Shadow Tales by L.J. Hamlin

Author:L.J. Hamlin [Hamlin, L.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LGBTQIA, Paranormal, Romance, Anthology
Publisher: Less Than Three Press, LLC
Published: 2017-10-11T04:00:00+00:00

Paw Prints On My Skin

Zack is in the middle of cleaning his workstation when he catches a faint scent over the familiar smells of the tattoo parlour. The foreign scent has his wolf sitting up and paying attention.

Intrigued and captivated by the scent, Zack leaves his workstation and heads to the front of the shop. The twins, Holden and Dawn, are on reception. Zack's not sure why it takes both of them to do the job, but he's not the boss, so he doesn't ask.

Zack can tell right away, from body language and scent, that the twins are flirting with the customer. And the customer they're hitting on is the source of the fascinating scent.

He's a cute little thing. Zack can see why the twins are flirting. He's average height, with brown hair and these huge, soulful brown eyes. He's handsome, with just slightly delicate features. He's toned and tanned, looks a little bit like the stereotype of the handsome college guy, but there's something about his wide, open, almost bashful smile that makes him look like more than just another good-looking college boy.

"You're sure I can't convince you to get a piercing while you're here?" Dawn asks. She and her brother fit in well here, both pierced heavily and with their fair share of tattoos, like all the staff at Shifter's Ink Tattoo and Piercing Parlor.

The customer is wearing short sleeves and has no visible tattoos. There's also no piercings, none Zack can see, anyway. He looks clean cut, but Zack has learned from working in Shifter's Ink that all kinds of people are into ink and piercings. There's no "type" when it comes to tattoos.

"No thanks. It's taken me this long to get halfway to knowing what I want in a tattoo. It'd take me forever to work out what piercing I'd want." The guy smiles, and by his scent he's definitely a shifter of some kind. All the other smells in the parlor, from customers, staff, and other people coming and going, it's hard to tell, but Zack thinks the customer is a canine of some sort, but not wolf.

"I could suggest a few places," Holden says, his gaze dropping below the customer's belt, which has the guy turning an almost alarming shade of red.

"Need an artist?" Zack asks the twins, walking further into the front of the shop.

The twins turn toward him, looking almost guilty, and Zack would bet good money they were planning to keep the man on the other side of the counter talking as long as possible. If they weren't so nice, Zack might have growled at them, but they're good kids at the end of the day.

"Zack, hi. Meet Tobias Bone. Tobias, Zack is one of our most talented artists," Dawn says, and Zack is sure her hair was a different color this morning when he walked in. Now it's black, green, and pink in stripes down her back. Holden's hair is the same as it was the last time Zack saw him: longish, but above his shoulders and bright blue.

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