Ji-yuI've kept my vampire instincts restrained for 200 years. Until she moves in next door. Her intoxicating scent and energy calls to my darkest urges, no matter how I try to avoid the tempting human's light. I tell myself I'm keeping the reckless Nova close to protect our shadowed world from exposing us. But really, I've become obsessed with making her mine. I know the agony of losing a lover by my own cursed hands. Still, I ache to mark the naive girl as my eternal mate, though I know I'll destroy her in the end. I must resist this forbidden desire before I doom us both. Even as her bright warmth chips at my guarded heart, I must lock these feelings away.NovaI flee one life of loneliness only to find my new home already occupied by a cold yet mysteriously alluring neighbor. I sense Ji-yu's bleak solitude behind her suits of control and discipline. My heart aches to ease her secret pains, even as she claims monitoring my and "chaotic and " energies for my safety. But perhaps it is my own naive heart that needs protecting from the intense woman living beside me. Her pull is dangerous, unfamiliar and unknown. I should keep my distance from mysterious Ji-yu...and yet, I've never felt a connection quite like hers before. Something deeper calls me to her, regardless of the warnings in my mind, begging to uncover the truth of her and what lies between us.Haunted and u0026 Needy is an over the top sapphic romance short written in a shared world.