Elliot and Damian have been married for three years—but their wedding has been postponed three times. Damian never eats with him, never steps into sunlight, and his paper-cut heals in seconds. Elliot thought he married a workaholic with secrets. Until he opened the fridge and found blood bags. Until Damian, starving and losing control, bit his neck. But Elliot didn't run. He stood in front of Damian and told Bryce "you shut up too." He looked into a live camera and said: "He isn't human, but he never hurt me." On their wedding day, he walked into the church with Damian—even with photos of Damian's red eyes and blood-drinking plastered outside, even as the crowd shouted "monster." Damian finally stopped saying "stay away from me." He held their newborn daughter Hazel, knelt before Elliot, and said with a shaking voice: I want to learn to be a husband who comes home every day—who lets you yell at me and lets everyone know you're mine.
