Romance: JADEN: An MMA Fighter Romance (Bad Boy Tattoo Romance) (New Adult Pregnancy Short Stories) Read Free Page A

upset?”
    “Do you even know why I’m upset?”
    “Um…not really.” 
    He sounded scared of what my reaction to his honesty might be.
    “Do you think you can just turn me into another one of those model whores back there?”
    “What?  No.”
    He seemed genuinely shocked and confused.
    “I don’t need you to change me okay?”
    “What?  I don’t want to change you.”
    I started to soften.  He actually sounded as though he was completely unaware of what his words had sounded like to me.  I began to think that maybe I had made a big mistake.  My pride, however, wouldn’t let my embarrassment seep in again, and I stuck firmly to my argument.
    “Well, I don’t want to train.”
    “We don’t have to.”
    “Well stop pushing it.”
    “I’m so confused.  I didn’t mean to force you into anything.”
    “Okay, cool.  Well, I gotta go.” 
    I turned back to look out my front window, ready to drive away.
    “I just wanted to see you again.”
    I stopped and slowly turned my head towards him.  He was looking down and then slowly raised his head till our eyes met and I once again melted in the intensity of them.
    “Really?”
    He nodded.
    “Why?”
    “What?  I dunno, I just…I just couldn’t let you walk out of the room.  I couldn’t let you drive away.  I didn’t mean to keep stopping you but I just did.  It just kept happening.”
    I tried to hide my giddiness at his confession.
    I searched for a pen in the middle console of my car and then turned back towards him.
    “Give me your hand.”
    He looked at me nervously and cautiously held his hand out for me.  I grasped his wrist and I felt his warm skin against me.  My breathing quickened.
    One of his tattoos caught my eye.  It was positioned on the top of his hand beneath the finger next to his thumb.  He had so many huge and beautiful tattoos but this tiny one of a heartbeat line and a date, was the one that intrigued me the most.  I ran my finger over the lines and I heard him take a deep breath in and then blow out slowly.  I looked up at him and he was staring at the spot where my fingers had just traced.  I decided not to ask him about it though.  It seemed too personal for me to enquire about and I didn’t want to make him uncomfortable with my unnecessary nosiness.  I snapped out of my daze and brought his attention back to me as I brought the pen to his skin.  I wrote my number down and my name underneath.
    “So you can call me if you want.”
    He smiled at me.
    “I’ll think about it.” 
    I was shocked by his cheeky tone and grin that now appeared on his face.  Did he just make a joke with me?  One that I would make and he wouldn’t understand?  I stared at him, even more intrigued as he continued to surprise me.  Then it hit me.  What if he wasn’t joking and actually meant he would have to think about it?  That seemed more in line with Jaden, from what I had so far experienced.
    “I will…call you.  I was joking.”
    He obviously saw my confusion with his first response and cleared up any of my weary thoughts.
    “Okay.”
    I spoke nervously and he laughed now somehow gaining the upper-hand.  He had just taken a quick turn from the soft-spoken confusing guy to the confident, forward guy I had thought he would have been from the beginning.  Wow, this guy was really baffling everything I thought I knew about the male species.  But he was going to call me, and I couldn’t wait.
     
    ***
     
    “Hello?”
    “Told you I’d call.”
    I was lost for words.  I had only been home for an hour and my phone was already ringing with an unknown number flashing on the screen, and now I was hearing Jaden’s voice on the other end.
    “I have to run another class but I just wanted to show you I would call you.”
    I laughed.
    “Wow, now that is record timing Jaden.”
    “Shit, too soon?”
    “No, no, not at all.  Just surprised me.”
    “I have a feeling I’m going to like surprising you Alyssa.”
    “Well,