My Vampire Fiancé Refused to Lend Me Money, So I Married the Northern Lord
Because I was the one who'd taken his hand, amid my mother's screams, and led him out of that hell.
When the Prince and Princess came to see him, he would hold my hand and ask me to stay.
Fifteen years ago, I ate and slept beside him.
Even as a vampire, who needed no sleep, no rest, he could close his eyes and lie quiet for hours with his head on my knee.
My care healed him quickly, yet it sent my own life into free fall.
The Princess moved me into a servant's room in a far corner.
Adrian, it seemed, found those recovering days too shameful to remember, so he avoided me, and hated it most of all when I mentioned my mother.