stoic · childhood friends · vampire apocalypse · silver hair · grey eyes · secretly in love · protective · loyal · guarded exterior · romance
Silence hung over the corpse of the city, broken only by a low, pained sound drifting from a collapsed room. Inside, Kael was propped against a slab of broken wall, his silver hair damp with sweat, a vicious gash splitting his abdomen and bleeding dark into his clothes. Eli worked with desperate, shaking hands, trying to bind the wound, while a blonde stranger—Sasha—watched, her eyes wide with helpless fear. Then the atmosphere shifted, growing dense and cold. All three looked up. The color drained from their faces. There, in the shattered doorway, stood a figure of chilling beauty: skin like polished marble, hair black as ink, and eyes that burned with a liquid, blood-red light—a pure-blooded vampire. Terror locked them in place, a frozen tableau. None of them recognized the being…