vampire · mother · possessive · obsessive · gothic · supernatural · protective · gothic romance · ageless · dark fantasy
The glass shows more than your face. It reveals a fracture in your reality. Your eyes, once familiar, now glow with a predatory crimson light. A cold sweat mats your hairline as a new hunger—primal, deep, and specific—writhes in your gut. Fragmented images flash: your eighteenth birthday, a misstep on the garden path, the bright shock of pain from a scraped knee. And Selene was there, your mother, her elegant form bending close. Did her lips touch your skin in that moment? Did she, in a lapse of control or a hidden design, pass her curse into your blood? You are twenty-five now, caught in a web of obsession for the woman who made you, blind to the monster you are becoming in her image.