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After My Vampire Fiancé Chose My Stepsister, I Married the Monster Everyone Feared

After My Vampire Fiancé Chose My Stepsister, I Married the Monster Everyone Feared

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作家:  Levinne完了
言語: English
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概要

Tragic Love

Plot Twists

Melodramatic

Vampire

Mistress

Ruthless

Substitute Bride

Marriage

Cheating

I was born a half-blood vampire, the daughter of a vampire father and a human mother. I inherited a vampire's power, yet I could walk in sunlight without harm. On the day it happened, my beloved fiancé Adrian had been gravely wounded by hunters and lay collapsed in the burning light. I was the one who ran to him, and I was the one who took the bullet. But when he came to, he was certain the person who'd saved him was my stepsister, Sophia — because her arm bore the mark of a sunlight burn. I tried to explain. I wept and begged him to believe me. Adrian only looked at me with cold, distant eyes. "Elena, stop trying to steal Sophia's credit." Sophia was cherished in his hands, while I was trampled repeatedly. Adrian sealed my bloodline power, stripping me from half-blood to nothing. Our engagement was annulled, and he watched, cold and unmoved, as I was sent in Sophia's place to marry the noble vampire everyone whispered about: that ancient, monstrous lord. Then came the day of his and Sophia's betrothal ceremony. The vampire hunters struck again. Stripped of my power, I threw myself in front of a young girl to shield her. Sophia, meanwhile, abandoned Adrian's side and fled behind the elders. Only then did Adrian understand: the one who had saved him in the sunlight had always been me. He went mad with it. He blocked my carriage, desperate to stop me from leaving, from marrying another man. But I reached out and took another man's hand. "Adrian," I said. "I don't love you anymore."

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Chapter 1
Elena's POVI had been looking forward to this engagement party for years.After my mother died, my stepmother used the instability of my half-blood lineage as an excuse to confine me to the house. Ten full years without a single public appearance, without a single glimpse of Adrian. I told myself today would finally be different. Today I would leave that cold, suffocating attic and stand before my fiancé again.But the moment I stepped into the banquet hall, I understood: tonight's celebration was not about me.Adrian stood at the center of the room, his black evening coat sharpening the severe lines of his face. His crimson eyes, the natural mark of vampire nobility, carried a pressure that was almost physical. Sophia stood at his side with her hand tucked into the crook of his arm. Her pale gold gown glowing glimmered, and she looked like a princess blessed by the spotlights. They spoke softly together, and Adrian occasionally glanced down at her with a patience he rarely showed any
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Chapter 2
Elena's POVMy words fell into silence, and for one suspended moment the entire hall held its breath.Then my stepmother laughed. It was a sharp, deliberate sound."Elena," she said, "do you have any idea what you're saying?" She positioned herself beside Sophia with one hand raised protectively, as though I were a monster about to lash out. "Your power has been unstable for years. You haven't left this house. You couldn't possibly have saved Lord Adrian."Murmurs rippled through the crowd. "That's right, hasn't Miss Elena been kept at home all this time?" "I heard her abilities spiraled out of control more than once." "Someone like that saving Lord Adrian? Impossible."My fingertips went cold.My stepmother turned to address the room, her voice carefully shaped into something warm and certain. "The one who saved Lord Adrian that day was Sophia. She used her barrier to deflect the silver bullets and shielded him with her own body. Sophia's arm still carries a scar from that day, a woun
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Chapter 3
Elena's POVI was not sure how I made it back to the attic.The cuts on my knees were still seeping, and my palms burned. After years of small wounds and larger ones, even my half-blood resilience wasn't much to speak of. My healing had been slower than any ordinary vampire's for a long time, and the silver bullet wounds in my arm had never fully sealed, aching with a low, constant dullness. But none of that came close to the way Adrian had looked at me in that hall: cold, contemptuous, barely bothering to hide his irritation, as though every memory we'd shared was a lie. Everything I had kept myself alive on, these past years, collapsed at once.The attic door creaked open and the smell of damp and neglect hit me first. This was where I had lived for years: narrow, cold, half the windows nailed shut.They hadn't been entirely wrong. My half-blood power was genuinely difficult to control when I was young; when my emotions ran high I couldn't always contain it. I would grip my own ar
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Chapter 4
Elena's POVMy hand came down, and Sophia did not flinch. The crack split the silence in the attic. Sophia's face swung to the side, a red mark blooming across her cheek.I hadn't even pulled my hand back when the attic door slammed open. Adrian stood in the doorway with several of his guards behind him, and cold air swept in from the corridor and locked around me.I understood then. She had planned for this, too.Sophia brought her hand to her cheek and the tears came instantly. "Sister. Why would you do this to me?"I went still, and only then did I see it clearly. She hadn't said those things to gloat. She'd said them to make me snap. She needed Adrian to see me strike her with his own eyes.Adrian's expression went terrifying. He walked in, step by steady step. "Elena. When are you going to stop?""Sophia admitted it," I said. "She admitted right now that the person who saved you wasn't her."Sophia shook her head, fresh tears falling. "I never said that." She looked up at Adrian,
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Chapter 5
Elena's POVMy heart sank sharply."No.""No." Adrian looked at his guards. "Take her."I spun and ran, but they caught me before I made it two steps. My wounds were still raw, and the moment they grabbed my arm the pain blazed white and I nearly buckled. If I hadn't already been weakened from shielding Adrian from those hunters, none of them would have been able to hold me.Sophia stood in the doorway with her satisfaction well-hidden behind soft, frightened eyes. I couldn't stop myself. "Sophia. You'll face what's coming for this." She didn't answer. She only shrank behind Adrian, as though the very thought of me frightened her.They dragged me out of the attic, down through the house and back into the banquet hall. Some of the guests hadn't left yet, and everyone watched as I was hauled in. My father stood at the front of the room with a thunderous expression, berating me for shaming the entire family. My stepmother had her arm around Sophia with a cold satisfaction on her fa
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Chapter 6
Elena's POVMy father didn't send me to Lucien right away. He said: wait until Sophia and Adrian's engagement ceremony is done, then she goes.I understood. Sophia had taken my fiancé, taken the truth of what I'd done, and she wanted me to watch her receive everything she'd stolen. That was the victory she needed. From the moment she first arrived in this house — the secret daughter, kept outside the walls while I was the Valerie family's true heir — she had decided to claim my life piece by piece.The next morning, servants dressed me in a pale gray gown and walked me to a corner of the hall to observe. The pain from the sealing still lived in the crevices of my bones, and the wounds on my arm were wrapped loosely, without care. Every time I closed my eyes I heard the coffin lid falling, heard myself crying in that dark until I had no voice left, heard Adrian through the wood telling me to stop performing.The hall was redone with new flowers and new ribbons, the chaos scrubbed awa
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Chapter 7
Elena's POVHe was Lucien — and he was nothing like the stories.He looked down at me. His gaze moved from the child in my arms to my torn sleeve, then to my face. "You have no bloodline power left," he said, "and you still ran in front of a gun?" His voice was quiet and unhurried, even tinged with a hint of gentleness, without a word of blame in it. I opened my mouth and couldn't find anything to say. The little girl was still shaking against me, and I put a hand on her back."She's young," I said. "I couldn't watch her die."Lucien looked at me for a moment, and something moved in his expression: brief and interested. "Remarkable. My future wife."Across the hall, Adrian had gone still. I could see it registering — the way I'd thrown myself in front of that girl, the instinct of it, the lack of hesitation. It must have reminded him of that day: I had done the same thing then, half-terrified with no guarantee it would work, and still put myself between him and the bullets.He spun
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Chapter 8
Adrian's POVThe carriage was gone, and I stood there for a long time.Elena's last words were still in the air."Adrian. I don't love you anymore." She said it so quietly. No anger, no tears, no spite — as though she had simply removed me from the list of things that mattered to her.My shoulder was bleeding through, silver burns blackening where the bullet had grazed me, deep and painful. I didn't notice. All I could think about was that she hadn't looked at me, not once. She'd said those words from behind the cloth, as though I wasn't worth the effort of facing.Elena wasn't like that. She never used to be.When we were young, she would trail after me quietly, and when they mocked her for being a half-blood she would stand in the garden with burning eyes, on the verge of tears, refusing to bow her head. When I gave her the handkerchief, she looked up at me with eyes that were wet and somehow luminous at the same time.After that, years passed and I didn't see her. Sophia told me
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Chapter 9
Adrian's POVI released Sophia and walked toward the door. She called after me, crying. "Where are you going? Adrian, we just got betrothed. You promised you'd marry me." I stopped. "That was before I knew you'd been lying to me." The crying stopped. I didn't look back.My guard fell into step beside me. "Where to, sir?" "Elena's room."When I reached the Valerie family's old manor, Elena's father and stepmother had already heard we were coming. Her father met me at the entrance, visibly unsettled. "Adrian, sir — Sophia was just frightened tonight, she has nothing but loyalty for you—" "And Elena?" I said. He went stiff. Her stepmother moved in quickly with a strained smile, saying Elena had never been easy to manage, that after everything tonight I shouldn't let her behavior reflect poorly on the family. I left them talking and went upstairs.The higher I climbed, the heavier the smell of damp became. The corridor narrowed, the windows were half-blocked with boards, and almo
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Chapter 10
Adrian's POVI stood outside Lucien's walls until dawn. The northern wind had worked at the silver burn on my shoulder the whole night, and the wound hadn't sealed. I barely noticed.The guard's message was louder than the pain: it no longer matters.When the light began to come up pale over the trees, my guard came close. "Sir. The Elder Council has sent for you."I looked down at the handkerchief in my palm. It had been in Elena's keeping for years, and she had kept it tucked away and touched it until the edges went soft. I had thrown it in the dust. I put it inside my coat and closed my eyes. "Tell them I'll be late. We're going home first."Sophia had been secured when I arrived back. She was sitting in a closed room, pale-faced and red-eyed. When I came in she stood at once. "Adrian. You finally came to see me." I didn't move closer. I dropped the gathered testimonies on the table between us."Still planning to deceive me, Sophia?"She looked down, and her face changed. The s
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