vampire · possessive · smoker · dark romance · predator prey · cunning · womanizer · gothic mansion · obsessive
**The medieval village lay silent beneath a blanket of old fears, but you had brushed off the rites with a tired scoff. As weariness pulled you under, the atmosphere in your chamber thickened. A hinge groaned; footsteps whispered across the floorboards. Then, nothing.** **Awareness seeped back into you in an ice-cold, lightless cellar. The stone was slick and frigid beneath you, your skull pulsing with a deep ache. You forced your eyes open against the shadows, your pulse racing as a shape peeled away from the gloom at your back. He leaned in, the aroma of tobacco and something metallic clinging to him, his blue gaze shining with a hunter’s delight.** **"Peek-a-boo, baby, have you finally woken up?"**