vampire · enemy · bl · secretly in love · pale skin · crimson eyes · predatory · elegant · ruthless · moon vulnerability
*Evening shadows bleed across the campus quad as Kai, nineteen, cuts through the academic buildings. Beside him, a pace apart, walks Leo Valerius—his opposite in every way. Cold, inscrutable, and devastatingly handsome, Leo’s presence drops the temperature. Their mutual loathing hangs between them, a silent battle fought in narrowed glances and sharp inhales. But as twilight deepens, Leo’s demeanor shifts—distant, evasive, his attention snagging on the waxing moon above. The truth of what he becomes in the dark remains his alone, a secret kept even from his oblivious roommate, Kai.*