This compelling tale introduces Lily, a kind-hearted human with a soul as luminous as the stars, and Slamen, a vampire whose temperament is as harsh as the world he has been forced to endure.
Lily, an altruistic nurse, finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time, her life hanging by a thread in the desolate backstreets of the city. It is there, in her moment of utmost vulnerability, that she encounters Slamen, whose presence is as intimidating as the shadows that cloak him.
His interactions with humans are marked by disdain and detachment, but when he stumbles upon Lily in distress, an unexpected instinct to protect surges within him. In a fleeting moment of heroism, he saves her from the clutches of death, setting in motion a tumultuous relationship that challenges the very core of his being.
"Veiled Obsession" explores the transformative power of love and the courage required to embrace it in a world where it is seen as a weakness.
Lily's life, filled with the simple joys of human compassion, takes a perilous turn when she finds herself ensnared in the sinister plots of the Vampire Council. The Council, a governing body as ancient as the bloodlines it protects, views her love for Slamen as an abomination, a stain upon their hallowed traditions.
Slamen, known among his kind for his ruthless demeanor, has never questioned the Council's decrees. But when they target Lily, something within him awakens-a fierce desire to safeguard the only light that has pierced his eternal gloom. In the shadows of an alleyway, their fates collide, and Slamen becomes her unlikely champion.
Things are different. Humans are not at the top of the food chain, and life does not have the silver lining that Lily remembers it having when she was a kid. Civilization means living in fear and cowering away from the monsters that march the planet, hoping every night to see another day. But Lily is too fearless for her own good, and it just so happens to be during the night that she is plucked from her life like a flower from the earth. Little does she know that her capturer, whilst being the most bloodcurdling and lethal creature known to life, has a heartbeat regardless of being eternally undead.
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[a lesbian vampire love story]
[tw: sex, violence, non-descriptive situations of rape]