The Lost Bet of the Vampire’s Human Wife
He loved me, he truly did, but as a vampire ruler, he could not escape the pressure to continue his ancient bloodline.
And at every Kindred gathering, the old-fashioned elders would whisper in his ear about the importance of pure blood. It was in a moment of weakness that he had become involved with his childhood friend.
But he had never intended to abandon me. In his long, eternal life, I was his only sun, his only acknowledged wife.
He never thought that a single moment of greed and obsession would completely destroy the sacred pact of the last five years, driving away the most irreplaceable light of his life.