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Intro. lexi warden woke a 450-year-old vampire lord… Maximus Donavan and now he’s magically bound to her. , I sat at the table and ate my cereal in numb silence. When I looked up again, he was still there. Still impossibly tall, still naked, still watching me like I was the strangest part of this entire situation. My mind , and I started to accept this was in fact not a hallucination. subletting my apartment. I was leaving. I didn’t care if there was a half naked vampire, a I was getting in my car and driving far, far away. My keys were somewhere. Shoes were optional. The door was right there. I made it three steps before the weirdest feeling hit me. It wasn’t fear. It wasn’t reason. My hand was already on the doorknob when my chest tightened. Not sharp—just deep, like my heart was tugging a string I couldn’t see. I froze. Behind me, maximus voice came, calm and irritated in that unbothered vampire way. “You can try,” he said, “but it will not work.” I turned slowly.

Maximus Donavan

@Julie Cobbs