“That’s insane.”
“Then why didn’t you object when I told you I wanted one?”
He did not answer.
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“You already knew what Natalie had seen. But once you saw my tattoo, suddenly tattoos were trashy, and you weren’t attracted to me anymore.”
“You’re twisting everything.”
“No. You were scared.”
“Scared of what?”
“That Natalie would start talking about tattoos again.”
His face changed.
And suddenly, I understood.
He was not looking at my tattoo and thinking about me.
He was thinking about Claire’s.
Natalie had already connected Claire to the butterfly on her shoulder.
Every time she saw my tattoo, there was a chance tattoos would become a topic again.
There was a chance she would mention “the butterfly lady” in front of me.
Rob had not been disgusted.
