Silver Dagger (Trigger Warning)*

"There was a special reason I have chosen you and not any one of them." The Vampire King shrugged. "At least I had enough mercy not to behead you like one of my past Empresses—I forgot her name already because she never mattered—when she dared to play me when she became an accomplice of one of the power-hungry Dukes in the Vampire Court."

There was a speculative gleam in the Vampire King' eyes which Luna didn't recognize. "It would almost be a pity if I shall once again be without a wife." 

"Your mere existence fires up my imagination." The Vampire King threw back his head as he savoured the roar of the wind in his ears blowing outside from the single window of the ivory tower." I'm afraid the other Kings would take notice."