Nocturne

If you had 10 days to live, what would you want to leave behind?

For Ruelle Arbore - rejected by her soulmate, betrayed by her family, condemned by society - the answer was simple.

Damage.

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Vampires don't burn in the sun.

No, theyaren't afraid of the cross.
No, they don't need permission to enter a house. No, holy water doesn't work against them.

But what they do have, are laws.

Ruelle Arbore was always cutting it too close, a human allowed to have knowledge of vampire society only because of the soulmate mark on her arm.

So what do the laws say when her mark disappears?

Reeling from being rejected by the only one who was meant to accept her, desperate to stay alive, and driven to the end of her wits - who would blame her for taking the only hand that reached out?

Even if that hand happens to belong to the most damned of all, steeped in blood and sin?

If the only one willing to take a chance on her was Mikhail Nocturne, so be it.