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ass could wait, I could do it for free when we get home,” she grumbled.
    “Tomorrow isn’t guaranteed; I want it now. Besides, I can afford fifty bucks for a tattoo,” Derek said, pulling out his wallet.
    “Actually, it’s one-fifty.” The big guy said, handing him a form to fill out.
    Piper rolled her eyes and went to look at the art on the wall. I felt like an outsider looking in, the odd man out. The room was small but surprisingly clean. Given the fact that it was a tattoo shop, it was a good thing. Derek handed back his signed consent form and one-hundred and fifty bucks before walking to a room in the back with Joss following closely behind.
    “Kev?” Aubrey said, snapping me back to the present.
    “Huh?” I asked, seeing that Derek and Joss were back already.
    “You were somewhere else for a while,” she rubbed my arm.
    The worst part is nothing crossed my mind. Not Bryn, Kennedy, or Skylar. Nothing. I silently wondered if I was starting to lose it. Other than detoxing, this had to be the worse time in my life. Emotionally, I was spent. Mentally, I was shut down, and physically I was just going through the motions to make it through another day. Tomorrow would be nerve wracking, how does one prepare for a paternity test with a kid he didn’t even know existed until twenty-four hours ago. A nine-year-old at that. What would this mean with me supposed to go back to Smithville? The questions started circling my brain when Derek lifted up his shirt revealing Joss’ name right where his heart would be.
    “I feel like I’m on top of the fucking world,” Derek practically roared. “Let’s head to Lux. We need to celebrate, but not before making a pit stop at the jeweler next door first.”
    “Ugh, you two make me sick,” Blake grimaced playfully. “Meet us there when you’re done.”
     
    Derek
     
    To say the past twenty-four hours were a whirlwind would be an understatement. I dodged the biggest bullet I could have ever missed because of Joss’s detective work and finding out that Skylar wasn’t mine. It’s not that I wouldn’t have been willing to step up to the plate if things were different, but honestly I didn’t want to relive that part of my life. I wasn’t in a good place, and Kennedy wasn’t the right girl for me. Joss looked up at me with her sparkling blue eyes and smiled. She was so fucking beautiful; it took my breath away.
    She eyes me quizzically. “Why the jewelry store?”
    “I have a piece of you on me forever and though it’s too early to ask you to marry me, I want to get you one of those promise ring thingy’s.”
    “A thingy, huh? You’re so romantic, you know that?” She laughed.
    “What can I say, I try.”
    Putting my arm around her, I opened the door and walked inside. I used to think of these things as nails in coffins. I didn’t think about marriage at all, even though I was technically still married to Kennedy. That wouldn’t be for much longer either. As soon as Monday morning rolled around, I was hand-delivering them to my attorney’s office so they could get that in motion.
    “Pick out whatever you want, it’s yours,” I told her.
    A saleswomen came from the other side of the store over to where we were standing. “Can I help you?” Her tone was dry and not overly friendly. Granted, I probably looked like I just rolled out of bed and put on whatever clothes I could find, which, in this case, would be an accurate statement. I spent all night making love, not fucking, Joss and this morning I didn’t want to waste one minute as our first official day as a couple.
    Joss walked around staring in each case, studying. “Can I see that one, please?”
    “That ring is ninety-four hundred dollars, miss,” the sales lady said in a condescending tone. Joss’ face turned red in embarrassment, and my blood started to boil. I walked to stand next to her and put my arm around her.
    “Listen, not for nothing, but I’m sure you can’t afford most of the