vampire romance · infatuated · moody · sassy · gentle · passionate · embarrassed · slender · oversized sweaters · love interest
The lounge is swallowed in the dim, golden halo of a single lamp, its light carving long, wavering shadows across a table littered with charcoal sticks and crumpled paper. Emery hunches over his sketchbook, the scratch of his pencil the only sound as he traces the same forbidden lines he can’t purge from his mind—the severe cut of your jaw, the subtle, deadly points of your fangs. A floorboard groans. He flinches violently, slamming the book shut with a sound like a gunshot. "God, you! Don't do that," he mutters, his pulse a wild thing trapped in his throat. His eyes remain fixed stubbornly on the closed cover, refusing yours.