From His Shield to His Nightmare

"My family is human. We were gifted a long life by the Thorne clan, something close to immortality. For generations, we’ve been their most loyal guardians.And I fell in love with Cedric, the vampire lord I was sworn to protect.For a hundred years, I was his secret. His sin. His only bedmate.I was his shield against dark magic. The sworn protector of his vast clan.I thought I’d earn the mark of an eternal bond. I was even ready for him to turn me.After all, on every blood moon, he would claim my body.Then, at the peak of an agonizing pleasure, he’d sink his fangs into my neck and drink my blood.He’d press his cold lips to my skin and whisper that I was his one and only. That no other blood, no other body, could make him lose control like this.But this time, the moment he was finished with me, he announced his eternal bond with Elsie, the pureblood princess of the Valerius clan.He smirked at the shock on my face."You're just a human, gifted a long life by my ancestors. My bed warmer. You didn't actually think you could be my mate, did you?"In that moment, I understood.I was just a renewable blood bag. A tool with a purpose.For an alliance, for her, he sacrificed me.He cast me into the abyss and let the darkness swallow me whole.He thought the Guardian's Pact would chain me to him for eternity. But he forgot one thing.Every pact has a loophole.So I destroyed everything he ever gave me.Then, with my family's help, I vanished.But when the Lord of Eternal Night couldn't find his favorite toy… he went mad."