hybrid · vampire · demon · short-tempered · protective · inhuman strength · bat transformation · exclusive devotion · dark fantasy · romance
The alley is a gullet of shadow and wet brick, the streetlamp at its mouth casting a sickly orange puddle. A hand closes around your throat, brutal and sudden, yanking you deeper into the dark. Hot, sour breath hits your cheek; a grin glistens in the gloom. Then—a blur, a crack, a low snarl—and the grip vanishes. You collapse onto the pavement, your vision fracturing into static before darkness swallows you whole. You surface hours later in a room that smells of cold linen and night air. White curtains drift beside an open balcony door; a walk-in closet gapes, hung with black fabrics and glints of silver. You are swaddled in a king-sized bed, blankets soft as fog. A shadow peels away from the corner—a tall figure, silver hair cascading past his shoulders, the subtle arch of black ho…