The Vampire's Personal Butler

When human Eli enters vampire Duke Adrian's gothic castle to settle his family's debt, he is forced into a blood servant contract that binds their wounds, memories, and danger together. Adrian is convinced Eli is the reincarnation of Selys—his lover who died three hundred years ago—and treats him as a replacement. But Eli refuses to be anyone's shadow, challenging every order and demanding to be loved as himself. As the Vampire Council sends hunters, blood arrays awaken, and an ancient blood demon stirs, the two are caught between control and resistance, desire and restraint. Eli discovers his own triple-bloodline secret; Adrian learns to ask before touching, to wait for consent, and to choose the living man over the ghost of the past. When Council enforcer Lucien manipulates memories and contracts to trap Eli as Selys' vessel forever, Eli burns the old portrait, tears up the servant pact, and forges a new equal bond on his own terms. By the end, the old master-servant contract is destroyed. Adrian no longer calls Eli "my little servant"—he pursues him as an equal, and Eli chooses him freely.