That could definitely work! Sorry I didn't see this earlier!

Iella was Chances' Old Girlfriend, they were childhood friends and never really left each others side, they had planned to have a Fae styled wedding, and that's when the Lich ended up conning Chance into becoming a Vampire, by offering him a Potion that was said to make him the 'best husband', but instead it turned him part vampire and got him exiled from his forest domain.