I did base Dirk Jeroen off a real person - I hope he doesn't mind! I'm glad you love the guys, they really grew on me too.
thanks for the review hun. I'm so glad that I'm still appealing to people not into tattoos as well!
Ome jan is his father's brother actually. So he does have a famous surname, not that Jon would recognise it. Bodysuits are quite a speciality.
No one at the shop has surnames, no one would have asked his, he's only an apprentice after all.
thanks for the review hun, I'm glad you liked it. Stay tuned!
hehehehehe! thanks Carlos!
you get three chapters total. It was one long "short" story, but at 20k I figured I'd break it up for posting.
you leave the best reviews sweetie xxx
No, he gets his heightened senses from genetics - his mother is a tiger after all, just not a shifter. His skills are better than most non-shifters from shifter families, but he's not getting fur. No amount of love is going to undo genetics.
On the other hand...
I'm not sure Jian has ever not been the driving force in every choice he's ever made.
Emmett is not entirely the big brash creature he likes to pretend he is. Boy is far too thoughtful for his own good.
thank you very much!
It does take a certain level of ego and cockiness to be a tattoo artist - or an artist of any kind really. Super quiet and overly humble types don't ever get around to getting noticed by and large.
But Jon is an ass.
I hope you like how they all turn out. This was supposed to be a single chapter short... which ran to 20k! so we've divided it for the purposes of posting.
Thanks for the review!
Kip Meijer is probably the only tattoo apprentice in history without a single tattoo of his own. His appearance and skill change the atmosphere at the Brick and Tenth Tattoo Studio, but Kip has a secret, and he's been keeping his heart and his skin saved for something special. It'll be just his luck if the two things show up together.
Kip watched the two artists and their last clients leave in a loud rabble of colour interspersed with black, and then went back to sweeping the shop floor. Only the shop’s owner and the senior apprentice remained, talking over the light box whilst Kip emptied the bins at the artist’s stations and set the trash bag by the door to go out. Five minutes later, the tattoo studio was clean and shiny as a new pin.
“All done boss. Is there anything else you want me to do?”
The senior apprentice gave K
Emmett is confused. Maybe more than he should be, but he didn't feel it was fair to break up with Zeke when neither of them had done anything wrong. Zeke is a good guy.
The land of polar bears and ice, and salmon, seals, moose, and snow. Off we go Northwards!
thanks for the review hun
haha! you're welcome!
Not every wrong guy is a bastard! Just some of them... I'm so glad you're enjoying the boys, and Christmas is going to be awesome... but there's a few weeks until then. Surely nothing else can go wrong, right?
Thanks very much De.
Xue is a scaredy snow bear sometimes I think. Jian knows how to handle him - clearly!
Zeke's a good guy. I said so right from the start.
HAHAHAHA!!! I always know my limits!
Emmett's sense of smell is a little off lately, it's hard to work out whose emotions are whose when you feel so crappy all the time. Crouching Tiger, Dancing Bear sounds fun!
I married into a slightly Chinese family, so with the food, if not the language, I'm very sure of what I'm doing! We feast at new years and I make bao and red cooked pork and everything.
thank you for the lovely lovely compliments. I'm so glad you're enjoying the book.
"for the best" is bad enough when you're expecting it, being blindsided with it is much less than fun. Zeke's not a bad guy at all, he's just not the right guy. Now we must wait and see.