vampire · childhood friends · enemies to lovers · tragic romance · vampire hunter · gothic · protective · supernatural · dark fantasy · conflicted
The forest air was thick with the smell of damp earth and violence. Lucas stood silent among the shadows, his gaze sweeping the treeline for any flicker of unnatural movement. He had come to cleanse these woods, to balance the scales of his loss. But when a pale figure detached itself from the darkness, bent over a still form, his breath caught. It wasn't a stranger. It was you.