Crimson Heir: Rise Of The First Blood
BLURB
Rylan Vane was born a noble but died a nobody. Stripped of his bloodline and cast into the lowest caste of vampire society, he survives in the shadows of the undercity, feeding on vermin and hiding from enforcers who would finish what his family’s betrayers started.
He is weak, nameless, and forgotten.
But when a brush with death forces him into the forbidden Catacombs of Flesh, he discovers something impossible: a Seal of the First Blood, an ancient heirloom forged by the progenitor of all vampires. The Seal should have destroyed him, instead, it bonded to him, awakening a power no vampire has possessed in a millennia, and a terrifying ability to hear the Echoes of other Seals scattered across the Dominion.
Now Rylan must navigate a world that wants him dead. Noble houses will hunt him for the power he carries. The Empress, who has ruled for a thousand years through her own Seal, will see him as a threat to her throne. And the Seals themselves whisper to him, offering power beyond imagination, at a price that may cost him his soul.
From the gutters of Nyxara to the heart of the Crimson Throne, Rylan will rise. But the question is not whether he can become powerful enough to survive. The question is what he will become in the process.
Read
Chapter: 48CHAPTER 48THE FIRST RETURNIt didn’t happen gradually. There was no slow shift, no careful transition like before. It broke through.Vaelis felt it first. Not as a voice. Not even as a presence. As resistance. Sharp. Sudden. His body stilled mid-step, the motion cutting off so abruptly it looked unnatural, like something had pulled a thread too tight and snapped it in place. Across the clearing, Kael noticed immediately. “Okay,” he muttered, pushing himself up. “That’s new.”Eran straightened slightly, his expression losing its usual ease. “What’s he doing?” Tarin didn’t answer. Because Vaelis wasn’t doing anything. He wasn’t moving. He wasn’t reacting. He just stood there, like something had locked him in place. Mira didn’t speak. But her attention snapped to him instantly. Something about this, was wrong. Not like before. Not controlled. Not measured. This was… unstable.“Vaelis?” Tarin called carefully. No response. Then, his hand twitched. Small. Almost unnoticeable. But it wasn’
Last Updated: 2026-04-18
Chapter: 47THE VOICE THAT WASN’T ALONEThe quiet didn’t follow him this time. Vaelis stepped away from the others without saying anything, not because he needed distance, but because the space felt… off. It wasn’t something visible. Nothing had changed in the forest. The air still moved the same way, the trees still held that steady, endless calm. But something underneath it, wasn’t right. He stopped once he was far enough that their voices blurred into something indistinct. Not gone. Just distant. He could still hear Kael laughing faintly, Eran saying something that was stupid. Tarin responding under his breath. Normal. That was what it sounded like. Vaelis exhaled slowly. “You’re still there,” he said quietly. There was a pause.“I didn’t leave.”Rylan’s voice came through clearer than before. Not stable, not entirely present, but no longer faint enough to ignore.Vaelis tilted his head slightly. “You sound… different.”“I feel different,” Rylan replied. There was a small hitch in the words, l
Last Updated: 2026-04-15
Chapter: 46CHAPTER 46SMALL THINGS THAT STAY The silence didn’t end. It softened. That was the difference. No one rushed it this time. No one felt the need to fix it or fill it with noise just because it existed. It lingered between them in a way that didn’t feel broken. Vaelis noticed that too. But instead of analysing it, he stayed inside it. That was new.Kael stretched slightly, letting out a quiet breath. “You’re getting better at that.”“At what?” Vaelis asked.“Not ruining things,” Kael replied.“That is not a skill,” Vaelis said.“It is,” Eran cut in. “And you were very bad at it earlier.”Tarin snorted. “He still is.”Vaelis looked between them. “I have improved.”“Barely,” Kael said.“That is still improvement.”Eran grinned. “We’ll take it.”Vaelis didn’t argue that. He just stood there, quieter than before, but not distant. Not removed. Just… present. Lira had been watching the whole time. She shifted slightly now, stepping a little closer into the circle. “You’re not forcing it any
Last Updated: 2026-04-14
Chapter: 45CHAPTER 45TRYING TO FITVaelis didn’t move for a while after that. Not because he had nothing to do. But because he was thinking. Processing. Rearranging something that didn’t quite belong to him. The others didn’t rush him. That, in itself, was unusual. Kael gave it a few seconds. Then, inevitably, “So,” he said, pushing himself up again. “What did you learn?”Vaelis glanced at him. “That he makes inefficient choices.”Tarin let out a breath that might’ve been a laugh. “That’s one way to put it.”“That is the correct way to put it,” Vaelis replied.Eran grinned. “Alright then. Show us.”Vaelis stilled slightly. “Show you what?”“How you’re going to do it,” Kael said. “All that ‘understanding’ you just claimed.” Vaelis’ gaze shifted between them.Then, “You expect demonstration.”“Yes,” Eran said immediately.“That is unnecessary.”“It’s entertaining,” Kael corrected.“That is not a valid reason.”“It is for us.”Vaelis exhaled slowly, clearly weighing the effort against the outcom
Last Updated: 2026-04-14
Chapter: 44CHAPTER 44QUESTIONS THAT STAYThe question didn’t pass through them lightly. It stayed. Hung in the space between them, quieter than anything that had come before it.Kael shifted his weight first, his usual ease slipping just slightly. “That’s… a different kind of question,” he said.Vaelis didn’t react. “You said to ask something I want to know.”“Yeah,” Eran muttered, scratching the back of his neck. “We just didn’t think you’d go straight for that.”Tarin exhaled slowly, his gaze dropping briefly before lifting again. “He liked simple things,” he said.Vaelis’ attention moved to him. “Like what?”Tarin shrugged faintly. “Food, for one. Not in a complicated way. Just… good food. He’d act like it didn’t matter, but you could always tell when it did.”Kael snorted. “That’s putting it lightly. He once argued for ten minutes over whether something was overcooked.”“That was a valid argument,” Tarin replied.“It was bread,” Kael shot back.“That doesn’t make it less important.”“He’s a
Last Updated: 2026-04-14
Chapter: 43CHAPTER 43PRETENDING IT’S NORMALThey didn’t speak about it. Not when Vaelis returned. Not when Mira came back a few moments later, her expression carefully blank, her eyes refusing to meet anyone else’s. The silence that followed wasn’t heavy in the same way as before. It was… managed. Held together by something thin but deliberate. Kael broke it first. “Alright,” he said, clapping his hands once as he stood, like he had just decided something important. “We’re not doing that again.”PTarin glanced up. “Doing what?”“This,” Kael gestured vaguely between all of them. “Standing around like we just witnessed the end of the world.”Eran huffed a quiet breath. “We kind of did.”“No,” Kael replied immediately. “We didn’t. He’s still here.” He jerked his thumb toward Vaelis. “Which means we’re not done yet.”Vaelis tilted his head slightly. “That logic is questionable.”“Yeah, well, so is everything else right now,” Kael shot back. “So we’re working with it.”Tarin let out a small breath
Last Updated: 2026-04-14
Abandoned King Gives No Mercy: Hell Will Burn
Blurb
She believed the lies.
Her mother made sure of it.
One moment, I was her husband. The next, I was a monster in her eyes — a poor man accused of hurting the woman I loved. They threw pictures in my face, forged proof, and handed me divorce papers. And she, Sally, stood there in silence. Not a word. Not a tear.
That was the day I died — and a king was born.
Years later, I returned richer, colder, and untouchable. The world now bows to my name. But my revenge is just beginning… until Yvonne Wells, a scandal-tarnished model, storms into my life. She was supposed to be my contract girlfriend — a shield against the chaos. I never meant to drag her into my storm, but she became the only light that could calm it.
Now, the same family that destroyed me is crawling back, desperate to rewrite the past. But I’m not that broken man anymore.
I’m the king they abandoned — and this time, I give no mercy.
Read
Chapter: 120CHAPTER 120:The End of the RopeEthan's Pov;The last ladder was cold under my hands.Wet.Rust-covered.Shaking from the impact of Lysander’s men battering the platform below.Each step up felt like I was climbing out of the life that had tried to destroy me for years.Yvonne climbed with me one hand gripping the rung, the other clinging to my arm. Her breaths were sharp, uneven. Her ankle trembled every time she lifted it, but she didn’t stop.Not once.At the top of the ladder, the wind hit us hard and violently, like the sky itself didn’t want us here. The roof was flat, wide, marked with an old landing pad symbol faded by storms.The helicopter waited on the far side.Blades spinning lazily.Engine humming.A quiet, hungry sound.Lysander stood beside it.He didn’t look rushed.Or panicked.Or threatened.He looked patient, like a man waiting for a delayed meeting.Danica and Reina reached the roof behind us, guns raised. Evan helped Derrick up. Aiden collapsed on his knees, pant
Last Updated: 2025-12-15
Chapter: 119CHAPTER 119:The Last StaircaseEthan's Pov;Gunfire shredded the metal behind us.Screams.Footsteps pounding.The platform rattling beneath us like it wanted to break apart.I didn’t look back.I kept my hand around Yvonne’s wrist, dragging her forward as the whole world behind us exploded with bullets.“Go, go, go!” Danica yelled.Reina fired over her shoulder, covering us. Aiden stumbled, nearly tripping over a pipe. Evan yanked Derrick up by his collar like he weighed nothing.Lysander’s voice echoed through the fog, calm even as chaos erupted:“Do not let them reach the top level.”A set of armored footsteps followed fast, disciplined.More than one.Too many.We reached the main staircase, a rusted spiral bolted onto the side of the platform structure. It groaned under the storm wind, swaying just slightly.Danica cursed under her breath. “This thing’s held together by prayer.”“Move,” I said.I didn’t care if it snapped under uswe weren’t surviving the alternative.Reina grabb
Last Updated: 2025-12-15
Chapter: 118CHAPTER 118: The Line That BreaksEthan's Pov;The platform vibrated under our feet. Wind slammed into the rusting beams, and the ocean roared beneath us like it wanted to swallow the whole structure. Everything felt unstable: the metal, the air, even the people around me.But nothing was more unstable than Evan standing in front of me.His chest rose and fell too fast. His jaw trembled, just barely. His eyes wouldn’t settle. They flicked from me, to Lysander, to the others, then back to me like he was searching for an escape from his own skin.“Ethan…” he whispered. “Don’t listen to him.”I didn’t move.I didn’t trust myself to move.Lysander stepped forward, that same quiet smile cutting across his face.“I see the way you hesitate,” he said. “You already know the truth.”Evan flinched like the words burned.And maybe they did.Yvonne’s hand tightened around my arm small, shaking, but grounding. Her grip told me she felt everything I felt: anger, confusion, fear, betrayal twisting i
Last Updated: 2025-12-15
Chapter: 117CHAPTER 117:Ethan’s Breaking PointEthan's Pov;The spotlight hit us like a punch.Bright.Cold.Too white the kind of light meant for exposure, not illumination.Yvonne flinched and shielded her eyes. I pulled her behind me, feeling her fingers curl into the back of my shirt, shaking with terror and exhaustion.A hum followed deep, mechanical and a sleek helicopter lowered closer to the platform’s upper deck. Its rotors kicked up sprays of saltwater, whipping our hair and clothes.A man stepped out.Lysander Vale.Tall.Refined.Suit immaculate, even here.Black gloves.Silver cuffs.A face as calm as a surgeon’s, with eyes dead enough to belong to a corpse.He walked with the confidence of someone who owned the world.And in his mind, he did.Danica whispered behind me, “That’s him.”Reina murmured, “We’re screwed.”Aiden whimpered, “I knew we should’ve turned ourselves in.”Evan didn’t move.Lysander reached the edge of the platform, his movements precise, almost elegant. A shark i
Last Updated: 2025-12-15
Chapter: 116CHAPTER 116: The Oil Platform TrapEthan's Pov;The ocean swallowed us.Waves slapped the hull. Fog wrapped around the boat like cold fingers. The engine rattled beneath Evan’s grip, coughing like it might die at any moment.We were barely ahead of Cole’s pursuit.Barely.Yvonne sat pressed against my side, fingers digging into my shirt. She was still shaking, her breaths small and uneven. Saltwater dripped from her hair, her lips pale from the cold. Every time the boat hit a wave, she winced, her ankle throbbing, ribs bruised, skin raw.“Are you warm enough?” I murmured.Her voice was thin. “Not really.”I pulled her closer. She let her head drop against my shoulder, clutching me tighter.Reina shouted over the engine, “I see lights up ahead!”Danica narrowed her eyes. “Platform. Abandoned.”Aiden groaned. “Oh great. Another abandoned death trap.”Derrick whimpered, “Why can’t we just… surrender? They want Ethan, not us!”Evan spun and smacked the back of Derrick’s head. “Say somethi
Last Updated: 2025-12-15
Chapter: 115CHAPTER 115: Run Until Everything BurnsEthan's Pov;Cole’s voice cut through the fog like a blade.“Round two, Ethan.”I spun around, pulling Yvonne behind me. She was still coughing water, still trembling, her fingers cold as ice against my arm.Evan lifted his gun. “Where is he?!”Reina scanned the shadows. “He’s moving. Fast.”Danica hissed, “He’s using the fog. He’s not working alone.”“No,” I growled. “He never does.”Cole had always been a parasite too weak alone, too smart to stay that way.My ribs screamed as I helped Yvonne stand. She tried walking but nearly collapsed again.“Easy,” I said, grabbing her waist.She swallowed. Her voice was thin and shaky: “Ethan… please don’t let him take me again.”I tightened my hold on her, jaw clenched. “He won’t touch you.”“You can’t promise that,” she whispered.“I just did.”Her eyes filled with terror and something else that hurt worse than my wounds.Trust.Pure, blind trust.Even after everything, she still looked at me like I cou
Last Updated: 2025-12-15
