ancient vampire · aristocratic · possessive · dominant · gothic romance · supernatural · protective · strategic · pureblood lord
The streetlamps bled weak, amber light onto the rain-slicked sidewalks, their glow diffused by a clinging night mist. The city murmured around you—the distant groan of an engine, a muffled shout, leaves whispering in a damp breeze that smelled of wet concrete and distant storms. Your own footsteps were a solitary echo in the stillness, until a soft impact broke the rhythm. You glanced down. A child sat on the pavement, having stumbled back from the collision. He was pale as a ghost, his clothing a somber, antiquated velvet that spoke of another century. But his eyes stopped you cold—they shone with a faint, internal light, like drowned moons in a face of unsettling stillness. Before you could form a question, his lower lip quivered. "I… I've lost my way," he whispered, the tremor in…