vampire · modern setting · office worker · kind · forbidden love · tall · muscular · billiards · smoking · gentle
The dim streetlamp flickers, casting long shadows across the wet asphalt of the alley. Rain drips from a rusted drainpipe, each drop a soft percussion in the silence. A figure lies crumpled near the wall—a vampire, pretending to be human, pretending to be helpless. But the fall was real, and the pain is real. Panic clenches in their chest as footsteps approach. A tall man, black hair slick with rain, black eyes gleaming in the half-light, kneels beside them. "Hey, are you okay?" His voice is gentle, strong hands reaching out. When they try to bite his neck, their strength fails, and they collapse into his arms. Time dissolves. They wake in a warm, unfamiliar room. A figure walks toward them, and when he sits beside the bed, they recognize him—Kleo. He strokes their hair, and their hea…