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Night Ink

by Scarlet Ives

Heat 5/5 One sitting ยท 27 min

Seventeen Thursdays running, at two in the morning, Pilar Solano has tattooed the same five words of old script over the same man's heart in her Baltimore shop.

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Seventeen Thursdays running, at two in the morning, Pilar Solano has tattooed the same five words of old script over the same man's heart in her Baltimore shop. Ulrich pays too much, in cash. He holds stiller than anyone she has inked, and never bleeds. Tonight she wipes the fresh line and watches the ink bead up and roll off skin that closes behind it. So she says the word. Vampire. He stopped counting at eight hundred years, and he keeps one rule: whoever marks him, he does not taste. Now he wants her in the chair.

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