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.

"You're all standing here telling him the sun god won't hurt his own blood," Roland said. "Have you forgotten? We are the ones who lived it." His eyes swept across us all and landed on Mason. "Vaelion isn't a good god. Vaelion has never been a good god. He's a throne wearing a crown, and anyone he decides is in his way gets removed from the board — son, daughter, grandchild, it doesn't matter. It has never mattered." His voice dropped, and what came out of it was grief sharpened into a blade.


Chapter 407 - Stop Panicking