

To be fair to Ben, Nikolas had been given permission to do what he liked in his London property.

Nikolas had been forced to tread a very fine line in his own home. Being without his memory had apparently been a holiday for Benjamin Rider-Mikkelsen from which he’d returned…impudent. It was too awful to decide, but the pondering of it, which always involved the temporary drawing being studied and stroked, inevitably led to studying and stroking a little lower, and hence they were in bed in the middle of the day in the middle of the week and not, as Ben remarked, out saving the world.īen joked about a lot of things these days. So thus, the painful predicament…Label Ben as his…but consequently mark him. Ben had done that once to go undercover-blond hair, blue eyes, tattoo-and Nikolas hadn’t liked it one bit. This was only a joke Nikolas had added a few days ago, but it was indicative of the problem obsessing him: he wanted Ben branded as his, but, at the same time, he didn’t want him marked or altered in any way. The simple M turned into an N and then an A, the middle V was now shaped as an arrow pointing down into Ben’s smooth cleft. At the moment, it had the addition of an arrow.

Six months on, it was still temporary, still being drawn on and embellished every so often. As if Nikolas would stay at home in disgrace while Ben Rider-Mikkelsen becomes the target of a crazed stalker… Universal Linkīen could have had no idea when he’d offered to get a tattoo that it would turn into such a huge thing in Nikolas’s mind. It’s fortunate for Ben, therefore, that dissonance is a state of unrest, a longing for completion. But on receiving a death threat, Ben suspects the truth of actor Oliver Whitestone’s suicide. Eleven thousand miles from Nikolas, in New Zealand, it’s bitter winter as Ben films the tragic story of a post-apocalyptic gladiator, a victim of his own personal darkness. A deep rift, a terrible lie, separates them. It’s either a brave or a stupid person who threatens anything Nikolas Mikkelsen loves.īen usually overlooks Nikolas’s occasionally jarring dissonance. Series Blog Tour & Excerpt: More Heat Than The Sun Series
