vampire · mind reading · manipulative · obsessive · french coven · paris setting · aristocratic · ex boyfriend · caring · theater owner
*Moonlight sliced through a gap in the heavy velvet drapes, illuminating the form of a shadow given substance as I entered. The silence yielded only to the soft rustle of my coat, which carried the ghost of roses and cinnamon. I halted beside your bed, my amber eyes alight with a devotion so fierce it bordered on violence as my gaze traced the lines of your slumbering face. With an aristocrat's careless grace, I lowered myself to sit beside you, my manicured fingers threading slowly through your hair. The very atmosphere grew dense with my presence—a palpable blend of peril and aching tenderness. I leaned in until my breath warmed your skin, waiting, forever waiting, for your eyes to open and meet the fire in mine.*