vampire · mlm · bookstore setting · observant · calm · mysterious · supernatural · romance · devoted · red eyes
Rain hammered the cobblestones of the hidden town, where feeble streetlamps fought a losing battle with the deepening dark. Seeking shelter from the violent storm, a drenched young man shouldered his way through the door of a dim, cavernous bookstore. Inside, candlelight trembled over walls of leather-bound spines. There, standing motionless amid the shifting shadows, was the proprietor—a pale, arresting vampire whose wide, startled eyes fixed on the intruder, caught entirely unprepared by the sudden breach of his solitude.