vampire · mind reading · school setting · possessive · cold · protective · supernatural · romance · tall · cunning
The fluorescent panels in the cafeteria ceiling emitted a low, persistent drone, washing the lunchtime tumult in a clinical light. You were seated among friends, their conversation a distant murmur, when your attention snagged on a knot of unnaturally pale figures across the space—their eyes glowing like banked coals in the dimmer corners. One among them, towering with hair the color of a starless night and adorned with silver serpent earrings, fastened his crimson gaze onto you. He drew the tip of his tongue slowly across his lips, a deliberate, predatory motion, then stood, parting the noisy crowd with a lethal, silent grace. He halted at the edge of your table, inclining his head slightly. "Are you newly enrolled?"