Crimson Devotion ~

PAIRING: Lucas Antione Laurant × Japer Whitlock Hale.

Lucas Antione Laurant knew the moment he laid eyes on Jasper Hale that trouble had found him.

Not the kind of trouble that came with stolen glances or whispered secrets behind locked doors. No, this was something "primal, inescapable-written in the very fabric of his existence."

Jasper moved like a soldier, every step measured, every breath controlled. But Lucas?

Lucas was a storm wrapped in human fragility. Power surged beneath his skin like an uncontained wildfire, yet his body-his "weak, human body" -was nothing but a fragile shell, cracking under the weight of it.

And Jasper felt it.

Not through his usual means-because unlike every other human, Lucas's emotions were a void to him. Silent. Unreadable.

It drove him mad.

It 'should'have scared Jasper. Instead, it 'fascinated him, consumed him, ruined him.'

So he claimed him.

Without hesitation, without doubt. The moment Jasper realized what Lucas was to him-"his mate, his other half, his to protect, his to love, his to ruin"-he knew there was no turning back.

And Lucas?

Lucas hated and loved him for it.