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someone’s skin
forever. What’s cooler than that?”
    “It is interesting.”
    “Do you have ink?”
    “No.” I’d thought about it a few times but
never had the courage to go through with it.
    “Good.” He released a sigh.
    “Why is that good?” I assumed he would want
me to have ink.
    “My parents don’t approve of tattoos. It’s
better if you don’t have any.”
    That made sense. “When did you get your first
tattoo?”
    “On my eighteenth birthday. I would have done
it sooner but my parents wouldn’t sign the permission papers.”
    “Is there any particular taste you have in
ink?”
    He rubbed the back of his neck as he
shrugged. “Whatever looks cool.”
    “Do you have any piercings?”
    He stuck out his tongue. A black metallic
ball sat in the center of his tongue. He retracted it and shut his
mouth.
    I’d never known a guy with a tongue piercing
so I never had an opinion about it before, but Ash made it look
sexy. He was oblivious to other people’s feelings and he was full
of himself, but he was still hot. “Did that hurt?”
    “No.”
    He seemed like the type of guy who would lie
about it just to be macho. “Any other piercings?”
    He grinned in a wicked way. “I would show you
but that would endanger the professionalism of our
relationship.”
    My neck and cheeks suddenly felt warm. “Now
that had to hurt.”
    “A little,” he said. “The healing part of it
hurt the most.”
    “Why?”
    “Because I couldn’t have sex for three months
until it healed. I couldn’t even jerk off. It totally sucked.”
    “TMI…”
    “Hey, you asked.”
    I’d never known a guy with a dick piercing
either. Was it uncomfortable for the girl?
    “And I doubt my parents are going to ask you
about it since they have no idea.”
    “Why did you pierce it?”
    “Girls like it.”
    “They do?”
    That arrogant smile came back. “You obviously
haven’t tried it. I highly recommend it.”
    “Doesn’t it tear through the condom?”
    “Not if you know what you’re doing.”
    Talking about him having sex with a dick
piercing was giving me ideas I shouldn’t think about. “Anything
else I should know about you?”
    “You’re blushing.” He kept grinning and
wouldn’t stop.
    “I’m not blushing.” I lowered my face in the
hope that would help.
    “I’ll show you if you’re interested.”
    “Let’s change the subject,” I said
quickly.
    “Whatever you want, Alessandra.” He said my
name slowly and rolled the R.
    I ignored him.
    “I was in the army for four years. They’ll
expect you to know that.”
    “Really?” I blurted. I didn’t expect that
from him.
    “Don’t think I’m honorable,” he said quickly.
“I enlisted to piss off my parents. I would have enjoyed it more if
I could have actually seen them pissed off more often. I was
overseas for fifteen months.”
    “Why would that piss them off?”
    “They kept telling me they wanted me to be a
better person so I decided to pledge my life to keep my country
safe. But I risked my life in the process so I made them eat their
own words.”
    “Wow…that’s a big deal.”
    He shrugged. “I don’t regret it. It gave me a
lot of perspective. Now my tolerance for bullshit is even lower.
When my parents bitch about my immaturity and stupid life goals, I
think about all the men in my tour that never came home. They spend
so much time caring about something so stupid instead of just
letting me be who I am. Maybe they should go over there so they can
grow the fuck up.” He shook his head then looked out the
window.
    Ash was more complex than he seemed. He was
an asshole sometimes, but there was a lot more to him than what he
projected. “What did you do over there?”
    “Grunt. When I took the exam, I had really
high scores. They wanted to put me in other areas of the field that
wouldn’t land me on the ground. But I told them I wanted to be a
soldier.”
    “You’re so brave.”
    Instead of saying something cocky or
arrogant, he