Vic is gifted. Each gifted person is born with a rare and unique power that can be harmful, deadly even—especially when they don’t know how to control it. Vic, though, knows how to control it well. But in a way, it controls him. Every week, he can't help but use his gift to kill a random stranger he picks up from a bar. He’s never met another gifted person in Paris before. That is, until he meets Beau.

This short story is a prequel to the Gifted series. The story is a bit dark but isn't horror or thriller. It's more so... a boy meets boy story, except one of the boys isn't too keen on continuing to meet the other boy but meets him because the other boy gives him easy victims. It has an LGBT undertone, but no explicit romance.

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"Lover of Death"

by Lin Augustine