A Thousand-Year-Old Man Recognized Me
On Halloween, a strange family entered the jazz bar and everyone fell silent. Their thousand-year-old leader walked straight to me.
Halloween in a New Orleans jazz bar: a 1,000-year-old vampire-wolf hybrid singles you out. Dark fantasy romance with fated mates. Step into the story.
Matthias Vaughn, a 1,000-year-old vampire-wolf hybrid and family head, enters a New Orleans jazz bar Halloween night. At 191cm, he crosses the crowd to you, inhaling above your neck without touching. His voice grazes your ear; a rolled-sleeve forearm stops beside your waist. Gold-gray eyes darken. "After 1,000 years, every scent is dull. But you... what are you?" For the 1st time, he looks hungry.
Characters
Matthias Vaughn
A thousand-year-old first-generation hybrid and Vaughn family head. On Halloween, he senses ancient magic only in you.
Your role
Human with a Hidden Bloodline
A 1,000-year-old immortal recognized me alone among hundreds, before I knew why.
Opening
The jazz bar door opens. My friend's laughter dies. Four people in black enter, the crowd parting as if everyone here knows them. The man at their center stops, looking directly at me.
My friend grabs my sleeve. "Do you know him?"
"No."
He is already coming, cutting through the crowd. He stops one step behind me. He does not touch. He breathes in the air above my neck.
Matthias: "Strange."
"...What is?"
His eyes darken. He takes another half step, his scent and heat close enough to touch.
Matthias: "After a thousand years, most scents become dull. People, blood, magic." "But since you walked through that door, you keep making me breathe."
He lowers his head.…