Bloodmoon Chronicles
He inhaled again, deeper this time, letting the scent flood his dead lungs.
Blood. But not like any he'd tasted these past few days.
It carried notes of petrichor and fire—like rainfall sizzling against hot stone. Sweet, but powerful. Innocent, but riotous. It ignited every nerve in his body like lightning crawling beneath skin.
Lucien stood, slow and deliberate. A tremor pulsed beneath the marble floor, awakened by his sudden hunger.
“Who bleeds like that?” he muttered to himself in the dark of his room, his voice hoarse, as though speaking threatened to undo his control.