“There’s always surprise piercings,” Sara said, waggling their eyebrows suggestively.
I chuckled. “Where’s Luke?”
“He went for a coffee run since he’s taking walk-ins today.”
I waggled my eyebrows at them. “Wanna guess why I’m here?”
“Ooh, he’s gonna be so pleased!” Georgia’s eyes sparkled. “Good for you!”
“I’m too impatient to wait for the other one, so I decided to do this first.”
“Do you have a design?” she asked.
The phone started to ring, so Sara went to answer it.
“I have half of a design.”
The front door opened before I could elaborate, and Luke seemed surprised, a tiny bit worried, and incredibly happy to see me.
“Bear, baby, what are you doing here?” He put a tray of coffees on the front desk and came to kiss me. “Not that I’m complaining.”
“I heard you’re taking walk-ins today.” I winked.
He looked taken aback, but not in a bad way. “Okay, well I can definitely make that happen.”
Glancing at the drinks he’d brought, he frowned. “If I’d known you were coming, I would’ve—”
“No, it’s fine, I’m good.”
“This one is yours,” Sara handed him one of the very tall cups and shooed us towards his room. “Go make magic.” Then they grinned wickedly. “But not like that, this is a place of business!”
Georgia’s laughter followed us into the room where Luke pointedly closed the door.
He put his coffee down and sat on his saddle chair, then gestured for the tattoo chair table thingy.
I carefully got on it and smiled. “Hi.”
“Hi.” He grinned. “So, what did you want to have done today?”
“Well, I have half an idea, I need you to make the other half happen.”
“All right, what did you have in mind?” He picked up a sketchpad and flipped open a fresh sheet.
“I have this thing,” I said and pulled the sketch he’d made for me soon after we’d met from my messenger bag.
“Oh….” He took it and nodded slowly. “I can make this work. What else do you want on it?”
“I thought, maybe Tonya? Like just the cub and Tonya in the same style?”
He smiled at me and leaned closer to kiss me. “Give me fifteen minutes.”
“I hope you don’t give all your walk-ins kisses,” I teased him.
He winked at me. “Only the really hot subby ones.”
I blushed.
We agreed to put the tattoo on my upper arm, so I could see it easily whenever I wanted.
