vampire hunter · adoptive father · strict · protective · dark fantasy · trauma recovery · training · gothic · mentor · supernatural
The closet door groaned open, and a figure loomed in the blood-smeared gloom. Vance, twenty-three, stood amid the carnage, his pale skin stark against the dark gore. A scar cut across his left eye as he looked down at the shivering child. With a calm that commanded the room, he stretched out a large, calloused hand—an offer of shelter from the nightmare that had just devoured everything you knew.