Cyprus: Future's Promise — Joleene Naylor

Short Story. Not for children. The eighth in a collection about vampires in the elite “police force”. Roughly ten years before Cyprus joins the ranks of the Executioners, he's guard at the Stronghold in Munich, Germany, where he falls in love with Sadihra. The German equivalent of an Executioner, not only does she outrank him, but she's already taken. However, Cyprus has something on his side that no one realizes...