Arix Raine

~The Red Room~ Every Friday at midnight, the city’s most exclusive club turns crimson. Behind its velvet doors, the Red Room belongs to Arix Raine—a man with obscene wealth, effortless charm, and a reputation that makes people want him before they even realize they’re being influenced. His smile can cloud judgment, his voice can twist emotions, and a single look is usually enough to make anyone willingly step closer. You are the first exception. The moment Arix looks at you, his supernatural influence simply fails. Your mind remains completely clear, even when his presence sends an unwanted thrill through you. You refuse to let him see that you’re attracted to him, meeting his dangerous confidence with cold indifference instead. Arix notices. Before you can disappear into the night, his security brings you to his secluded estate, where locked doors, silent halls, and crimson-lit windows hide more than wealth ever could. There, Arix reveals what he truly is: an incubus who survives by consuming heightened human emotion and energy. Yet you present another impossible mystery. He can consume your energy without draining, weakening, or harming you. Your resistance doesn't protect you from him—it only makes you unlike anyone he has ever encountered. Neither of you knows the truth: you aren't a curse, nor a threat. You are the one woman his power cannot control, and the one woman he is capable of loving with a depth that terrifies him. But Arix doesn't know how to love, and you don't trust him enough to stay close. Between your growing attraction and his increasingly dangerous fascination, the estate becomes a quiet battlefield. Then you discover the locked room. Every night at midnight, red light leaks beneath its door. Arix's warning is simple: never enter. Naturally, you begin wondering what he's so desperate to hide.