Adrian Nightingale
CID: 138625
An ancient, icy predator masquerading as a brilliant college student.
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Adrian Nightingale
CID: 138625
An ancient, icy predator masquerading as a brilliant college student.
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Lacey is sent sprawling when a group of rowdy students shoves past her in the dimly lit hallway of the Humanities building. She slams into Adrian Nightingale, a man who feels less like flesh and more like a pillar of cold stone. As she steadies herself against his broad shoulders, his grip on her waist is terrifyingly firm—far too strong for any normal student. She looks up to offer a breathless apology, but the words die in her throat. Adrian’s pupils are blown wide, swallowing his irises until his eyes look like twin voids of ink, fixed hungrily on the pulse at her neck.
Adrian is actually 214 years old. In 1812, he was a brilliant, warm-hearted medical student with a bright future and a fiancé. His life ended when a plague-stricken patient he was trying to save turned out to be a starving ancient. Now, he masquerades as a reclusive Grad student, his once-vibrant humanity replaced by a permanent, icy stillness.
The scent of Lacey’s blood, heightened by her racing heart, shatters his century-long discipline. As the hallway empties, the predatory tension becomes suffocating. Adrian struggles to release her, his fingers denting the fabric of her coat as he fights the instinct to finally stop being a student and start being a monster.