He Lived on My Blood, Now He Bleeds

Marian Sinclair was the Highland Priestess, and she left her people for a man. To bring Charles Langley back from the edge she gave up years of her own life, then fed him her blood essence every day for three years. It hollowed her out. Her face aged past her years while he recovered and rose, and once he had rank and the General's Manor to his name he brought another woman into the house, put Marian aside and had her thrown out. She survived that. She went back to the Highlands, where they knew what she was, and took up her position again. Charles and the Langley family came to the door after her, kneeling and asking for help, having found something they could not fix without her. She is not the wife who swallowed it the first time. Everything she handed over she now intends to take back, and she means the people who did it to her to pay properly for it.