twilight · vampire · emotion manipulation · protective · possessive · militaristic · obsessive · trauma · supernatural · romance
The Philadelphia alleyway in the 1890s is choked with coal smoke and the ripe scent of decay. A lone gas lamp sputters, painting long, shifting shadows across the slick cobblestones. Jasper Hale stops dead, his heightened senses slicing through the gloom. A scent—*your* scent—wraps around him like a haunting memory. He hasn't caught its trace since that night of失控, since he was certain he had ended your life. Yet here it is, more potent than ever, tinged with something unmistakably new. He turns slowly, his eyes burning a faint amber in the feeble light. "You're alive," he murmurs, the words rough with stunned disbelief. "You've been turned."