Justice Inked (Cowboy Justice Association 7) by Olivia Jaymes Page A

good way to pop the young woman’s tattoo cherry.
    “Oh, it’s pretty! I really like that. Can you do that right here?”
    Sophie pointed to the front of her left shoulder.
    “I can. Let me draw out what I think would work.”
    Rayne quickly sketched out the flower, keeping it on the smaller side since this was her first. If she liked it, then Rayne could add on to the design at a later time.
    “Dare is going to lose his mind when he finds out,” Sophie laughed, clearly not bothered in the least by the prospect of angering her brother. “He still thinks of me as a little girl and it makes me crazy. He’d lock me in my room with dolls and a tea set if he could get away with it.”
    “You are only eighteen. That’s not exactly old and gray.”
    Sophie rolled her eyes and giggled. “Dare acts like an old man and he’s only thirty-four. He doesn’t even like to drink in front of me. He says it doesn’t set a good example. Dad never worried about that.”
    “I’m sorry about your father. You must really miss him.”
    Her father had passed on several months before, which was why Dare had come back to his hometown and taken the job as sheriff.
    Shrugging, Sophie shook her head. “I loved him, but he wasn’t much of a father. Mom ran the household and then when she was gone he just sort of withered away slowly. He loved her very much. I don’t think he had a very happy marriage to Dare’s mother at all, and Dare never talked about her either.”
    “I didn’t realize you had different mothers.”
    Rayne didn’t really know that much about Dare at all and she couldn’t figure out why that bothered her. The details of his life were none of her business and never would be.
    “Mom was much younger than Dad. I don’t think Dare ever approved but I think it was romantic. It was like their love was taboo but they couldn’t stay away from each other. Such passion.”
    Depending on the actual age difference, Rayne wasn’t sure that the love was so much taboo as it was simply unconventional. But it was funny that Dare didn’t approve. That man had a giant stick up his ass and it had to be uncomfortable. If anyone in this world needed to relax and let go, it was Sheriff Dare Turner.
    “It sounds like your older brother doesn’t approve of too many things.”
    Sophie rolled her eyes and groaned with typical teenage dramatic flair. “I could spend all day listing all the crap he thinks I shouldn’t do. He hates Tim, my boyfriend. Dare’s constantly handing me pamphlets about safe sex and the virtues of abstinence. When he first came back home he told me that penises were dangerous.”
    Rayne could imagine Dare saying exactly that if it meant scaring his little sister into celibacy. He might be sex on legs but he was probably a bore in the sack. A man as uptight as he obviously was probably only did it on Saturday nights with the lights off and in the missionary position.
    “All brothers are supposed to hate their sister’s boyfriends,” Rayne said instead of what she was really thinking. “I think it’s a federal law or something. They may have a point, actually. My taste in males has certainly improved as I’ve aged and I imagine yours will too. The guy you think is perfect now won’t be all that wonderful in a year or two.”
    Sophie sighed, a dreamy, faraway look on her pretty face. “Tim is amazing. He’s cute and funny. He’s smart too. And when he kisses me…” A grin and a giggle. “My knees actually go weak and I tingle all over. Just like in those romance books. That’s true love.”
    “They have medication for those symptoms,” Rayne teased. “If you start to get dizzy as well you may want to see a physician.”
    “You sound like one of those drug commercials on television.” Sophie slapped her hand over her mouth to stifle a laugh. “When they list all those horrid side effects that are worse than whatever it is they’re trying to cure.”
    “So,” Rayne began, trying to keep the