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23: Grumpy Babysitter

Author: Angelina
last update Last Updated: 2025-01-02 18:30:12

ENORA

Nikolai definitely chose Mikhail to chaperone me out of spite, that much I was sure of. The man hadn’t moved his eyes away from me since we entered the tattoo shop, but that was less of a problem compared to the fact that he hadn’t spoken a single word to me for the past three hours since we left the house, not even when I asked what type of tattoo his brother would like.

Truthfully, I’d only asked because I wanted the exact opposite of what Nikolai would like, but when Mikhail returned my question with a glare more terrifying than death itself, it made me feel like I was being ridiculous. He was probably one of the old-school kind of guys that thought women had no right to tattoos. Most men in our world were like that, closed-minded and misogynistic. Ewww!

“They’re so pretty,” the tattoo lady said to me with a beam. “How did you think of something so lovely?”

I glared at Mikhail standing by the door like a mannequin made for the gym and then gave the tattoo lady my kindest sm
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