All Chapters of TVCS 1: The Vampire's Bite: Chapter 1 - Chapter 3

Vespera, Year of Crimson EclipseBlood. It ran like a river through the marbled halls of the Black Citadel.Queen Seraphina knelt at the edge of her throne room, her white gown soaked in red, her crown shattered beside her like splintered bone. She could barely lift her head, but her gaze held fire — the kind of fire only born immortals carried. Purebloods. True vampires."Mercy is beneath you, Luscius," she spat through blood-stained lips. "So don't pretend to offer it."The man who stood before her was not yet a legend. He was not the cold strategist the world would one day come to fear. No, not yet.He was merely Luscius Vesper, son of the King's second wife, cast in steel and shadow. The youngest general to lead the Vampire Council's army, and the executioner of his own kin.He stared down at the fallen queen — not with hatred, but with something far worse: calculation."You were warned, Seraphina," he said, voice smooth as moonlight on a blade. "The prophecy forbade the birth of

Long ago, when the Sanguine name still held power, a girl was born beneath a blood moon.They said she cried without sound, her eyes already crimson at birth.They said she carried an ancient gift, something that hadn't stirred in centuries.They said she would change everything.But prophecy was not protection. The child was hidden. Her name was buried. Her mother fled, cloaking their bloodline in silence.That child was Tatiana.And the gift?It waited.Now, after two decades of sleep, it had awakened.⸻Tatiana didn't sleep that night.She sat on the floor of her small cottage, knees pulled to her chest, staring at the ancient book as if it might whisper answers if she waited long enough.Her fingertips were stained from hours of tracing the sigil burned into the leather cover—two intertwined roses, one blooming, the other withered, wrapped in a serpent. She didn't need anyone to tell her what it meant.It was her family's crest.Her real one.The world she'd believed in—the mortal