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The darkness faded slowly, giving way to a mist that gradually revealed light from behind the previous darkness. Lilith felt warmth before she lost consciousness. Strong arms wrapped around her body, holding her very tightly. A steady chest beneath her cheek. And a voice that sounded distant and low, calling out to her.“Lilith... Please, wake up...”Her eyelids fluttered open. She was in a bedroom. Not the Northern mansion, but the main one. Soft curtains and a familiar ceiling. And Lucas was there. He was sitting beside her on the bed, still gazing deeply at her. The moment their eyes met, something twisted painfully in her chest.And then, it hit her so hard. A flash. Candlelight. Soft music. A grand ballroom filled with people dancing together. A white gown. Laughter. Lucas standing across the room, looking young or perhaps not younger. Just different. The Lucas there looked gentler than the cold Lucas of now.Another flash occurred so quickly. The scene shifted as a deafening scr

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Lilith’s pulse quickened instantly. A strange warmth flickered in her chest. She hated the fact that her body responded to him. “I don’t remember loving you,” she whispered.“You don’t remember hating me either.” That immediately silenced Lilith. Lucas stepped closer, but still didn’t touch her.“If you want to leave me, I won’t stop you, Lilith,” Lucas said quietly. “But if you want to stay here with me, it won’t be because I bought you, Lilith. It’s because you are my sire bond, my mate...”Lilith’s heart pounded painfully. “You should have told me everything.”“I was afraid.”“You?” she asked bitterly.“Yes.” His voice dropped. “I was afraid that if you remembered how you died in 1920, you would never look at me the same again. And I knew that you didn’t remember who I was to you when we first met. Because I wanted to make a new impression on you, so you wouldn’t have to remember what had happened before.”Tears slid down her cheeks. She didn’t know what she was feeling. Fear, ange

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Lilith’s heart pounded painfully. “You remember when we told you that you’re a descendant of the vampire bloodline that turned us into vampires, right?”Lilith nodded faintly as her world tilted again. “In 1920, when you died, you tried to protect me from them.” Her breath caught.“You stepped between me and the blade.”Another flash struck in her mind. A man lunging. Cold steel. Lucas shouting at her.“You died because you chose me over those who kept trying to exterminate our kind.”Lilith’s knees weakened. Her breathing grew more labored, and her vision began to blur. It felt as though Lucas’s words were a wind shaking her to her core.“And I chose you long before any of that happened, Lilith,” he added softly.Silence enveloped the three of them. The trees. The wind. Everything felt distant. Lilith stared at Lucas. At the man who wasn’t a man to her at that moment. At the monster who looked at her as if she were salvation.“So, you’re real,” she whispered.Lucas didn’t smile. “Yes,

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Lilith didn’t leave the mansion that night. Not because she was trapped inside. But because something within her no longer wanted to run away from there. Lucas stood by the tall window in the library, moonlight framing his silhouette. Too still. Too quiet. Too inhuman. And yet, she felt safest there.“Tell me everything,” she said softly.Lucas didn’t turn immediately. “If I do, you won’t be able to go back to believing this is madness.”“I already can’t.” Silence stretched between them before he finally faced her.“Are you sure you want to know who you really are?”She nodded. “And about my bloodline.”A shadow crossed his expression. “It wasn’t your family, Lilith,” he said quietly. “Not the way you thought before.”Lilith stepped closer. A deep frown appeared on her forehead. “Then who was that woman?”Lucas moved toward the fireplace, the fire unlit but unnecessary for him. “You remember, don’t you, that Noah and I were dying in 1865?”“Yes, of course I remember.” Lilith nodded sl

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Lilith shook her head before she realized she was doing it. “No.” Lucas froze.She stepped closer without thinking about it. “You didn’t become a monster. You were forced into something you never chose.”Lucas’s eyes softened. “Lilith... I...”Her heartbeat grew louder and stronger. Lilith felt drawn toward him in a way that wasn’t entirely her own. Her finger lifted. She didn’t remember deciding to touch him. But she did. Her hand rested against his chest. Cold, but steady, and beneath her palm. Lilith felt it. A faint echo. Not a heartbeat, but something deeper. A pull.Lucas inhaled sharply. The sound was low and restrained, as if he were holding back something far more dangerous than breath. “You feel it,” he murmured.Lilith frowned slightly, though her body betrayed her calm. There was a strange warmth curling beneath her skin, spreading like slow-burning fire through her veins.“I don’t think I know what I’m feeling, Lucas.”Lucas’s gaze darkened, fixed entirely on her as if no

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Lilith didn’t remember falling asleep. One moment she was staring at the ceiling of her room, listening to the unnatural silence of the mansion. The next second, she was standing in the middle of a ballroom. Music filled the air, a soft jazz. She knew it without anyone telling her.The sparkling chandelier above cast a golden glow across the gleaming marble floor. Women in silk gowns laughed, covering their mouths with gloved hands. Men in tailored suits began whispering secrets in the dead of night, gazing at the women there.And across the room, there was Lucas. Lucas looked so much less controlled, more reckless, and alive. Even though Lilith knew very well that it wasn’t right. It actually made her heart tighten painfully. But when his eyes met hers, the same intensity burned there. Lucas gave her a small smile.“You came,” he said, stepping toward her.“I always do,” she replied.The words came naturally. Because she had said them before. Those memories now flooded her mind with

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“No!” His voice came out rough and unsteady.Lucas jerked back as if burned. The movement was sudden and very sharp. He turned away immediately, running a hand through his hair as if he were trying to tear himself out of his own skin.“This is exactly what I was afraid of, Lilith.”Lilith stood frozen, watching Lucas as he kept his back turned and didn’t look in her direction at all. Her lips were still slightly parted, and her heart was pounding.“You stopped,” she said softly. Not accusing, just observing.“I had to.” He didn’t dare look at her. Because if he did, he wasn’t sure he would stop again.“You think you’d hurt me, is that it?”“I know I would. I’ve done it before.”Silence fell for a moment, and it felt heavy. Uneven and uncontrolled breathing filled the space between them. Lucas finally turned back, this time a little more slowly. But he kept his distance from her. Deliberately.“You won’t understand a single thing about what just happened,” he said. “The bond strengthen

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Noah’s private residence stood on the outskirts of the city. Modern, minimalist, and isolated. Glass walls. Steel frames. No warmth and no history. A place designed for someone who didn’t want to be found. Yet wasn’t afraid if he was. Lucas didn’t knock. He never had. The door opened before his hand even touched it. A quiet click, like an invitation or a challenge from inside the house.“You’ve always been dramatic, brother,” Noah’s voice echoed from inside, calm and undisturbed by Lucas’s sudden presence.Lucas stepped in. The scent inside immediately stung his nose. The scent of fresh blood. It wasn’t even being hidden or masked. It hadn’t even been properly cleaned up. The scent clung to the air like a warning. Or worse yet, like a message.“You’re starting to let your guard down,” Lucas said in a cold tone.The words cut through the silence like a blade. Noah emerged from the shadows, leaning casually against the wall as if he’d been there the whole time. Watching and waiting. As

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The mansion was too quiet. It wasn’t the kind of silence that felt soothing, nor the kind that felt safe. It was simply a silence that made the walls feel as though they were listening to everything inside.Lilith stood by the window, hugging herself tightly with both arms, trying to warm herself in a room that now felt much colder than before. Lilith’s gaze was fixed straight ahead, staring into the darkness beyond the glass.The city lights flickered in the distance, faint and scattered. The mansion was so far from the city that the lights appeared very faint. It was as if her world now belonged to another realm. Lilith’s thoughts drifted away again.Five people were dead. And she could still hear the news echoing in her head. Severe blood loss. There were no visible wounds on any of the five bodies. Her fingers tightened slightly around her arms, feeling extremely tense.“This is all my fault.” The words kept coming out before she could stop them.“No.” Lucas’s voice came from behi

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Lilith woke with a gasp that tore through the silence. Her chest rose and fell too fast and too sharply, as if the air around her weren’t enough to fill her lungs. For a moment, she didn’t know where she was. The darkness lingered, not around her, but inside her.Her fingers curled against the sheets, gripping them tightly as if to anchor herself to something that felt far more real. Yet, even that felt insufficient. Her body felt so strange. Too warm and too aware. As if something was still touching her.“Lilith...” Lucas’s voice cut through the haze instantly.He was already there. Too close to her. Always too close. His hand was on her shoulder before she could even turn, firm and grounding, but there was something else beneath that touch, a sense of urgency.“Lilith, look at me.”She did. And for a second, she wished she hadn’t. Because the look in Lucas’s eyes wasn’t just concern, but something darker and sharper, almost resembling panic.“I saw him, Lucas...” She whispered, her

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