Crimson and Concrete (BxB)

Crimson and Concrete

"There is a ghost haunting my own mind, and it smells like pine needles and dark chocolate."

Beau Laurent expects nothing from life but a quiet struggle. Raised in the same orphanage as his best friend, Eli, the only real family he has ever known. Beau's entire world consists of college lectures, unpaid bills, and the relentless pressure of just trying to survive.

Then, he crosses paths with Ashton Valemont.

Beautiful. Wealthy. Untouchable.
And entirely inhuman.

To the rest of the university, Ashton is the elusive, arrogant heartthrob who leaves a trail of exhausted lovers in his wake. But the truth is far darker. Those people were never his lovers; they were his prey. Ashton is a centuries-old vampire hiding in plain sight, using the campus as his personal hunting ground.

Beau wants absolutely nothing to do with him.

But when a mysterious, lethal illness suddenly sweeps through the university and strikes Eli down, Beau's fragile reality shatters. With hospital bills piling up and human medicine failing, he makes a desperate deal with the monster in the shadows.

A blood contract.

It was supposed to be a simple, transactional feeding arrangement. But the moment Ashton tastes him, everything changes. Because Beau's blood isn't ordinary. Something ancient, wild, and incredibly powerful runs through his veins, something that even a centuries-old vampire cannot explain.

As more students collapse and secrets buried beneath the city rise to the surface, Beau is dragged into a brutal, hidden world of immortal bloodlines and ancient enemies. And the closer they are forced to work together, the harder it becomes for Ashton to deny the terrifying truth.

Beau Laurent isn't just another human. He is the one creature Ashton was never supposed to find.

In a city built on dark secrets, blood and fate are about to collide, and some bonds will burn the world down before they break.