All Chapters of My Vampire Fiancé Left Me at the Altar 33 Times: Chapter 1 - Chapter 9

9 Chapters

Chapter 1

Silver dust from an enemy clan's attack burned in my veins, but I refused the vial from my aide, Heidi.This was my thirty-third blood-bonding ceremony with Caius. My blood had to be pure for the ritual.But I waited at the altar for three hours. He never came.“My lady…” Heidi’s voice trembled. “Caius is still at the graveyard. The fledgling… Evangeline. She says she’s scared of the thunder and won’t let him leave.”Thunder?There wasn’t a single cloud in the sky tonight.I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and swallowed the coppery taste of blood rising in my throat.I reached for him through our communing stone.Once. Twice… On the tenth try, he picked up.“Larissa, what is it now?” His voice crackled through the connection, laced with impatience, not a hint of apology. “Evangeline almost attacked a human! You know how fragile fledglings are. She’s my responsibility.”“The ceremony starts in ten minutes.” My voice was terrifyingly calm, even as my hands began to spasm.“I’m on my

Chapter 2

The reply from my family’s Grand Elder was shockingly fast:“Your Highness, you have finally come to your senses. That half-blood mongrel isn’t worthy of breathing your name. The entire clan awaits your return.”A bitter, self-mocking smile touched my lips.For a man they called a “half-blood mongrel,” I’d hidden my identity as the firstborn of the Progenitor, Princess Devereux, playing the part of a nobody in this second-rate city for a century.My reward? A thirty-third public humiliation.When I returned to the gothic mansion, Heidi rushed to meet me, her face etched with worry. “My lady, you look so pale…”“It’s nothing.” I walked straight to the study. “Go sort through my papers. I’m resigning from all my council duties.”In the study, the Coven’s scrying pool pulsed with a blinding light.It was Evangeline again.She seemed determined to make sure I saw her victory.In the reflection, she was preening, running her fingers through her messy hair. Glistening beads of sweat clung to

Chapter 3

“Here are the finalized illusion-wards for the Western Coven. I’m done. They’re yours now.”The next day, I finished my last task for the council and tossed the scroll to Orion.He was the Captain of the Council Guard and the only one I’d call a friend over the last hundred years.Orion caught it, his brow furrowed. “Are you serious? That position was your…”He trailed off as a commotion started on the other side of the hall.Caius was standing there, holding a black velvet box.He opened it. Inside lay a “Shadow Amulet,” glowing with a faint purple light.It was an incredibly rare defensive artifact, allowing the wearer to instantly melt into the shadows when in danger.Even senior elders didn't all have one.And now, he was fastening it around Evangeline’s neck.“Oh, Caius!” Evangeline gasped dramatically, her fingertips tracing the amulet. “This is too much… I don’t deserve it.”“Anything for your safety is worth it,” Caius said, his voice thick with affection.Evangeline turned her

Chapter 4

Caius’s POV“Caius, I still feel so awful… Stay with me tonight, please?”Evangeline draped herself over me, her warm breath ghosted across my ear. Her voice was pure syrup, laced with a desperate need.Normally, that kind of naked dependency would have fed the ego of the man—the sire—who made her.I would have looked at that pitiful look on her face and felt like her one and only savior.But now, seeing the hunger she couldn’t hide in her eyes, Larissa’s last words in this room echoed in my head.“I don’t drink someone else’s slop.”Those eyes that always looked at me with such warmth were flat. Empty.For some reason, a wave of revulsion hit me.“Enough.”I shoved her away. Harder than I meant to.Evangeline tumbled onto the sofa, staring at me in disbelief. Her eyes instantly filled with tears. “Caius? You…”Before I could say anything, my heart stopped.A brutal, decisive force tore through my very soul without warning.It felt like someone had reached into my spirit and ripped out

Chapter 5

Caius’s POV“Where is the Guard? Seal every exit out of Chicago! Now!”I strode into the Council Hall, my power as the Adjudicator Lord making the chandeliers flicker violently.A few Elders paused their conversation, their expressions bored.“Calm yourself, Lord Caius,” Elder Eldred said, setting down a scroll. His tone was utterly bored. “A city-wide lockdown… for a common-blooded woman? It is beneath your station.”“She’s missing!” I snarled, fighting back the searing pain from the backlash. “She is my fiancée. An attack on her is an attack on me!”“Missing?” another Elder, a woman, chuckled. “She severed all her connections half an hour ago. She left on her own.”She waved a dismissive hand. “It’s for the best. Caius, forgive my frankness, but her common bloodline has always been a blemish on your name. Now that she has finally shown some sense, you can choose a consort worthy of the Lord Adjudicator.”They were so casual, so arrogant it was suffocating.To the Council, Larissa’s d

Chapter 6

Larissa’s POVNew Orleans at midnight was shrouded in a bloody mist.When my private jet broke through the clouds and landed on the Devereux family estate, two rows of ethereal blue magic torches were already lit on either side of the airstrip.“Welcome home, Your Highness.”Thirty members of the Royal Guard knelt on one knee in perfect unison.Their movements were so synchronized that even the capes behind them billowed at the exact same angle.This long-forgotten power and reverence made my own blood sing in response.“Rise.”I gave a slight lift of my hand. My voice was calm, but it held the unquestionable authority of a ruler.The motorcade sped through the night, passing through layers of magical barriers powerful enough to shred any intruder, finally stopping before the gates of Devereux Castle.The massive gates swung open. My father and mother were already waiting.“My darling girl, you’ve gotten so thin.” Mother rushed forward to embrace me, her fingertips gently stroking my c

Chapter 7

Larissa’s POVCaius froze, his hands holding the box suspended in mid-air.“What… did you say?”“I said,” I repeated, “that this is worthless to me.”I pinched the necklace between two fingers, disgusted by the scent of his life force clinging to it.A ripple of contemptuous laughter went through my kinsmen, mocking his inferior blood.“Once, because I loved you, I treasured even the cheap glass beads you bought from a street stall. I wore them day and night.”I looked at him, my voice flat. “But now that I don’t love you, your heart’s blood is just a foul-smelling piece of scrap.”As the words left my mouth, I let go.Using my magic, I flung the necklace toward the bottomless “Abyss of Despair” behind the castle.It was where the Devereux family disposed of failed magical artifacts. An eternal, unquenchable fire burned at its base.“NO—!”Caius let out a heart-wrenching, desperate scream and lunged for it.But he was too slow.The necklace traced a bloody arc through the air and plung

Chapter 8

Larissa’s POVAfter a week of peace, I thought the public humiliation had finally made him give up.Then came the weekend family gathering.“Larissa, a friend of yours has a surprise for you,” my cousin Celeste said, walking over with a mysterious smile. “He’s waiting in the Crystal Hall in the east wing.”“The poor man showed up with an old family token, crying his eyes out, saying he just wanted to see you one last time,” Celeste hesitated. “He looked so pitiful, and he said it was to make up for a regret from a hundred years ago, so I…”A friend? I didn’t have any friends in New Orleans.“Who is it?”“You’ll see when you get there,” she winked. “Trust me, you’ll love it.”A sense of dread washed over me, but I pushed open the doors to the Crystal Hall anyway.For a second, I felt like I had traveled back a hundred years.The once-lavish hall had been completely transformed.A blood-red carpet stretched to the far end, flanked by blooming crimson roses. The air was thick with a famil

Chapter 9

Larissa’s POVFifty years later, at the Global Vampire Summit.“This way, Your Majesty, the Queen of Illusions.”The President of the North American Council personally escorted me, his back bowed so low he didn’t dare meet my eyes.A red carpet stretched from the airstrip to the heart of the venue, flanked by the frantic flashes of countless cameras.Fifty years is a blink of an eye for the immortal, but it’s enough time to change everything.Now, my mastery of illusion was legendary. I was the de facto ruler of the Devereux family and a recognized power in the dark world.No one dared to even speak loudly in my presence.The Elders who had once mocked my bloodline now couldn’t even bring themselves to look at me.The banquet was held on the top floor of a cloud-piercing skyscraper, a glittering affair attended by vampire nobility from across the globe.The moment I appeared, the chattering hall fell silent, replaced by awed whispers.“It’s the Queen of Illusions.”“The Princess of Dev

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