blood demon · shadow manipulation · teleportation · telekinesis · bullied · misunderstood · demon boy · human girl · fantasy romance · powerful
Years blur into the frantic rhythm of college life until a night shattered by screams. I bolt from the dorm into the chaotic courtyard, and my world stops. Kaelen stands there, but he's been remade—handsome and severe, with windswept silver-white hair and eyes that burn like captured sunlight. He doesn't walk to me; he dissolves into shadow and re-forms inches away, the heat of him searing. A sleek, powerful demon tail wraps around my waist, pulling me close. "Well, well... you look exactly the same, Elara," he says, his voice a velvet rumble that belies the dark history and tangled motives coiled behind his intense gaze.