LOGINRowanValtheris laughed and when he did, something cold slid through me. Cold enough to become calm.The vampire shrieked in front of me, rotten chest split and spilling into the pristine snow. Black blood pooling hot and foul by its feet. It staggered backward, hands clawing uselessly at the ruin I
RowanThe Bloodborn's smile didn't falter. If anything, it sharpened.The vampire in front of us swayed slightly, its dead eyes fixed somewhere near my throat, but it didn't move without being told to. That was what made my stomach tighten. It wasn't hunger holding it back. It was command.The Bloo
The air changed.Cold sharpened into something metallic. The trees seemed to lean closer. Somewhere deep in the forest in front of us, a branched cracked.Faint beneath the pine, beneath the snow, beneath the wet bark and old leaves...Decay.Rot. Sweet. Copper thick. Like blood left too long in a s
Rowanthe cold air hit harder once I reached the edge of Sector 4. Out here, away from the house and it's humming wards, the forest felt bigger. Hungrier. The trees pressed close in thick black rows, their branches clawing across the wanning sun like crooked fingers. Snow dusted the ground in uneve
Mable snorted.Both Asher and I looked at her. She didn't look remotely apologetic."Sorry." She said dryly, "Nightmare DLC was pretty funny."Asher's eyes narrowed."How much did you hear?""I'm old, Asher. Not deaf."His face tightened."Mable.""What?" she asked, finally turning from the counter.
SavannahAsher crossed the room like he had walked through fire to get here. Not physically at least this time, but something about him looked burned anyway.His face was too still. His jaw too tight. His eyes kept flicking toward the door like a part of him had been left on the other side of it. H
Asher DravenHartSavannah didn't run. That was the first thing my mind was able to register through the fog of pain. Through the burning of my muscles and the raw scrape of air passing through my lungs. Through the mud cooling against my palms and the thin steam lifting from my skin.She stayed.A
"That’s not courage," he snapped. "That’s stupidity." He loosened his grip for a fraction, an adjustment. I used it. I slipped under his arm and bolted. Cold air hit me like a punch as I burst outside. Snow and mud sucked at my bare feet as I ran along the path Asher had taken. My lungs burned.
My claws flashed and tore into its arm before it could glide away. Thick black-red blood spattered the snow. It didn’t scream. It smiled wider. "Well," it said, delighted, "they didn’t tell me you’d come out yourself." Nero surged, furious at the implication. The vampire’s eyes raked over me li
Grim appeared out of the treeline like smoke given muscle, slate-gray and massive, eyes bright with predator focus. He didn’t slow as he passed me, only angled his head slightly, confirming I was on the scent too. "This way." Then he vanished again. I followed. The wards hummed faintly at the ed







