Married With Vampire and Vanished
Gone from Adrian, gone from this mansion, gone from every lie that had been told in my name and against my will.
For the first time in days, the pain in my body dulled. Even the constant ache in my lower abdomen seemed quieter, as if my body itself sensed that the end was near. Hope did strange things. It softened the sharpest edges of fear and convinced me, briefly, that I had already survived.
When I spoke to my birth parents on the phone, I told them about the guards—at least thirty vampires stationed around the estate, rotating shifts, watching every entrance.
My father laughed.