I’m the first to admit that those beefcake pictures of Josh on the front cover of Keys Confidential had almost everything to do with me wanting to be his bodyguard. Sure, the account was great for my dad’s biz, but hey, who’re we kidding here? Seeing Josh leaving his pool with his broad shoulders, tight ass, and awesome thighs revealed from one photo to the next, and the sun glittering off all that wet naked male flesh, still makes my toes curl. And what about his tattoo? That’s a picture of it to the left. Believe me, that baby sent me over the edge then and after we made love on Josh’s private beach, which just happened to be on his private island. Check out Chapter 15 of our story in Close to Perfect if you want the full details. Trust me, you won’t be sorry.But now for what we promised you last week – The Story of How Josh Got His Tattoo. Okay, so maybe I’m being a little dramatic here, but for the life of me I couldn’t understand why he was so reluctant to tell me how and why he got it. It’s not like it screamed the name of an old girlfriend, right? Something like: Dawn Forever or Death! And even if an old girlfriend just so happened to be a tattoo artist who just so happened to tattoo his shoulders and back, what’s the big deal? It’s not like he’s still with her, you know?
Of course, it was a woman who gave him the tattoo and he did date her and it got pretty damned serious. . .well, as serious as everlasting romance can get for an eighteen-year-old. Did I mention that Josh didn’t get the tattoo during his construction days like I first thought? That’s right, he was in his last days of high school when he went for it, while Ms. Tattoo Artist was, shall we say, a bit past her prom expiration date – thirty-one to be exact. An April-August romance if ever there was one. Seriously though, Josh was looking for a lot more than a tattoo and some hot times when he hooked up with this lady.
Let me explain. If you’ll recall from our story in Close to Perfect, on that first night we spent together Josh told me about his mom and how she’d given him up for adoption. Now, if you haven’t read our story then shame on you (just kidding), but seriously I want you to know that Josh did not end up in an orphanage (he told me there’s no such thing anymore); his biological dad wanted him and was there every step of the way until he got killed in a construction accident when Josh was ten. Although Josh’s paternal grandparents took him in after that, Josh always wondered about his mom. I know, I know – in our story he brushed it off, but hey, we couldn’t get into every single thing about our pasts in the book – that’s what blogs are for! So anyway, when Josh was eighteen he did try to locate her.
Which brings us to Ms. Tattoo Artist. You see, her cousin, Mitch, and Josh’s mom had hooked up for awhile. Of course, that was a few years past, so even though she couldn’t tell him where his mom currently was, she did offer Josh a free tattoo – unless he was too shy to take off his tee and too chicken to have her touching his bare skin.
Yeah, right. What eighteen-year-old guy’s gonna turn down a proposal like that from a woman-of-the-world who’s wearing a tight leather vest and has a freaking heart tattooed above her left nipple?
To say Josh was happy during their brief affair is putting it mildly. I did catch him smiling once or twice while he was telling his story, and Ms. Tattoo Artist was one of the ladies who sent him a basket of flowers after his ‘exposure’ in Keys Confidential.Of course, she was just happy that her work got so much play in that tabloid.
As for me, I have a few wild tales in my past, no tattoos though since mine are cop stories, and in our next post Josh will share details about the one that had him all worried when we first met.
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