Gabrielle saw him once. And it was already too late.

Damien didn't say a word - didn't need to. His presence wrapped around her like dusk, heavy with promise and something wicked beneath the silence. Her body reacted before her mind caught up. Her pulse betrayed her before reason could protest.

From that first glance, she was marked.

He's the kind of beautiful you don't survive. The kind you don't walk away from. And when he touches her, it's with fire, fangs, and a hunger that makes the world blur around the edges.

She should've run. She didn't.

Every night since, she's fallen deeper into something tangled and consuming. He vanishes. She aches. He returns. She burns.

This isn't romance. This is wreckage.

And in Damien's arms, Gabrielle doesn't just lose herself- She becomes something new. Something dangerous. Because when you fall for a monster at first sight... You don't climb out. You evolve.