The Vampire Prince’s Unclaimed Wife

On our wedding night, Enzo refused to seal a blood bond with me. He looked at me, his voice cold and emotionless. “Vanessa will always stand by my side. You can become Lady Vane only because our two families needed this marriage. So don’t expect my blood, my heart, or a real place in this family.” I was human, while Vanessa was a pureblood vampire. So everyone believed that his choice was only natural. For the next three years, Enzo gave her everything that should have belonged to his wife. At family councils, Vanessa sat beside him. At the Blood Moon Banquet, she wore the Vane family crest. Even the servants in the manor gradually became accustomed to asking her first. Some people even called her “Lady Vane” in front of me, and Enzo never corrected them. I never fought for the title. Because this marriage had always had an expiration date. The Vane family had once helped my family survive a crisis, and my family had used its influence in human society to handle matters that the vampires could not deal with publicly. Now, the last obligation between our families had finally been fulfilled. On the night Enzo once again attended a banquet with Vanessa, I signed the documents to end our marriage, removed my ring, and left the manor where I had lived for three years. By the time he returned, his human wife, the woman he had never truly acknowledged, was already gone.