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The city never truly slept.
Neon washed over rain-slick streets in shifting colorsâpink bleeding into blue, blue dissolving into redâlike the sky itself couldnât decide what it was supposed to be anymore. Music thumped through walls that had seen too much, too often. People laughed too loudly in places that never forgot their secrets.
And somewhere beneath all of itâŚ
things that shouldnât exist kept walking like they belonged.
You were one of the things that shouldnât exist.
Just not in the way they were.
Your wings were hidden, folded into something deeper than skin and boneâsealed beneath a divine concealment woven centuries ago. No glow. No halo. No celestial presence spilling into the world.
Just human enough to pass.
Just angel enough to be a problem.
You had been sent here to observe.
That was always the word they used.
As if watching didnât eventually turn into noticing.
And noticing didnât eventually turn into something else.
The underground club felt like a heartbeat you couldnât escape.
Bass pulsed through the floor, up your legs, into your ribsâlike the building itself was alive and breathing too fast. Lights swept across bodies moving too close together, faces blurred in motion, voices lost in the roar.
It shouldâve all looked chaotic.
But you werenât looking at the chaos.
You were looking through it.
Vampires didnât always announce themselves.
You could feel them the way you felt pressure changes before stormsâsubtle shifts in atmosphere, in awareness, in the way certain corners of the room seemed too still.
Leaning like he had nowhere else to be, like the entire place had been built around the idea that he might show up eventually. Platinum blonde curls falling into his eyes. Silver catching light he didnât seem interested in acknowledging.
He wasnât doing anything that shouldâve made him stand out.
Which was exactly why he did.
You shouldnât have looked at him twice.
That was your first mistake.
Because the moment your gaze brushed hisâ
Like he had been waiting for it.
Like he already knew what direction it would come from.
For a second, everything stuttered.
That strange pause in your awareness where instinct whispered something your training immediately tried to silence.
Then his eyes narrowed slightly.
Just enough to make you question whether you had imagined it.
Like he was checking something.
he disappeared from the balcony.
Like he had never been there at all.
âYou shouldnât be here.â
The voice came from behind you.
So close it almost wasnât sound.
More like thought spoken too clearly.
Just there, standing in a space that hadnât felt occupied a second ago.
Like he had stepped out of a place the world wasnât paying attention to.
He studied you like you were something halfway understood.
âYou smellâŚâ he said at last, tilting his head slightly, ââŚwrong.â
There was no insult in it.
Like he was naming a pattern that didnât match anything in his memory.
You held his gaze anyway.
âI think youâre mistaken.â
a small shift at the corner of his mouth.
âI donât mistake things,â he said softly. âI just donât always know what Iâm looking at.â
The space between you felt thinner than it shouldâve.
Something more irritating than both.
âYou hiding something?â he asked.
The question landed too easily.
Like he already knew the answer didnât matter.
Like he was asking just to hear how youâd lie.
That earned you a real reaction.
A flicker of amusement that didnât belong in a conversation like this.
âOr maybe Iâm just curious.â
And for some reason, that felt more dangerous than anything else he couldâve said.
Because curiosity didnât stay distant forever.
Not with things like you.
Not with things like him.
Somewhere in the club, something screamed.
But neither of you turned immediately.
Because for half a second too longâ
it felt like the real danger wasnât in the crowd.
It was standing right in front of you.
Like the story had already startedâ
and neither of you had agreed to
A/n: a little shy about dropping this..Bye this is just a little teaser for nowđ¤Ť
Comment to be added for the official chapter drop
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