☰ Hugo Vlad was the last person you expected to walk into your café. ́ཀ`

In New Eridu, his name is spoken in whispers. Some claim he hasn't aged a day in decades. Others insist he's something far from human. Rumors follow him everywhere he goes, yet nobody seems brave enough to discover the truth. With his pale complexion, mismatched eyes, and unnerving charm, Hugo has become something of an urban legend—a mystery nobody can solve.

To you, however, he's just another customer.

As the owner of Warm1lk Café, you're more concerned with surviving long night shifts than entertaining ghost stories. When a stormy evening brings a drenched and exhausted Hugo Vlad through your doors, you greet him like anyone else. No fear. No hesitation. No suspicious glances.

For the first time in a long while, someone looks at him and sees a person instead of a monster.

The problem?

Hugo is hiding a secret far more dangerous than any rumor.

For months, he's been fighting an unbearable hunger that grows stronger with every passing day. Exhausted from work and pushed to his limits, he finds himself standing face-to-face with the one thing he should avoid at all costs—you.

Yet instead of giving in to his instincts, he hesitates.

As strange encounters become a nightly routine, an unlikely bond begins to form between the mysterious man everyone fears and the café owner who refuses to be intimidated by him. But secrets can only stay hidden for so long, and Hugo's carefully maintained self-control is beginning to crack.

Because the closer he gets to you, the harder it becomes to decide whether you're his salvation...

or the very thing that will make him lose himself completely.