Hot damn! So not the experience I had in the tattoo artist's chair! ( )

Enthralled was a short story about a suicidal young hemophiliac man, Colin, who finds love for the first time in the arms of an ancient vampire, Rowland.

Now, in another short story, we taste a very erotic little interlude in their common life: Colin is Rowland's thrall, and Rowland wants to be sure that everyone knows that Colin is his and his only, and he wants also to protect the man when he is not around. So he takes Colin to a special tattoo parlor, where another vampire does magical tattoos embedded with ancient chants and spells.

Colin has to face a very difficult trial for a man who was used to not be near to needles and similar: his special tattoo is placed all around is buttocks and groin. But Rowland is near him to "distract" the man from his embarassing position...

As all the Alpha men of Laura Baumbach, Rowland is a big muscular man who can be gentle and caring for his little companion. There is no doubt who is the leading partner in this couple, and Colin needs and wants a firm hand in his life. He is totally dependant from Rowland, and in his case it's not only a behaviour choice: the blood exchange with Rowland prevents Colin's illness to progress.

For sure I recommend to read Breathing after have read also Enthralled, cause all the relationship between Colin and Rowland could only be understand if you have an idea on how they met.

An almost "classical" vampire story, for much classica can be an M/M romance :-)

"Breathing" is the sequel to "Enthralled". Vampire hunters are still more anxious than ever to kill the vampire Rowland. In order to protect his human lover Colin from this threat, Rowland arranges a visit to a mystical tattoo parlor.

As this is a just a short book I don´t want to spoil to much of the story. Let me just say that as always you can trust Laura Baumbach in letting a normal scene become quite steamy, even in a tattoo parlor. ;-)

Good book, loved to read about Rowland and Colin again after "Enthralled". ( )