All Chapters of He Chose His Lover and Lost Everything: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

10 Chapters

Chapter 1

"Caine?"The young man in black jerked his head up. When he recognized me, his pale skin seemed to drain of what little color it had, and the food case in his hands nearly slipped from his grasp.The young woman noticed nothing and smiled as she took the case from him. "Adrian actually sent you himself tonight?"Caine's throat bobbed. His fingers, clenched around the short sword at his hip, were white at the knuckles. For a long moment, he couldn't manage a single coherent word.I recognized that case. The blood jelly from the Twilight Parlor was made with licensed blood and night roses and served in silver-rimmed crystal bowls. It was cloyingly sweet. Adrian never touched sweet blood, but I loved it. A few days ago, I had casually mentioned wanting to try a new flavor, but he had replied flatly that the Night Council kept him too busy for such trivial indulgences.So, when he had time, he simply saved his thoughtfulness for another woman."Ma'am, why do you keep staring at the case?"

Chapter 2

Adrian's hands went still, and a flicker of panic crossed his eyes. But it vanished at once, and he quickly looked calm again."A colleague sent it to my office. I had a taste." He picked up a white napkin and wiped his fingers slowly. "Evelyn, when did you become so petty? You're questioning me over a bite of sweet blood?"Once again, he had turned his lie against me. If I hadn't seen Caine with my own eyes, I would probably have done what I always did: wonder if I was being too suspicious, if I wasn't good enough, or if, after nearly a century of life, I still didn't know how to be a proper wife."A colleague sent it?" I nodded. "That colleague must know you very well, yet somehow doesn't know that you never touch sweet blood."Adrian's expression darkened. He stood and looked down at me. "What exactly are you trying to say? I spend every night working with the Council and the hunters' delegation, and I have to come home to this? You're throwing a tantrum over nothing?"Throwing a ta

Chapter 3

"All right."I walked past the butler and went straight to the bedroom.I was done waiting. I would never wait again.I had Claire lock the door, then pulled a black wooden chest from the back of the wardrobe. Inside were not gowns or jewels, but the deeds to every property my family owned in Greyharbor.The Lamberts were not old-blood nobility, but they ran the largest licensed blood supply station in Greyharbor, along with a night hospital, a transport fleet, and dozens of shops. I was the family's sole heiress. When I insisted on marrying Adrian, who had nothing to his name, my father was so angry that he shattered a century-old crystal glass. Even so, he gave me a large fund of my own.In the three years since, Adrian had risen from a councilman with no backing to Chief Magistrate. His salary was not even enough to run the estate and maintain its protective wards. Nearly every gold coin spent on hosting council members, forming ties with old-blood families, and dealing with the hun

Chapter 4

Lillian Hart sat down across from me without even asking, stroking the rose at her chest. "I thought you looked familiar that day at the jewelry shop. So you're Evelyn Lambert."She gave a soft laugh. "Adrian says you're like an ice-cold statue. Being around you makes it hard to breathe. He also said that if you didn't come from money, he would never have put up with you this long."I sat quietly and listened as she repeated, word by word, every bad thing Adrian had said about me behind my back.Lillian lifted the silver chain at her throat. "Do you know how much this sunstone cost? Adrian paid a thousand gold pounds to a northern witch for it. He said I'd only just been turned and couldn't stand the sunlight. With this, I wouldn't have to hide in a cellar forever." She tilted her head. "Has he ever given you anything this special or thoughtful?"I looked at her smug face and felt a sudden wave of pity for her and for the woman I used to be.I stood up and slapped her across the face.

Chapter 5

Adrian's back went stiff for a moment. Then he laughed coldly. "Threatening to leave me again? Evelyn, this little act is ridiculous."He carried Lillian through the gate and vanished into the fog.I curled up on the freezing stone. Pain tore through my stomach in waves, each worse than the last. Claire knelt in the pool of blood, pressing her hands against my wounded palm and calling for a physician over and over.The physician took far too long to arrive. Caine had taken him to the guest room first to remove the silver from Lillian's palm and clean the poison out of her blood. By the time he reached my room, I no longer had the strength to cry out in pain.When the physician saw the blackened wound in my palm, his face went pale. He cut the wound open to drain the blood poisoned by holy silver, pressed his stethoscope to my abdomen, and then slowly dropped to his knees."Ma'am, the holy silver stayed in your blood for too long. It stopped your body from healing. The baby... I couldn'

Chapter 6

"Claire, pack my things."She stared at me. "Ma'am, where are we going?""Home to the Lambert estate. Back to my own house."I got out of bed, opened the wardrobe, and packed everything that belonged to me—my gowns, jewelry, deeds, sunstones, and books. It took only half an hour. I left nothing of mine behind, not even the blanket my mother had made for me.The estate that had been my cage for three years now felt empty as a tomb.I took one last look and walked away. The guards at the gate didn't dare touch a Lambert convoy, much less stop a woman who had just lost her baby. Adrian thought his order was enough to keep me there. He had forgotten who paid for his guards, his estate, and his reputation all along.When the carriage reached the Lambert estate in Greyharbor, Arthur and more than a dozen longtime servants were waiting at the bottom of the steps. I took off the bloodstone ring that stood for our marriage and placed it in the box with the broken dawn-prayer silver. Arthur did

Chapter 7

Adrian frowned. "Settled? What do you mean? Do you know Lillian's shop is in trouble? Take two thousand gold pounds to her right now and deal with it."His tone was not a request. It was an order, as if he still had the right to tell me what to do. It made me sick.I pulled a stack of papers from my bag and put them in front of him. "Read them carefully."The first was a request to end our blood oath. Adrian saw the title, and his face turned cold. He slapped the paper on the table. "You've lost your mind. I won't sign this. Do you think threatening me with ending our bond will make me give in?""Don't rush. Keep reading."He thought that as long as he refused to sign, I could never leave him. But the Night Code allowed me to end our blood oath without his agreement if he had hurt me, taken my money, or caused the death of our unborn child. I didn't tell him that. His refusal would only help me later.The second was a bill that listed every coin he owed me."For three years, I paid for

Chapter 8

Caine paused for a second, then held her hand tightly. "Don't be scared. I'll figure something out."He looked at her like he was in love. Adrian had always believed Caine was his most loyal guard. He had no idea that Caine had become another man Lillian could depend on and use.Over the next three nights, Adrian tried to borrow money from everyone he knew. The council members and noble families who used to fight for his attention now refused to see him.One said his vault was being repaired. Another said his wife controlled the family money. A third had a servant tell Adrian he was asleep. The rich and powerful people of Greyharbor were no fools. Everyone had heard I had cut him off. Without my money and business network, no one knew how long Adrian could hold on to his power.When the deadline came, he still couldn't find even a thousand gold pounds.That night was the annual meeting of the Greyharbor Night Commerce Guild. Adrian went as Chief Magistrate, hoping to borrow money from

第九章

The words had barely left my mouth when a group of Tribunal guards in black cloaks stormed into the corridor. Each wore a mask that protected them from charms and carried a silver crossbow marked with church runes.Leading them was Marcus Reign, Chief Prosecutor of the Night Tribunal and Adrian's political rival for many years."Magistrate Vaughn, I trust you've been well." Marcus opened an arrest warrant stamped with the Tribunal's blood seal. "A formal complaint says you took money from the Blackfir River Dam and Sunlight Dome repair projects and used it to pay a private jewelry shop's debts. Please come with us."Adrian stumbled back as if he had been struck. He turned to me. "It was you?""All I did was give Marcus that bill. You were the one who chose to use public money to save Lillian's shop."Adrian had thought no one would notice him moving the money overnight. He didn't know that ever since he lost access to my money, my people had been watching every blood seal he signed."E

Chapter 10

"Evelyn, I know I was wrong." Adrian held tightly to the silver bars. Smoke rose from his palms, but he refused to let go. "I let my pride blind me. I didn't know how much I had until I lost it. Save me. If you hire the best lawyer and ask a few council members to speak for me, Marcus might help reduce the sentence.”He looked up at me. He looked so broken that none of his old pride as Chief Magistrate remained. "Once I'm out, I'll love you the way I should have. I'll never look at another woman again."I stood outside the cell and looked at the man I had once loved so deeply, the same man who had destroyed me."Adrian, do you remember our child?"His sobs stopped, and he stared at me in horror."That night, when the holy silver got into my blood and I was bleeding on the ground, you chose to carry Lillian away. Did it ever cross your mind that I was carrying your child?"Adrian shook all over. "I didn't know you were pregnant. If I'd known, I never would've—""You would." I cut him of

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