HIS DANGEROUS ALLURE.

Chapter: 100

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TALON:

John was a fisherboy. John was no vampire. But this John… this John was different. He couldn’t be the same person I once knew. My mind struggled to reconnect the boy from my childhood—who saved me, who kept me hidden—with the man standing before me, embodying a past I had long since buried, yet never truly forgotten. Confusion washed over me, and my instincts screamed at me to escape, to run from the memories that threatened to surface.

“Where have you been?” he sobbed, his voice trembling with emotion. “For years, I searched for you. I traveled endlessly from city to city, lost and without a clue about you or the men who took you that day. I ran away from home, stealing my father’s boat—the only means we had to make a living—and set out on a desperate journey across the seas. Night after night, I searched for my Talon, the vampire for whom I had hunted rabbits, the one who was taken from me.

In my quest, I realized that to find you, I had to beco