All Chapters of After Rebirth, I Gave My Vampire Fiancé Back to His Human Lover: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Elena's POVWhen I opened my eyes again, I heard the bells of the Council.It was low, ancient, and cold.I came awake with a start.What lay in front of me was not a bloodstained hall.Nor Adrian's crimson eyes, already gone dim.It was the council chamber of the Prince's domain.The black marble floor caught the candlelight.At the far end of the long table, the members of the Council sat with grim faces.And Adrian knelt before them.His black formal coat was immaculate, his shoulders straight.He was not wounded.He had not died in my arms.I looked down at my own hands.The fingers were slender and pale, and on the middle one I still wore that engagement ring.I had been reborn.Back to the day of the family council.The day Adrian first knelt before every Elder and asked to end our engagement, all for Clara."The one I love is Clara. I can't marry Elena."Adrian's voice rang out.Calm, certain, without a trace of hesitation."I've only ever seen Elena as a sister. There has never

Elena's POVOn Clara's third day in the Prince's domain, Adrian held a small banquet for her.Ostensibly, it was to introduce her to vampire society.In truth, everyone understood what it really was: Adrian announcing to all of them that Clara was someone who mattered to him, that no noble had better dare to slight her or gossip about her.But how could a single banquet hold back the talk?A human girl.No bloodline.No family.She didn't even understand the most basic vampire etiquette, which meant she was bound to become a target of ridicule.Except that in my last life, having just thrown away my dignity before the Elders begging Adrian to come back, I had attended this banquet too, and absorbed most of the mocking looks for her.Back then, only recently cast aside, I still refused to let go.I wore my most magnificent gown and the ruby earrings he'd given me at our engagement, and I sat stubbornly in that banquet hall.I thought that if I was only dignified enough, noble enough, I

Elena's POVNot long after, my father arranged a new engagement for me.The news came while I was in the study, sorting through the estate ledgers of the past decade.Ever since Adrian and I ended the engagement, my father had finally stopped treating me as some future appendage of the Prince's domain.He began drawing me back into the family's affairs.It was practical.And ironic.In the past, to marry Adrian, I had willingly set aside so much that should have been mine.Power.Land.My place in the family succession.I had thought that becoming Adrian's wife was the best fate this life could offer me.Only in the end did I learn it was a grave I had walked into with my own two feet.When my father pushed open the door, he held a black letter in his hand.A silver wax seal was pressed into the envelope.It bore the crest of House Blackthorne."Lucien Blackthorne."My father set the letter down in front of me."A vampire duke. The current heir of House Blackthorne."I had heard the na

Adrian's POVWhen the wedding bells rang, I stood at the end of the gallery.Elena didn't look back.She placed her hand in Lucien's and exchanged vows with him.That should have been my place.We had grown up together. The entire vampire world had assumed she would marry me.She would wear the bridal gown sent from the Prince's estate.She would stand at my side.She would look at me with those eyes that were always full of hope.But now, step by step, she was walking toward another man.The doors of the wedding hall closed in front of me.As the heavy sound of them shutting fell, something in my chest went suddenly hollow.I tightened my fingers until the knuckles gave a faint crack.Absurd.That I should feel uneasy because Elena was marrying someone else.Ending the engagement was something I had knelt to beg for with my own mouth.The one I loved was Clara.Wasn't all of this exactly what I wanted?So why, now that she had truly set me free, did I feel no lightness at all?Soft fo

Adrian's POVVampires had no true dawn.The sky over the Prince's domain was forever wrapped in heavy night.But when the old clock in the manor struck its sixth toll, I knew the long night had passed.I didn't get drunk again.But the dream didn't fade.If anything, it grew clearer.Clear enough that I could no longer explain it away as a dream.I saw another lifetime.In that lifetime, the Council forced Clara back into the human world.They warned her never to set foot in vampire territory again.To keep her alive, I never went to find her again.And in the end, I still married Elena.On the wedding day, she stood at my side in the bridal gown the Prince's estate had prepared.She was beautiful.And very nervous.She thought I hadn't noticed.But I had.The fingers holding her bouquet wouldn't stop trembling.When the officiant asked if I would take her as my wife, I said I would.But in my heart, I was thinking of Clara.On the wedding night, I sat at the edge of the bed and didn't