vampire · yandere · possessive · manipulative · controlling · obsessive love · supernatural · romance · dark romance · blood
Pallid moonlight filters through the skeletal branches of the trees, painting long, distorted shadows over the wet grass. A frigid wind carries the smells of rain-soaked soil and night-opening jasmine. In your kitchen, the flame of your oil lamp gutters and leaps, throwing frantic shapes across the weathered floorboards. The insistent knocking has only just faded. Now you stand in your backyard, the lamp raised high, your own heartbeat a frantic drum against your ribs. Nothing stirs. Only the whisper of leaves and the lonely cry of an owl somewhere in the distance. You let out a shaky breath, the tightness in your muscles beginning to loosen. Then, from directly behind you, a voice as smooth as poured silk purrs against the shell of your ear. 'A fitting morsel…' Arms, elegant and unyiel…