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Author: Roshni
last update publish date: 2026-04-14 08:39:44

Rydan's POV

I was on my feet before the movement had fully registered as a decision.

Three centuries had produced, among other things, the ability to move from stillness to action without the intermediate stage that most people required. I was across the parlour and at the point where the shadow met the lamplight’s edge before the figure had finished passing through it.

Nothing.

The shadow was just shadow. The wall behind it was just wall. I stood in the dark section of the parlour and read the
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  • Falling for my Vampire Captain    145

    Rydan’s POVI let go of him.Not because he had given me what I needed… he hadn’t, not really. Three words and the confirmation that there were eyes on us in places I hadn’t yet mapped. But holding a frightened teenager against a wall until he gave me more wasn’t something I was going to do, and the look in his eyes told me that more wasn’t something he was currently capable of giving regardless of how long I held him there.I stepped back.He stayed against the wall for a moment, surprised by the release. Then he was moving, fast in the way of someone who has been given an exit and intends to use it before the exit changes its mind. He was around the corner and gone before I had taken two steps toward the street.I didn’t follow him.I stood in the gap between the buildings for a moment and let the information organise itself into something I could work with. They were watching. Not just at the mansion, not just at the academy, not just in the specific locations we had moved through

  • Falling for my Vampire Captain    144

    Rydan’s POVI put my hand on his back and kept it there.“I’m here,” I said. “You’re in the room. You’re safe.”He was still pressing his fingers to his throat, which told me that wherever he had been in the dream had felt physical enough to leave a residue in his body that his waking mind hadn’t fully separated from yet. I watched him breathe and kept my hand where it was and let the room do its work… the lamp, the familiar walls, the weight of Bruno repositioning himself at the end of the bed with the small sounds of a dog adjusting.Gradually, the quality of Franklin’s breathing changed.Not calmed exactly… the kind of breath that came after something and knew it had come after something, but had reached the other side of the worst of it. He lowered his hands from his throat.“She was real,” he said. “That’s what it felt like.”“I know,” I said. “Dreams like that feel that way.”He looked at me and I could see him deciding whether to push back on that characterisation, and then dec

  • Falling for my Vampire Captain    143

    Rydan's POVI was on my feet before the movement had fully registered as a decision.Three centuries had produced, among other things, the ability to move from stillness to action without the intermediate stage that most people required. I was across the parlour and at the point where the shadow met the lamplight’s edge before the figure had finished passing through it.Nothing.The shadow was just shadow. The wall behind it was just wall. I stood in the dark section of the parlour and read the air in every direction and found nothing that should not have been there… no trace, no warmth, no signature of any kind. The space was clean in the complete, deliberate way that these spaces kept being clean, as if whatever moved through them had learned, specifically, how to leave nothing behind.I went back to the sofa.I sat. I looked at the screen. The film was still running, the characters going through their business with the cheerful indifference of people who existed only in lit, warm r

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