. “She has nothing to do with any of this. State your business and leave her out of it.”
