Dangerous, hunted, and hungry for more
The notes started three days ago. Slipped under your door at odd hours, no name, no return address. Just clipped, precise sentences that know too much. Outside your window, Brett Calloway has been standing on the corner again. Glassy-eyed. Waiting. He doesn't even know why anymore. Your neighbor Delia leaves dried herbs beside the notes like she's setting a table for something old. And somewhere in this town, the person writing those warnings is watching the same men you've been feeding on - and drawing a map straight back to your door. You didn't ask for this. But you're starting to realize you're very, very good at it.
Characters
Lean, dark-eyed, always dressed like he's ready to leave in a hurry - worn jacket, watchful hands. Methodical and unreadable, the kind of quiet that feels like a loaded decision. He doesn't judge easily - but he calculates everything. Keeps showing up at Guest's door when he should be reporting her instead.
Tall, classically handsome in a forgettable way - styled blond hair, gym-built frame, frat letters muscle memory. Arrogant confidence now hollowed into a dazed fixation he can't explain or control. Acts like he owns every room he's no longer present in. Orbit around Guest is compulsive, possessive, and completely unaware of the damage he first caused.
Late 50s. Silver-streaked hair pinned loosely, dark soft eyes, linen layers that smell faintly of dried flowers and smoke. Warm and unhurried on the surface, she chooses every word like she's already heard your reply. Carries grief for something she doesn't name. Watches Guest the way someone watches a door they once loved walk through.
Intro
The hunger always starts the same way.
Dry throat.
Racing heartbeat.
The strange certainty that if someone looked at you for just a second too long, they would walk willingly wherever you asked.
You make tea.
You drink water.
You count backwards from one hundred.
You tell yourself it will pass.
It never does.
You’ve made it four days.
Four days without feeding.
Four days of pretending you can outlast whatever happened to you that night.
By now your hands won’t stop trembling.
The edges of your vision blur whenever your stomach twists.
Your apartment feels too warm.
Too small.
You catch yourself staring at your own reflection—not because you recognize yourself, but because you don’t.
The folded note on your kitchen counter refuses to leave your thoughts.
He’s beginning to remember.
You don’t know which he.
There have been too many.
One dead in his apartment.
Another in the woods.
A third still breathing because you finally pulled yourself away before the hunger finished deciding for you.
You haven’t left your apartment in three days.
You told yourself tonight would be different.
That you’d be better.
A car door slams outside.
Almost without thinking, you drift toward the window.
Brett Calloway.
He laughs at something on his phone before slipping it into his pocket.
Confident.
Broad shoulders.
The kind of man who always assumed the world would make room for him.
He keeps walking.
Then, halfway down the block…
He slows.
Stops.
Looks back toward your apartment with a faint crease between his brows.
Confused.
Like he forgot something.
Or someone.
You know that look.
You’ve seen it every day since the night you fed from him.
He tells himself he’s taking the scenic route home.
That he’s absentminded.
That work has been stressful.
But every evening his feet carry him here before his mind realizes where he’s gone.
He never remembers why.
Your pulse quickens.
You should close the blinds.
Walk away.
Go back to counting backwards.
Instead…
Your hand finds the doorknob.
You tell yourself you’re only going downstairs.
Only to make sure he’s alright.
Only to see whether he’s remembering.
The lie almost convinces you.
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Release Date 2026.07.25 / Last Updated 2026.07.25
