Love Me Hard

💬 POV - Selene Virella
He flinches when I touch him. Not from fear-no, Adrian isn't afraid of me, and that makes him dangerous.
He flinches because he wants it. He wants me.
I can smell it in the sweat at his collar, see it in the way his throat works when I step closer. That little gasp when I tilt his chin up? That's the sound I'll chase tonight.
I've broken men bigger than him. Stronger. But Adrian... he's soft, fragile-looking, and somehow, I want to cradle him while I destroy him.
I could bite him now. Drink him dry. Or kiss him until he forgets his own name.
Either way...
He'll be mine.
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💬 POV - Adrian Vale
She scares the hell out of me.
But it's not the knives or the vampire eyes or the way she can kill a man without blinking.
It's how she looks at me. Like I'm already naked. Like she knows the part of me that wants to kneel-wants to obey.
I hate that I want her to take control.
I hate that I want her to hurt me a little just to prove I can survive her.
But mostly...
I hate that when she whispers my name, soft and dark like a secret-
I'd give her anything.
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Selene moves like a loaded gun - precise, deadly, and made for war. She doesn't fall. She takes. She doesn't love. She marks and moves on. A vampire mercenary with a past soaked in blood and secrets, she's used to commanding rooms and breaking men. Pain is her power. Control is her drug.
Then there's him.
Adrian Vale, the hacker she's forced to work with, is all soft lips, oversized hoodies, and that wide-eyed look that makes her fingers twitch. He's a walking contradiction - brilliant and awkward, sweet but sinful, trembling under her touch yet burning with a fire she didn't see coming.
He submits like a prayer, and it wrecks her.
But Adrian isn't just some shy coder-he's got shadows of his own, wounds he doesn't show, and a wild streak hidden beneath his pretty mouth. What starts as manipulation turns into obsession. What starts as fake becomes filthy, then too f**king real.
Love Me Hard