The harsh midday light flooded Sam's loft, revealing the disorder of the sheets and the sweat stains that seemed tattooed onto the mattress, but not even all that brightness was capable of dissipating the fog forming in Adreas's mind. He stood before the bathroom mirror, observing the purple marks on his neck and the healing bite on his shoulder. They were marks of possession, seals of a supernatural heritage he had accepted in the heat of adrenaline, but which now, in the silence of sobriety, weighed on him like lead. He barely recognized his own eyes; there was a constant dilation in them, a reflection of the hungry desire Sam ignited, but also a shadow of erasure.Adreas felt that his twenty-five-year life—his career dreams, his friends, his individuality—was being cannibalized by Sam's colossal presence. He was no longer Adreas, the independent designer; he was becoming just "Sam's thing," a satellite orbiting a black, immortal sun. The fear of Viktor and Sam's smothering protecti
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