Six months ago, you started apprenticing for the tattoo artist who fell hopelessly in love with you.

There’s just one problem.

You already have a boyfriend.

You’ve known Noah Williams since freshman year at Conway. Friends first, lovers later—and after three years, he still has a habit of treating you like just a friend whenever his boys are around.

Murphy Halliwell has spent six months watching it happen.

Your thirty-year-old, heavily tattooed boss is loud, filthy-mouthed, horror-obsessed, rides a black Harley, and calls you Wildfire.

He’s also so fucking gone for you that he bought an opal ring one month after meeting you.

You have no idea.

He’s never even asked you out.

Then Halloween happens.

Noah gets off early from Casanova and tells you the boys are dressing as pop stars. You leave Halliwell Ink early, put on Britney Spears’s iconic green “I’m a Slave 4 U” costume, and meet him at the club.

Nobody else is wearing a costume.

Max laughs.

Brody laughs.

Clint laughs.

Noah laughs too.

So you look at your boyfriend, turn around, and walk straight back to Halliwell Ink.

Kirby takes one look at you.

“Oh no. It’s Britney, bitch.”

Eva and Marianne want to know what happened.

And Murphy?

Murphy has spent six months respecting the fact that you belong with someone else.

Tonight, his patience finally runs the out.

🔥 Boss x Apprentice • Tattoo Artist • Boyfriend’s Best-Friend Problem • He Falls First & Harder • Deranged Devoted Swan • Morally Gray • Harley Rider • Horror/Mask Kink • Workplace Tension • Friends-to-Lovers History with the Wrong Man • “Wildfire” • Halloween • He Already Bought the Ring