When Love Bleeds in the Dark PART eight

We Declared War on the Night That Created Us


War doesn’t always begin with screams.

Sometimes it begins with a decision so quiet it barely registers as sound.


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We didn’t sleep that night.

Not because we couldn’t—
but because something inside us had shifted.

The fear was still there, yes. But it had transformed. Sharpened. Focused.

Fear no longer paralyzed us.

It prepared us.


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“They’ll come for you first,” she said, standing at the broken window of the chapel, watching the moon crawl across the sky. “He knows how to hurt me. And you are the most efficient way.”

“Then we stop waiting,” I replied.

She turned to me slowly.

“You’re talking like someone who’s forgotten how young he is.”

I met her gaze.

“And you’re talking like someone who’s survived too long by running.”

Silence fell between us.

Then—

She smiled.

Not sadly.

Not softly.

Proudly.


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“We’ll need allies,” she said. “And enemies of my maker are… rare.”

“Everyone makes enemies eventually,” I answered. “Especially gods who mistake cruelty for power.”

Her eyes darkened with something dangerous.

“You’re learning too fast,” she murmured.

“I’m motivated.”


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The first city we returned to was one she had sworn never to enter again.

Stone bridges. Narrow streets. Old blood.

“This is where I was turned,” she said quietly.

The air itself felt hostile—as if memory had weight.

“You don’t have to—”

“I do,” she cut in. “War begins where the wound was made.”


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We descended beneath the city, into tunnels older than empires.

That’s where we found them.

The Unbound.

Vampires who had rejected the coven. Survivors. Exiles. Monsters who had chosen conscience over law—or revenge over obedience.

They didn’t trust me.

Not at first.

“A newborn with a death wish,” one of them sneered.

I stepped forward.

“I killed the coven leader,” I said calmly.

That got their attention.


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She spoke next.

Not with fear.

With authority.

“He’s coming,” she said. “And if he wins, none of you will remain free.”

Murmurs rippled through the chamber.

“And what do you offer?” a woman with scarred lips asked.

She looked at me.

Then back at them.

“A future where we choose who we are,” she replied. “Not what made us.”


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They agreed.

Not out of loyalty.

Out of hatred.

The best kind of alliance.


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The first strike came at dawn.

We didn’t attack him.

We attacked his shadow.

Safe houses burned. Messengers vanished. Blood rituals collapsed mid-chant. Every move calculated. Surgical.

He felt it.

I knew because the bond inside me screamed—not hunger, not pain, but recognition.

He was aware.


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That night, he came to us in dreams.

To me.

I stood in a hall of black marble, surrounded by screaming statues frozen mid-prayer.

“You’re ambitious,” he said, circling me. “And ambition is delicious.”

“You’re afraid,” I replied.

He laughed.

“Of you?”

“Of losing her,” I said. “Again.”

The smile fell from his face.

That was my victory.


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I woke gasping.

She was already awake.

“He touched you,” she said.

“Yes.”

Her jaw clenched.

“Then it begins tonight.”


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The battlefield was an ancient citadel overlooking the sea—abandoned, cursed, perfect.

Rain lashed stone. Thunder split the sky like prophecy.

They came in waves.

His followers. His creations. His regrets.

And we met them head-on.


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I fought without restraint now.

Not wildly.

Intentionally.

I learned what my body could do—and what my will demanded.

She fought beside me.

Not protecting.

Not leading.

Equal.

Together, we were devastating.


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Then he arrived.

The night bent around him.

“My beloved,” he said to her, ignoring me entirely. “You’ve always had such dramatic tastes.”

“You taught me well,” she replied coldly.

His gaze slid to me.

“And you,” he said softly. “You wear eternity like rebellion.”

I stepped forward.

“I wear it like a promise.”


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The fight was not glorious.

It was brutal.

Ancient power clashing with new resolve.

Blood rained.

Stone shattered.

At one point, he had me by the throat, lifting me effortlessly.

“You think love makes you strong?” he whispered. “It makes you predictable.”

I smiled through the pain.

“That’s where you’re wrong.”


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She struck him from behind.

Not with rage.

With precision.

Centuries of restraint unleashed in a single, devastating blow.

He screamed.

The sound shook the world.


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But he didn’t die.

He never does.

Instead, he fled—wounded, furious, diminished.

The night swallowed him.

For now.


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When it was over, we stood amid ruins and corpses.

Victory felt hollow.

Temporary.

She looked at me, rain washing blood from her face.

“This isn’t over,” she said.

“I know,” I replied. “But neither are we.”


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As dawn threatened the horizon again, she took my hand.

“You’re no longer just my lover,” she said quietly. “You’re my equal.”

I squeezed her fingers.

“Then let eternity come,” I said. “We’ll meet it together.”


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Far away, something ancient stirred.

War had been declared.

And the night would answer.



When love becomes rebellion, can eternity survive the consequences?


👉 Continue to Part Nine, where victory demands a sacrifice even immortals fear to make.


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