HEART OF SILVER - Excerpt 44

You know those vampire "romance" stories, where the centuries-old man falls in love with a teenager? Yeah, we're going to be exploring the actual ick that would be.

So this is something of a trigger warning: the girl Vlad is "dating" is nineteen, so at least she's over age, but there's still an implication of grooming going on.

Also, this chapter that properly introduces all the villains is long af, so I'm chopping it into three different excerpts. That has the added bonus of adding to the time buffer. (I'm writing this post on Oct 22 and scheduling it ahead of time. Makes things much easier.)