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Chapter 2

Author: Helen
The saber nicked the side of my neck.

A single drop of blood slid down my skin.

Damian's breath visibly caught.

Blood held an instinctive allure for vampires, and mine had sustained him through three years of poison flare-ups. He knew its scent better than anyone.

But he quickly forced down the dark hunger surging in his eyes, leaving nothing but the fury of a man who had been defied.

"Evelyn, there's a limit to playing hard to get." He followed me to the door, teeth clenched. "You think anyone in Santvela would dare take in someone who's crossed a pureblood clan?"

I stopped walking but did not turn around.

"Move."

"You—"

Damian swung the saber to block my path again.

I grabbed the flat of the blade and shoved it aside with everything I had.

Metal slammed against the doorframe with a dull clang.

Damian froze.

He had probably forgotten that there were no maids in the North, and no cozy private clinic. Every day I had split firewood that had frozen solid, hauled iron crates packed with medicinal supplies, and dragged a full-grown vampire off the floor and back into the restraint chair whenever he lost control.

My strength was not something I had been born with. I had built it, one day at a time, in wind and snow and blood.

I ignored him and walked straight back to the old garage.

I hadn't left the estate yet, but it had nothing to do with not being able to leave Damian.

I was staying because the Moonfrost I had spent three years cultivating was still in the underground cellar, completing its final round of settling.

Moonfrost was a rare medicinal perfume that could calm a vampire's turbulent blood and ease silver poisoning and withdrawal. Once the formula was complete, it would be enough to open a blood perfume clinic that was truly my own in Santvela.

The perfume wasn't ready yet. I couldn't leave.

Behind me, Cecilia wept with the delicate air of someone deeply wronged.

"Damian, this is all my fault. I shouldn't have come back, and I shouldn't have given Evelyn the wrong idea. She must still love you. I can leave..."

"You're not going anywhere." Damian pulled her into his arms, but his gaze reached past her and fixed on my retreating back. "Let her go. Without Blackwood protection, she can't even get through the gates of the Night Market. Give it three days. She'll come crawling back."

Cold wind swept through the corridor.

I walked on, steady as ever.

Crawl back to him?

Damian thought far too highly of himself.

He had once taken a hunter's bullet for me in the North, and that was why I had been willing to stay by his side for three years, willing to repay that debt with my blood and my life.

Now he had taken back his trust and his respect with his own hands.

So I would take back everything I had given him.
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    The snow fell all through the night.After that, news of Damian and Cecilia rarely reached me.I heard that the Night Council's investigation into the blood bank poisoning uncovered evidence that the Blackwood legion had once unlawfully retained hunter weapons, and Damian, as its former commander, bore responsibility. Several clan properties were seized. He was stripped of his honorary seat and exiled to a silver-mine detention facility in the far north, under lifelong supervision.There were no soldiers for him to command there, and no one who bowed to his bloodline.His legs would never recover. He would spend the rest of his life relying on a wheelchair and painkillers.Cecilia, meanwhile, bought adulterated painkillers at the Night Market.The money she had gotten for the Moonfrost orchid was quickly swindled away by underground dealers. On the last rainy night of a Silverfrost flare-up, she bit through her own tongue in a cheap motel room and bled to death.They had both once beli

  • Vampire Husband Chose My Sister, I Left   Chapter 15

    The active serum made from my blood was a success.The first batch of Crimson Purge perfume reached the quarantine hospitals within twelve hours.The perfume mist first slowed the vampires' runaway healing, and then the injected serum neutralized the silver deposits. Fevers in critical patients began to break, and the red rashes across their skin gradually faded.Three days later, the daily death count dropped to zero.One week later, the public blood bank completed its decontamination, and Santvela lifted the lockdown.Tens of thousands of humans and vampires survived.The medical bureau publicly credited Vesper's treatment protocol, and the Night Council passed an emergency resolution designating my blood perfume therapy as the city's standard response to silver-toxin events.The night of the commendation, I stood in the central hall of the Night Council in a deep red gown.The Speaker conferred on me the lifetime title of Chief Blood Healer of Santvela and granted Vesper an entire m

  • Vampire Husband Chose My Sister, I Left   Chapter 14

    Sure enough, less than half a day later, a Blackwood lightproof car pulled up outside Vesper.Damian didn't appear. He sent his aide with a temperature-controlled silver case and a handwritten letter.The handwriting was uneven, the ink smeared in places by water."Evelyn, the Moonfrost orchid is in the case. I know you need it to save the city."I'm no longer asking you to forgive me, and I'm not asking you to fix my legs. I've already lost the legion, the clan's standing, and the use of my legs."I just want to see you one more time. Just let me know that you haven't completely forgotten me."I read the letter without a trace of expression.Then, in front of his aide, I opened the temperature-controlled case.Inside were cold packs to keep the temperature down and a single empty glass plant cloche.No Moonfrost orchid.The aide's face went white.I pushed the empty case back."Go tell Damian not to test me with an empty box. If he wants to lure me out to see him, he should find a les

  • Vampire Husband Chose My Sister, I Left   Chapter 13

    At the depth of winter, a strange blood plague erupted across Santvela.At first, only vampires showed symptoms.After drinking blood distributed by the city's blood bank, they would spike a high fever, lose control, develop a red web-like rash across their skin, and finally cough up black blood in extreme pain. Soon after, some of the humans who handled blood bank transport and sanitation began exhibiting the same symptoms.The medical bureau couldn't identify the pathogen for days on end, and the city tipped toward panic.The Night Council sealed off three districts and suspended all public blood distribution. Without a steady supply, young vampires lost control to hunger, and attacks surged.The surface world knew only that an unidentified epidemic had broken out. News broadcasts ran on a constant loop, and crowds pressed against hospital entrances waiting to be tested.Lucien came to Vesper's quarantine laboratory himself.I had isolated fine silver-red sediment from a patient's bl

  • Vampire Husband Chose My Sister, I Left   Chapter 12

    That rain extinguished the last of Damian's hope.Both his legs were fully paralyzed.After a medical evaluation, the Night Council determined that he was no longer fit to lead the Northern Night Watch. They revoked his military command and left him only with an honorary seat in the Blackwood clan.Once the authority was gone, the people who had gathered around him scattered.And Cecilia, cast out of the estate, fared worse by the day.The Silverfrost powder flared constantly, and she needed heavy doses of painkillers to get through each night. The Vesters, unwilling to antagonize the Blackwoods, refused to take her back, so she checked into the cheapest motel near the Night Market.She burned through her money fast.Desperate, she dragged her aching body to the back door of the Blackwood estate and begged Damian, in tears, to take her in."Damian, it's Cecilia. You've been saying since we were children that you'd protect me. Open the door. Let me in. I'm in so much pain I could die."

  • Vampire Husband Chose My Sister, I Left   Chapter 11

    Ten days later, a downpour hit Santvela.Cold rain laced with slivers of ice hammered the glass, and the street lamps blurred into smears of light behind curtains of water.Vesper had closed for the evening.I was in the back laboratory mixing a new pain-relief perfume when the guard hurried in."Dr. Vester, Damian Blackwood is outside. He's refusing to leave."I didn't look up."Have the guards escort him away.""They can't." The guard's expression was odd. "He didn't come by car. He doesn't have any of his men with him."My hands went still."He crawled here."I pulled on a coat and walked to the second-floor window, cracking it open.In the curtain of rain, Damian lay soaked and wretched on the steps below.Both his legs had lost all sensation. He could no longer stand. To get around the vehicle exclusion zone the Night Council had set up, he had dragged himself the length of the street all the way to Vesper's door.Mud caked the military uniform he had once worn with such pride, an

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