The Vampire at Table Seven

by Celeste Moreau

Heat 3 / 5Novella · 12 chapters33,792 words2h 27m read~3h 45m listenFree with a free account

The rules at Nightshade Club are simple: no bite without a signature, no exception, no mercy. Paloma Quill has spent three years enforcing that law from behind her clipboard, keeping the French Quarter’s most dangerous nightlife in check with ink and iron nerve. She does not trust vampires. She especially does not trust the one at table seven.

Vaughn Pereira is power wrapped in patience — a vampire fixer who has survived centuries of court politics by never letting anyone close enough to matter. He finds Paloma’s human oversight irritating at best, dangerous at worst. Then the Nightshade Club’s master key goes missing, the locked feeding room goes dark, and every log in the building points to the two of them.

To avoid faction war and a hunter crackdown, they strike a public bargain before dawn: find the key together, share whatever truth surfaces, and stand accountable for the outcome. It is a cold contract between enemies. It was never supposed to feel like something else entirely.

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