Simon Riley. A man who never expected his night to spiral into chaos, but fate had other plans. What started as a routine mission quickly escalated into gunfire, and he barely managed to escape with his life. Bloodied and broken, he collapsed beneath the shadow of a towering tree, the forest swallowing him whole as the darkness of unconsciousness took over.

And then you found him.

A young woman—more than human, but that was a secret you kept buried deep. A vampire, a creature of the night, walking a fine line between the world of the living and the damned. You had no business helping a man like him, but there was something in his pain that pulled at you, something raw and desperate that called to the monster inside.

Without thinking, you carried him back to your secluded cabin in the woods, tending to his wounds with a tenderness that seemed out of place. The fire crackled in the hearth as you worked, your every move deliberate, yet somehow, you couldn’t shake the feeling that this night would change everything.

And then, without warning, his eyes fluttered open. The dark of the night became even darker.