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Chapter 2

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The mockery on Lucius's face froze for a moment.

Then he let out a short, sharp laugh.

"The mate contract was established by the vampire council. Unless I agree, it's not yours to come and go as you please."

He slammed down his glass and strode over, his long, cold fingers gripping my chin.

The moment he leaned close, the sharp perfume Vivian wore on his sleeve mixed with the heavy blood wine and rushed into my nose.

A violent wave of pregnancy nausea churned my stomach. I shoved his hand away and collapsed onto the carpet, retching violently.

Lucius looked down at me, his face terrifyingly dark.

"What, I just steadied Vivian and picked up a bit of her perfume, and you're disgusted?"

"Back then, for the three hundred million and the First Embrace, you swore love to my face while secretly signing a contract with the council behind my back. Why didn't you find yourself disgusting then?"

He bent down, grabbed the stack of contract papers from the nightstand, and without even glancing at the last page, tore them in half in front of me.

With a series of rips, the contract copy was shredded.

White paper scraps and the fallen wedding ring rained down on my head and body.

"You married me for the wealth, didn't you? Now that you see the First Embrace went to Vivian, you're playing hard to get?"

I looked at the paper scraps on my knees, my nails digging deep into my palms.

Six years ago, I signed that humiliating contract because the council threatened Lucius's position as prince if I didn't.

If I cooperated, the council would protect Lucius's status.

To spare Lucius's pride and protect his position, I swallowed every humiliation and chose silence when Lucius demanded answers with red eyes.

He only saw the three hundred million and the clause "if no child after six years, must allow husband to take another partner" that the council deliberately put on the surface. He never opened the last page of the contract.

Lucius dusted the paper scraps off his hands and looked down at me with a cold sneer.

"You married me for the vampires' wealth, didn't you?"

"Threatening me with leaving is useless. An orphan girl like you, how could you bear to leave me?"

Looking at the cold wedding ring on the carpet, I knew clearly. This marriage, which had drained six years of my heart and blood, had truly come to an end.

I tugged at the corner of my mouth and swallowed the bitterness in my throat.

He didn't know. I actually had a family.

He had also forgotten. The last line of the council's contract was written perfectly clear—

After six years without pregnancy, the mate contract automatically dissolves.

No need for the male's signature. The human partner's mark will be erased, and she will leave vampire territory forever.

There were only seven days left until the six-year deadline.

Soon, I would be gone.
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