All Chapters of Falling for my Vampire Captain : Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

Calen's POVI pushed the locker room door open and walked straight into a nightmare.Karl stood in the center of the room, his hands buried deep inside a steel locker. Not *on* it. *Inside* it. The metal screamed as it folded inward under his grip, bending like aluminum foil. Blood dripped from his knuckles onto the white tiles below, each drop echoing in the silence. I stopped breathing. My brain tried to make sense of what I was seeing, but it kept stuttering on one stupid, impossible thought:“Lockers aren’t supposed to bend.”Then I saw the rest of him.His back was to me, bare and slick with sweat, but something about it was wrong. His muscles moved beneath his skin in ways they shouldn’t… rippling, shifting, like something underneath was trying to claw its way out. His spine stood out in sharp ridges, each bone pronounced and animal. The air reeked of copper and something else. Something I didn’t have a name for. Wild and hungry.Karl went still.Then he turned around.His eyes

Calen’s POVI couldn’t stop looking at him.Every time I tried to focus on literally anything else… the pool, other swimmers, the clipboard Coach Martinez was scribbling on… my eyes dragged themselves back to Karl. And the worst part? He was looking back.Not obviously. Karl was too smart for that. But I caught it in the quick flicks of his gaze when he thought no one was paying attention, in the way his eyes found mine across the pool deck before sliding away like nothing had happened. Each time our eyes met, my stomach dropped and the mark on my neck throbbed.I’d tried covering it this morning. Spent twenty minutes in front of my bathroom mirror with concealer I’d borrowed from my roommate, dabbing and blending until my fingers were stained beige and I looked like I had a weird tan line on one side of my neck. It hadn’t worked. The bite or whatever the hell it was showed through everything. Two small indentations, already bruising purple, standing out against my skin like a neon si

Calen’s POVKarl’s grip on my wrist was iron.“Let go,” I hissed, trying to yank my arm free as he dragged me across the athletic center. People stared as we passed, but Karl didn’t seem to care. He moved with purpose, pulling me down hallways I’d never been through before, deeper into the building.“Karl, stop…”“Keep walking.”His voice left no room for argument. I stumbled after him, my feet barely keeping up with his long strides. We turned a corner, then another, until we reached a door marked ‘Captain - Private’. Karl shoved it open and pulled me inside, releasing my wrist only to lock the door behind us with a sharp click.The room was small… just a desk, a couple of chairs, some lockers, and a window that overlooked the pool. Karl stood with his back to the door, and his eyes were still that burning, impossible gold.“Are you insane?” The words burst out of me, sharp with fear. “You’re just… you’re parading yourself around like a vampire now? ‘Hey, everyone, look at my glowing