Review: Awesome story of a tat bringing two men together
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 29, 2013
If I thought the possessive streak in Knotted (book 2 of the In Knots series) was prominent in that story, it had nothing on the use of it in Cuffed. And everytime the word is said by the Dom, it causes the sub's cock to get hard. Every time.Instead of focusing on the Dom's search for his mate, which we found in Knotted, this is a submissive's search for his mate. Charlie is a bit of a pain slut and we first meet him in the Knotted BDSM club being whipped by the man who is his contracted partner. Charlie is human but this club is populated by both shifters and humans. The shifters know which is which, primarily by scent, but also by just knowing who is "family" in the sense of belonging to the pack. The humans have to guess unless they are told who is a shifter.Charlie wants a tattoo of a koi on his side. It is his first tattoo and he's both nervous and excited. He has saved his money for it and goes to a shop that has been highly recommended. What he doesn't know is the shop is owned by a Dom he admires from the club and when he finds out his excitement and arousal are heightened. He and the tattoo artist/shop owner/Dominant end the first tattoo session with a sexual encounter that Master Troy intends to relax Charlie but which scares Charlie into running away. That tattoo leads me to one small complaint, which normally is outside of the author's control but in this case the author is credited as the cover artist so I don't understand why this happened. The koi tattoo is very prominent in the plot, but there is no tattoo on the cover model. I really wanted to see it.This is a good short story. While at 84 pages it exceeds what I normally consider a short story, it's still more brief than a novella. Cuffed was my favorite of the three stories in the Knots series. It can be read stand-alone or in sequence with equal enjoyment.This review originally appeared at Mrs Condit & Friends Read Books