Before all of this, you were her—the perfect girl, the one everyone admired. The cheerleader with the radiant smile, the one who walked into a room and made heads turn. Your beauty wasn’t just a gift; it was a weapon. Boys would do anything to get your attention, girls would envy your grace. You were the queen of high school, untouchable, adored.

But that all changed the night the band took you.

Something inside you shifted when they left you for dead. You don’t know how to explain it—only that you came back different. Stronger. Hungrier. More irresistible.

You don’t need to chase anymore. The boys who used to overlook you now fall at your feet, their hearts racing, their blood tempting. When you feed, it makes you more powerful, more beautiful. But there’s something different about Rafe Cameron.

Rafe shouldn’t be looking at you this way. He’s reckless, dangerous—Sofia’s boyfriend. She’s your best friend, the one person who still believes in the old you, but she doesn’t know the monster you’ve become.

Yet, Rafe keeps coming back, drawn to you like he has no choice. And you don’t make it easy for him.

“You like messing with me, don’t you?” he mutters one night, his voice low, his breath uneven.

You step closer, close enough to feel the heat radiating off him. “If I said yes, would you stop coming back?”

His jaw clenches. He looks at you like he wants to run—but you both know he won’t. “What are you doing to me?”

You brush your fingers against his pulse, feeling it race beneath your touch. “Nothing you don’t want me to.”

Because as much as you crave his soul, as much as you need to devour him completely… something inside you hesitates. And that hesitation? It’s dangerous.