I Left With Son After Vampire Mate Chose Human Lover

My blood-bonded vampire mate left me while I was pregnant to be with his "first love" in the human world.

When danger struck, he abandoned our son to protect her human child, who was not in any danger.

While our son was struggling with lethal UV burns and calling for his father through a high fever, he was celebrating under citywide fireworks with that human boy, who only had a common cold.

He even took the life-saving serum I had prepared for our son, just to use it for the boy’s "pre-transformation conditioning."

He coldly stated, "Vampires are resilient; he’ll endure it. Human children are too fragile."

After four years of raising our son alone, I finally decided to leave.

I officially cut our blood ties and moved away with our son. Only then did he find out that his "first love" had been lying to him all along.

After learning the truth, the arrogant vampire prince wept and begged for us to come back.

The night hunters raided the training compound, my blood-bonded mate ran into the UV zone — not to save our son, but to save his human sweetheart's kid.

That kid was human.

Sunlight couldn't touch him.

But,our son Luka had completed his awakening less than a month ago.

The blood thrall housekeeper burst into my healing chamber, her face drained of color.

"Something's wrong at the young bloods' training compound."

My heart stopped. Luka had his first blood-control session there today.

He'd been too excited to sleep the night before.

When I got there, I found him curled in a corner.

The UV burns had split open the skin along both his arms, the veins underneath gone dark — not the deep red of healthy vampire blood, but the ashen black of something dying.

A newly awakened fledgling takes UV damage three times worse than a turned adult. He was still in the most vulnerable window of his awakening.

"Mom..."

He fell into my arms. Tears cut through the ash on his face.

"Does Father really not want me?"

My chest clenched like something had reached in and closed its fist.

He kept going, his voice breaking apart.

"Father was the first one to reach the compound when the raid started. I saw him. I thought — I thought he came for me."

Luka's small body trembled against mine.

"I called out to him. I called his name."

"But he just ran right past me."

"He grabbed Damian and walked out."

"He saw me, Mom. He looked right at me. And he didn't stop."

I held him tighter, eyes burning, unable to say a single word.

Damian was human.

The hunters' UV bombs couldn't touch him. He'd been standing in the light zone completely unharmed — just a boy in the sun, nothing more.

But Luka had just awakened. His blood instincts were still unstable. UV exposure at this stage could scar him permanently.

Kaelan knew this. He'd ruled this city for three centuries. No