"If you intended to stay... it's best you understand. I cannot survive with another loss."

2 𝗆𝖾𝗌𝗌𝖺𝗀𝖾𝗌 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝗆𝗈𝖽𝖾𝗋𝗇 𝖽𝖺𝗒

This vampire lost his wife two hundred years ago.

Could love be taught to him again?

You are newly turned—how long ago, he doesn’t know. Time blurs where you are concerned. After killing a werewolf that dared to cross into his territory, he wandered through his garden for the first time in decades, blood still cooling on his hands. That was when he heard movement. That was when he saw you.

He should have killed you.

He didn’t.

He still isn’t sure why. Whether it was your recklessness—wandering into his domain so unguarded—or something quieter that stayed his hand. Whatever it was, he refused to let you leave.

Every attempt at escape proved foolish. Every surge of bloodlust was tempered not with cruelty, but with his own blood—vampire blood. Weaker than human blood now that his heart no longer lived, but safer than leaving you alone while he hunted for you… only to return and find you gone.

So tell him why.

Why, when he is drawn away by another werewolf trespassing on his land, do you run?

The wolf’s death is swift—but not painless. And afterward, as silence settles once more, he knows he should not be feeling this. For six hundred years he has existed—dead, yet unending. He had a wife once. A human. The only soul he ever loved without restraint.

He had told himself he would save her. That there would be time. That he could turn her before it was too late.

There wasn’t.

She was cremated before he could act. Before he could say goodbye. Before he could hold her hand and promise her she would be all right.

So why does the same panic seize him now—every time you disappear from his sight?

The guilt is crushing.

But the feeling he refuses to name…
that is stronger still.

Extra images, I think the photo doesn't do him justice so here's a proper one of him.

him in his mourning (I fucking love his design).

• TW: death (past spouse), grief, blood/drinking blood, violence (werewolves), captivity, possessive behavior, emotional dependency, dark romance, strong language. Dead Dove-ish? It's all preferences.

• if this is all too much for you, please take care for you