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The chiotten his attention, so she waited until Ghost noticed her and called out, "Oh shit, run!" andto dive behind his table

Ian rinned She tried not to end up a puddle of the floor Thankfully, there was no sign of Brian or Candace, and the rest of the artists were all but strangers to her Gabby laughed along good-naturedly with Ghost’s joke, grateful when Ian quickly ushered her on back to their little roo so normal and even professional

"Good, I can’t wait" She tried to return the favor, but she sounded too bright and false Or ination Daered on hers a ave any indication there had been so beneath hers

Jesus! She alht She should’ve known, however The er they rushed in And once that one was in, she amped with them

Ian closed the door "Gabby"

She put her hands to her fla cheeks "Oh God, I’ to be so nored with devilish char too hard to be normal, and it shows But it’s okay in here Just you andfor it," she teased

"No Your face is red Unless you can bla She was a thirty-six-year-old woed here or anything, so no, I guess I can’t do that"

"Like I said, it’s nothing I’ll step out and let you get ready, then we’ll get started"

No point in hi out He’d seen her naked…a lot Except that it would look weird to the others if they happened to notice that he didn’t She sht as he left the room, then stripped off her shirt and bra How the hell was she supposed to lie under those skillful hands for an hour or so when she now had the remembrance of just how skillful those hands were on other parts of her body?

It was her own da him She should’ve waited until the tattoo was done, at least

She settled on the table A moment later, he knocked and reentered with her permission

He’d doneher first session Today would be mainly fill-in to really make this bird fly She couldn’t wait

"How have you been?" he asked, and Gabby turned her face toward the direction of his voice She still couldn’t see hi her? "You look great," he went on before she could answer "Like you’re in a much better place than the first time you came in here"

Thanks to you "Oh yeah, I’ve been awesome How about you?" Do you think about ood for you as it was for me?

"Can’t complain"

There was no way he could not think about it Why did she care? She’d already decided it was a one-ti and that she wouldn’t let herself be affected by him She supposed she hadn’t really prepared herself for the possibility that he wasn’t affected by her

"I want to touch you so fking bad"

She nearly came off the table Had she heard hiht’ve been a remnant from one of her feverish dreams about him, come back to cruelly haunt her

She lifted her head and looked back at hiaze roamed over her ass, her back where his art waited to be completed, and finally to her face She sucked in a breath when the full force of those heated eyes hit her "Ian…"