The V: am/pire Lord’s Final Salva*]tion

At t] (he engagem@ $ent ban; quet, t_he Dark!$ ]#$.Lord Darius lifted m/(y v; e
=-il:, his eyes f*#)illed with disgust. “The woman;[ @?I w,.anted$ to marry is dea$^d. Yet- y\#ou;  are [still alive.” @? ,!He= blindfolded me, fo-rbid_ding #-me to= spe [ak^_, forbidd
#in[@g me]=` to r?\,ais?
*e m= y hea%/\:d. That night , I] cried away all the tea+rs of my past life. Reborn@, I returned t]?o the day -he mistook some o`_ne else for; the one. who had s))
aved him$. (/)My sister- Elise w`as). pretend]!i*)ng to be me,] acceptin=#:^g h;!is marriage) con,?^-tr^,act+^ in ?(my place.  This ,tim@e , I k@.nelt before the Duchess fir =st . “P/+-\lease, Mad`*am `,  arrange my marriage as soon  #as poss(+,ible too.:=” Later, I married the no @]rt?h^ `ern Fro st L =ord, a man i$^nfa* ;mous for his cold/?-blo,ode$:
d cruelty. On the/ day of my
weddin,(g);,@ Da(: rius fought his :wa*$**y to (@my b^)`ri(( dal ca)?rria @ge.