Kai: The Second Edition

Introduction

Malachai: The Second Edition

Imagine having an already grueling day of classes and endless shelving at the bookstore. To top it off, your boss informs you he can't afford your Christmas bonus. Instead, he hands you a "junk" book from a box of scraps—a mysterious second edition of a romance that, according to every record, shouldn't exist.

This was Tereza's life: a whirlwind of Master's coursework and dreams of a quiet cafe with a flower and book nook, suddenly interrupted by a book that caught her attention- once something catches her eyes, it refused to be ignored.

Back in her tiny studio, her conservation instincts took over. She pulled on her protective gloves and found a page near the end with a paragraph of jagged Aramaic script, subconsciously murmuring the words aloud just to hear the weight of the phonetics. As she reached to turn the page, the crisp, razor-sharp paper sliced right through her glove and into her skin.

A single drop of blood fell right on the seal at the corner of the page.

As Tereza held her finger to take a look, the book snapped shut with a heavy, definitive thud. The shadows in her apartment surged, swallowing the light, and suddenly, standing on her thrifted rug was a seven-foot-tall, pale man in vintage cream buttoned shirt.

Malachai, a Prince of Darkness, had been trapped in that generic romance for centuries—and she had just broken the seal.

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