Reborn After My Vampire Husband Betrayed Me and I Let My Stepsister Take My Place
I was born with a gift: the rare ability to bear powerful hybrid children for a vampire. I should have been cherished for it.
Instead, my mother died young, her inheritance seized by my stepmother, my father's affection stolen by my stepsister.
Only Ryan, heir to the vampire King, treated me with gentleness.
When I was young, he fell for me at first sight and was secretly in love with me for two years.
Later, at a gala, someone pushed me into a frozen lake. He was the one who pulled me out.
He bent close, his eyes soft.
“Marry me. Let me protect you.”
I said yes without hesitation.
Because no one had ever stood beside me so surely.
I loved him with everything I had. When assassins struck at our wedding, I even stepped in front of the bullet meant for his heart.
But after I dragged my weakened body through childbirth and gave him his child, he appeared before me with my stepsister Vicky in his arms.
“You have no use to me anymore.”
Ryan's eyes were cold and foreign.
“The person I love has always been Vicky.”
He had chosen me only for my bloodline, purer, better suited to produce an heir.
Vicky smiled and drove the knife into my chest.
Ryan stood to one side and watched me die.
When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the night Ryan proposed.
Vicky was crying, begging to take my place and marry him instead.
This time, I closed my eyes.
“All right. I agree to the exchange.”