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??You did good,” he compliments “You want to do the next one by yourself?”

“Umm… you really trust me not to mess it up?”

One corner of his mouth tips up “There’s not really much you can do to mess it up, Jules Do what you just did Move slow and stay along the line that’s already there”

I purse my lips to the side, both anxious and excited to do it without his aid

“Okay”

The area that needs to be touched up is more on his shoulder than his arm Luca scoots his chair closer, and s are pushed open more to acco pressed against my center, and his face is eye level with aze on theainston the chair beside me

“You need more ink,” he says hoarsely

It takesthe tip of the needle in the ink and he presses the pedal Having hitheThe ainst his skin, concentrating on keeping my hand steady

Once I’m done, I move the machine away and he releases the pedal He takes the rabs the napkin and wipes away the extra ink A sense of pride hitsthe line straight

“Not bad for your first ti down at the line himself

I look at his bent head He has the longer hair pulled back into a band to keep it froe to pull the band out of his hair and run h it to feel how soft it is

As if feeling hts on him, he lifts his head I don’t knohat he finds in my expression, but his eyes turn intense I’ve seen desire on men’s faces before, and what I see on Luca’s couldn’t be construed as anything other than that It has ainst his sides His arm curls aroundinto the flesh there He puts his other hand on ainst him I suck in a sharp breath at the intimate contact and my hands fly to his broad shoulders Not to push him away, but to hold on so I don’t fall over at the powerful rush of need I feel

He gazes up atHis voice is a tortured whisper when he speaks

“I know I’ll probably go to hell for this, but goddamiserable when I’m not”

My heart constricts with his ad of me, but I feel the same way Even after the first time I saw him when I woke up from my coma and I freaked out, he’s been on uesabout hio I want to know him All of him