Becoming the Lord of Norpothia

Synopsis

"I want to break the blood bond," Isabella Chambers said. She stood in the center of the study, her silver hair damp from the rain, her voice as cold as a blade. I didn't look up. My quill swept smoothly across the parchment, marking the last family crest with a flourish. My name was Cedric Wayne. I was the head of the Thirteen Clans Council of Norpothia and the reigning Prince of the Wayne family. And Isabella had been my fiancée for seven years. "Reason," I said. "I am in love with someone else," Isabella answered. The air went dead silent. Outside, the rain lashed against the stained glass, and the distant toll of the clock tower echoed through the night. At last, I lifted my gaze. "Who?" "Lucian," Isabella replied. The candlelight seemed to shudder at the mention of his name. Lucian was the new Earl of the Blackthorne family. He was the most dangerous madman in Norpothia. If Isabella said she wasn't happy, he'd wipe out half an underground blood nest without blinking. As for me, I never lost control. Isabella hated how composed I was. She hated how I was always as cold as an iceberg. So she chose Lucian Blackthorne. Isabella gave a cold, mocking laugh. "Cedric, you never love me, did you?" I set down my quill and looked at her. I said, "I held back your bloodlust the night you lost control at your coming-of-age ceremony. "I wiped out the hunter bounties when the Chambers family went bankrupt three times. "You were terrified of sacred silver, so I tore apart the silver vaults of thirty-seven churches across Norpothia." Her face lost all color because she suddenly realized I never once told her I loved her. But almost everything she had these years was because of me.