SABLE OATH: THE WITCH WHO WAS CLAIMED BY NIGTH

Elena Anderson thought turning eighteen would change her life

She just didn't think it would end the one she knew.

"You're not human "

That was how her mother chose to say it .

No build up ,No warning.

Just truth-dropped like something too heavy to hold any longer.

Elena laughed at first.

Then she saw her mother's face.

And stopped.

"You're a pure blood witch ", her mother continued.

The words should've sounded ridiculous.

Instead, they felt familiar.

Like something inside Elena had been waiting to hear them.

"Okay," she said slowly. "And you waited eighteen years to tell me because...?"

Her mother hesitated.

That hesitation changed everything.

"Because once you know," she said quietly, "you can't go back."

A chill ran down Elena's spine.

"Go back from what?"

Her mother stepped closer.

"You weren't just born into magic," she said.

A pause.

"You were promised with it."

Elena frowned. "Promised to who?"

Silence.

Then-

"To a vampire."

The room went still.

Elena stared at her.

"No."

"It was done before you were born."

"No," Elena repeated, stepping back. "That's not possible."

Her mother didn't argue.

Didn't soften it.

Just said-

"He's coming for you tonight."

And right on cue-

the lights went out.

Darkness swallowed the room.

The air turned cold.

Heavy.

Wrong.

Elena's breath caught.

Because she felt it.

A presence.

Not entering-

already there.

A voice came from the shadows.

Low. Calm. Certain.

"Eighteen years," it said.

A pause.

"I was beginning to think you wouldn't tell her."

Elena turned slowly.

And saw him.

Watching.

Waiting.

Claiming.

Her heart slammed against her chest.

"I don't belong to anyone," she said, forcing the words out.

His eyes met hers.

Unmoving.

Unchallenged.

"No," he said softly.

A pause.

"But your blood does."

And just like that-

Elena realized something she could never undo:

She wasn't being introduced to a new world.

She was being collected by it...