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My Vampire Husband Thought I Was Jealous, but I Was Dying

My Vampire Husband Thought I Was Jealous, but I Was Dying

Short Story · Vampire
By:  LevinneCompleted
Language: English
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Tragic Love

Melodramatic

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Vampire

Girl Power

Bias

Cheating

Winning Back the Wife

Face Slapping

I was the daughter of a human noble house, and I married the man I'd fallen for at first sight: Adrian, heir to the vampire Prince. Adrian was unfailingly gentle with me. Every wedding anniversary, jewelry arrived at my door. Everyone said I was the luckiest woman alive. What they didn't know was that on our wedding night, Adrian told me not to let myself hope for anything from him. The anniversary gifts were chosen by his assistant. He never once celebrated with me. In ten years of marriage, Adrian went through more lovers than I could count. Every time, I was the one who wrote the check and dismissed the women he'd grown tired of. This time, I cleaned up after him as usual. That night, he wrapped his arms around me from behind, buried his face in my shoulder, and murmured his praise. “Elena, I always knew you were the sensible one.” I gave a faint smile and slipped out of his arms. “I can do you one last favor.” “Let's get a divorce.” The gentle smile stayed on his lips. Only his eyes went cold for the space of a breath. “Don't be like this. I'll spend more time with you these next few days.” When I turned my face away, Adrian assumed I was slipping back into my old self. I would weep, demanding to know why he couldn't even try to love me. But he didn't know. This time was different. I was dying, and soon I'd be leaving him for good.

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Javad
Javad
Beautiful and hauntingly sad.
2026-07-21 01:09:31
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Elizabeth
Elizabeth
It’s a great short story. I enjoyed the writing and details.
2026-08-03 09:55:21
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13 Chapters
Chapter 1
Elena's POVThe smile didn't leave Adrian's lips.His arm around me didn't even loosen right away.That composed, gentle ease was something I'd watched for ten years.I used to tell myself he was simply cold by nature, just bad at showing affection.It was only now that I finally admitted the truth.No matter how good, how accommodating I was, I could never make a man with no heart love me.“Don't be like this.”Adrian's voice was low, a trace of weariness in it.“I'll spend some real time with you these next few days.”His smile turned perfunctory, as if those words alone were enough.In the past, they always had been.All it took was one more night of his company, one more time he held my hand at a dinner, one more moment he called me his wife in front of those other women, and a little flicker of hope I had no business feeling would come back to life.I used to be far too easy to win over.So he never felt he needed to take me seriously.I looked down at the hand clasped at my waist
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Chapter 2
Elena's POVWhen Adrian leaned in close, his gaze settled on my face.These past few days I'd been wearing heavy perfume.The medication the doctor gave me masked the strange scent in my blood, too.I put on makeup every day, painting my lips a little redder than usual.Adrian didn't notice.That wasn't surprising, really.He rarely looked at me this closely.Even when he did come home now and then, he only pulled me into a careless embrace when he needed me to do something for him.I used to live for those brief embraces.Looking back now, all I felt was how pathetic it had been.“You haven't looked well lately.”He changed the subject, ignoring what I'd said before.I lowered my eyes. “I'm probably just tired.”“Then rest for a few days.”He said it so easily, just like always, deciding on his own where our argument would end.“And don't go throwing around words like divorce so casually from now on.”I looked at him, that handsome, gentle face exactly as it had been the day we met.T
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Chapter 3
Elena's POVAdrian stared at me, and in the dark, those blood-red eyes finally filled with anger.I braced myself against the windowsill to stay on my feet, unwilling to let him see even a trace of how unsteady I was.I kept the smile on my face as best I could, my gaze steady on the man I'd loved for ten years.The wind drifted in through the window, carrying a damp chill.A dull pressure ached in my chest; I'd said too much, and it had drained most of my strength.But I couldn't faint, couldn't let a single crack show.I didn't want him to know I was sick.Still less did I want to spend the last of my time trading my illness for his pity.That would be too humiliating.I'd already lost badly enough in this marriage.The least I wanted was to leave with some dignity.Adrian lifted his gaze from the divorce papers back to my face.“Have you really thought this through?”His voice was cold.“A divorce does nothing for your reputation.”I nodded, indifferent.He spoke more slowly now, as
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Chapter 4
Elena's POVThe day of the banquet, the relentless stabbing in my chest woke me early.I lay in bed a long while, recovering, before I could force myself upright.The curtains were still drawn, the room dim.The woman in the mirror was pale, her lips so colorless they were almost invisible.I stared at myself for a moment, suddenly unmoored.Ten years ago, before my first banquet as Adrian's wife, I'd sat in front of this same mirror for a long time.Back then my eyes had been bright, full of anticipation.I kept thinking that if I were just a little lovelier, a little more poised, if I tried a little harder to please him, Adrian might spare me a second glance.And I did learn a great deal in the years after.I learned how to smile, how to deflect the ill-meant probing aimed at him.I also learned how to swallow my anger and heartbreak when he came home carrying another woman's scent, and to set everything right for him.And still he never came to love me.A soft knock came at the door
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Chapter 5
Elena's POVThe banquet hall blazed with light.As we stepped out of the car, every guest's eyes turned toward us.Adrian finally took his place at my side again.He knew well enough that he couldn't lose face in front of others.I slipped my arm through his without effort.He didn't refuse.Clara followed half a step behind us.More than a few people, seeing her, smiled knowingly.I heard someone murmur:“Isn't that Lord Adrian's new assistant?”“Why would he bring her along?”“Lord Adrian's wife really is gracious, isn't she?”I walked in, smiling.They didn't know I no longer had the strength to care.The lights in the hall were too bright.The strings too loud.Every smiling face wavered before my eyes.I stood beside Adrian, listening to him talk with the Council members.When a smile was called for, I smiled.When a nod was called for, I nodded.Ten years had made me fluent in the whole routine.Only today, after standing so long, my legs had gone weak.I discreetly braced myself
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Chapter 6
Elena's POVThe moment the silver bullet grazed my arm, I caught the smell of scorched flesh.My gown was torn open.Blood welled quickly from the wound and ran down my arm, dripping.The deep red of my skirt was already vivid enough, yet where the blood fell it bloomed into a small patch of something darker.Screams rose all across the hall.The guards finally rushed in.The hunter was pinned to the floor within moments, and the alarm passed.Everyone was backing away. Only I stood in front of Adrian, my arm aching to the point of numbness.I'd thought I had already let him go.But the moment I saw that silver bullet streaking toward him, I couldn't rein in my own instinct.Ten years.Some habits, it turned out, were truly frightening.Even after I'd decided to let him go, my first reaction was still to protect him.Adrian stood behind me.He wasn't hurt.That bullet might never have reached him at all.He was the vampire Prince's heir, far faster than any human.And still I'd thrown
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Chapter 7
Elena's POVThe banquet ended earlier than anyone expected.The guests left one by one, and the guards cleared away the hunter's body and his weapons.By the time the hall fell quiet again, a faint stain of blood still marked the carpet.I couldn't tell whether it was his or mine.Standing by the door, I suddenly felt my whole body go terribly light.It was as if I might collapse in the next breath and never rise again.On the way back, Adrian and I rode in the same car. The assistant had slipped away at some point.No one spoke.The lights beyond the window slid past, one after another.I leaned back against the seat and did my best to keep my injured arm hidden.The wound itself didn't really hurt anymore.What hurt more was my chest.I knew the medicine was wearing off.The moment we reached the estate, I had to leave at once.I couldn't put it off any longer.Adrian sat beside me.His profile stayed in shadow, his expression impossible to read.After a long while, he spoke suddenly
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Chapter 8
Elena's POVAfter leaving the Prince's estate, I sat at the station the whole night through.The wound on my arm had mostly stopped bleeding.Only the place where the silver had grazed me still burned faintly.I pulled my shawl tight and counted the cash I had on me.It wasn't much, but for someone about to die, it was enough.In the end, I spent what I had on the cheapest ticket to the sea.The clerk asked, “Will you be needing a return ticket, ma'am?”I paused.Then I shook my head.“One way is enough.”The truth was, I'd wanted to go to the sea for a long time.Before the engagement, Adrian had been endlessly tender with me, telling me to get ready in advance for our honeymoon.After the wedding I wavered for ages before settling on a little seaside town in the south of the human world.There was a long white beach there.A blue sea.And a gallery right at the water's edge.Many of the artists I loved had been born there, and I'd always wanted to see it.Back then I'd tucked the bro
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Chapter 9
Adrian's POVThe first night after Elena left, I didn't go to Clara.I didn't go to the Council to deal with business either.I sat in the great hall of the estate and listened to the wind outside the windows the whole night through.In the past, when Elena was home, I rarely came back.I'd always thought the place was too quiet.And always thought there was something too stubborn in the way she looked at me.She was always waiting for me.In the dining room, outside the study, in the bedroom.Sometimes I came back very late and her eyes were already heavy with sleep, yet she'd still lift her head the moment she heard my footsteps.“Adrian, you're back.”Back then I only nodded.I assumed she would always be there.So I never thought there was anything particular about those words.But now she was gone.The whole estate had suddenly become empty enough to set me on edge.The steward asked if I wanted the car brought round.I nodded, thinking I did still have business to attend to.Yet
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Chapter 10
Adrian's POVIt was already dusk the next day when the test results came back.The steward stood in the study, his face grim.I took the report, and my fingers froze after only a few lines.That half a pill was no ordinary painkiller.It was a powerful scent suppressant.The kind made to mask the smell of failing blood, diseased organs, and the abnormal odor a human gives off in the late stages of a terminal illness.Taken in excess over a long time, it would only hasten the body's collapse.I stared at those few lines.For a long while I said nothing.The steward's voice was so low it was nearly inaudible.“Lord Adrian, Madam may have been ill for a long time.”Ill for a long time.As those words landed, the air in the study seemed to turn cold.But I was a vampire.I wasn't supposed to feel the cold.“What do you mean?”I heard my own voice.Low, and unfamiliar.The steward bowed his head.“I had it looked into.”“Madam had been to a human hospital.”“The diagnosis was bloodline fail
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