A Vampire’s Pain by Anne T. Thyssen

Gabriel never thought he would find his mate. For years, after helping Dominic get back his throne, he has tried his hardest to forget the hole in his chest. He knows that a mate can fill it, but as the years go by he doesn’t think he will ever find her. At a party celebrating Dominic’s and Lara’s one year together, he runs into a vampire whom he cannot take his eyes off but things aren’t as easy as just shouting mate.
Valeri experienced pain like no other when she was just a young woman. She was kidnapped and abused. Her brother saved her from the barbarians, but she was never the same afterwards. Hundreds of years after and finally getting back her sanity, she decides she wants to meet the queen. The half-blood, who defied the council to be with the king. She admires the queen’s courage, but her brother, Damon, is very overprotective and she must sneak out to the party celebrating the king’s and queen’s first anniversary. There she runs into the one person, her brother simply cannot stand, and whom he will never allow her to be with.