Betrayed By The Hero, Loved By The Lord novel Chapter 174

Chapter 174: Dangerous game (2)

"The queen enters."

"What does she want now?" Darius muttered.

Darius leaned back on his chair, watching the servants rush out of the room as Vivienne entered. He noticed her eyes searching the room for a woman she believed was in his company.

How disappointing it had to be for her that he was alone.

"What do I owe for this visit? After our last talk, I thought you would want to avoid me. What has your father sent you to do now?" Darius wondered. He still failed to believe this was all Vivienne’s idea.

"You must stop thinking this has anything to do with my father and our last talk did not end so badly. I thought we had a little understanding that I was not going to sit quietly anymore. I have a little gift for you. Consider it as me making peace between us," Vivienne said, taking a seat on the table before him.

Darius didn’t like the sound of this. "A gift? The last time you said you had a gift for me, you threw something at my head. I am not in the mood to argue with you. I have urgent matters to take care of."

Vivienne looked down at the papers spread across the table and noticed most of them were about attacks. "I am the queen," she said after Darius started to collect them. "I should know what occurs in my kingdom. Wasn’t this brought to our attention long ago? It is getting out of hand now."

Darius continued to collect all of the papers to put them away. "It is under control. This is simply another reason why I should go forward with my plan to round all of them up and put them in a closed area so they don’t live amongst us. We could take their blood as we like."

"Are you sure about that? There are far too many of them for you to group them in one place. It sounds like we will be on the verge of another war if this continues. No one wants a war," said Vivienne.

"It won’t come to war because, like the past, we will control them. You don’t need to worry your pretty little head about this-"

"I must worry since I am a pureblood and a royal. It is clear who their next targets will be. This is why there are so many questions about you as our king. You must handle this matter urgently to show that your place on the throne should not be questioned. Why can’t you see that is the answer?" Vivienne wondered.

Vivienne knew Darius was clueless but to let this matter go on for so long placed him as a bigger fool.

Vivienne continued to say, "They will notice you do not care about the mixed-bloods they are attacking and then move on to purebloods. It will be hell for you if the purebloods start to get upset. You will lose your place as the king and you should know very well no one in this town will let you forget."

"I said I wasn’t in the mood to argue with you and you do this," Darius said, annoyed he thought they wouldn’t fight.

"I didn’t come here to argue with you and I am not arguing with you now. I am trying to help you, Darius. If you get replaced as king then I am no longer the queen. I’ll be the wife of a man removed from the throne. I cannot do this now," Vivienne muttered, touching her face.

Trying to talk sense into Darius wasn’t an easy task since he always believed his way was right

Vivienne hoped her father or anyone else keeping track of the attacks would put pressure on Darius to deal with this matter sooner.

"This isn’t what I came here to do. I said I had a gift for you and I meant it. She is waiting for us so we mustn’t be late," Vivienne said, standing up from the table to walk with Darius.