One Betrayal Is Enough

Centuries-old marriage shattered by a single broken promise.

After seven decades as the vampire world's model couple, the narrator watches her husband Adrian swear eternal devotion in a documentary, only to receive footage of him biting a young human woman in a hotel hallway and whispering she belongs to him until dawn. He dismisses the encounter as a fleeting diversion, insisting their endless future together outweighs a few stolen nights, but she reminds him of their wedding vow: poverty, war, and death were acceptable, a third person in their marriage was not. She serves divorce papers, claims what is hers, and walks away, building a new existence across a century while the immortal duke remains alone in the night, unable to reclaim the love he discarded.

• fantasy
• revenge
• family