The Guily Ones // 2 // Eric NorthmanxOC
"If you touch me again," Ashley warned, her voice low, "I swear I'll-"
"You'll what?" Eric interrupted, stepping closer.
She tilted her chin up, glaring. "Stake you."
He smiled, all sharp teeth and temptation. "Mmm. Then I hope you miss... I'd hate for this to end too soon."
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She came to kill him. She didn't expect to want him.
When Ash's boyfriend is murdered in New York by a dangerously handsome stranger, revenge becomes her only reason to breathe.
Her hunt leads to one name: Eric Northman. A thousand-year-old vampire. Sheriff of Area 5. And exactly the kind of man who smiles when you threaten him.
Moving to the small town of Bon Temps puts her right in his orbit, close enough to strike, plotting her revenge from afar... right? Only the moment the tall, infuriating Viking walks into Merlotte's, he doesn't just notice her... he's intrigued. And worse - so is she.
The more fate pushes them together, the harder it becomes to remember which is more dangerous: her growing attraction to him or the dark secrets awakening inside her that could destroy them both.
Vampires. Secrets. A revenge plot tangled in desire.
When the truth comes out, only one question becomes increasingly hard to distinguish.
Who are The Guilty Ones?
#1 Northman (09.08.2025)
