For nine hundred years, Blue believed there was one thing vampires could never have.

A mate.

He had watched werewolves find theirs. He had watched people fall in love, build families, and grow old together.

He had everything a vampire could want—power, immortality, immunity to the sun, wealth, a family that would kill for him.

Everything except the one person who was supposed to be his.

Then he found Mason Carter.

A quiet boy who had spent years believing he was unwanted, unlovable, and somehow wrong for simply being himself.

Blue should have stayed away.

Instead, he watched from the shadows.

He protected Mason when no one else did. He waited when every instinct told him to step forward. And when Mason finally reached eighteen, Blue could no longer pretend that the bond between them was something he could ignore.

But Mason isn't simply the impossible mate Blue spent nine centuries searching for.

There is something inside him.

Something ancient.

Something powerful.

And once the supernatural world discovers what Mason truly is, vampires, werewolves, elves, demons—and beings far older than any of them—will have their eyes on him.

Blue has spent nine hundred years searching for his mate.

Now that he's finally found him…

He'll have to decide how far he's willing to go to keep him.

Because loving Mason may be dangerous.

But losing him?

That's not an option.

"No." Ethan cut him off. Not angrily. Just tiredly, the way a man cuts off a kindness he can't afford to accept. "I know. The video was clear. I saw it with my own eyes. But I still can't wrap my head around it. I'm still in shock. My head hurts, my heart hurts, and I'm standing here trying so hard not to fall apart — because our family didn't deserve what she did. Gilbert didn't deserve it. None of them deserved it." His voice cracked, and he pulled it back together with visible effort. "I'm trying not to fall apart because she doesn't deserve my pain. Even though my heart is literally tearing out of my chest."


Nobody said anything. There was nothing to say.


Chapter 404 - Heart Breaks and Healing