Prologue (Unedited)

He had spent the past four centuries in solitude, craving something he had never had a name for. But now he knew what he had been missing; a mate. He could not explain why it was this girl who had woken this instinct. He did not even know her name. The urge to possess her had struck without warning the moment he'd caught her scent on the fierce wind. Now it was too late; she would pay with her humanity for his mistake.