Betrayed By The Hero, Loved By The Lord novel Chapter 252

Chapter 252: Gabriel’s mistake (2)

Gabriel put up a fight to get out of the guard’s hold, which only resulted in making his wound worse. "You bastard!" He spat. "You couldn’t fight me alone without your guards."

"I could, but you’re beneath me. Hold him steady," Xavier said, opening Gabriel’s shirt to check what wound was making him so weak. "You were stabbed with a holy weapon. You might not make it through the night."

Xavier was surprised that Gabriel wasn’t already dead.

Was his will to see Selene what kept him going?

"It wasn’t worth it for you to come here. If that wife you brought here is the one who stabbed you, you should have gone to the other guards or the palace. Not here to seek pity from Selene. You won’t get it," Xavier said, closing back up Gabriel’s shirt.

Seeing that it was a holy weapon which caused the pain, Xavier didn’t want Gabriel inside the estate. He didn’t know how close Selene needed to be to someone to heal them, and there was something to enjoy about Gabriel slowly dying from the mistake he had made.

"You’re wrong. Cassandra didn’t do this to me," Gabriel said, speaking the truth.

It was a man he didn’t know, so Xavier was making a wrong guess.

Gabriel was also puzzled as to how Xavier came to think Cassandra would be the one to injure him with a holy weapon. What had led Xavier to assume this? What did Xavier know about Cassandra that anyone else did not know?

Gabriel now believed Xavier was aware Cassandra was one of the enemies of the kingdom all along, but he did nothing to warn him.

In Gabriel’s eyes, Xavier’s hatred for him should not be more than finding out who was killing vampires. Xavier should have some of the blame concerning Cassandra.

"You are trying to figure out how much I know about your little wife. Why? Did you just find out you were sleeping with, or had you suspected it before she stabbed you? I am curious why she kept you alive," Xavier said, pressing his hand against Gabriel’s wound to hear him cry out.

"Cassandra didn’t do this to me-"

"If the priest she meets with is the one who stabbed you, it doesn’t matter. She is involved, and you are her husband. I’ve always wondered how well you knew her before you brought her here to get under Selene’s skin," said Xavier.

Xavier had always believed Gabriel grabbed the first woman who showed him a bit of attention and brought her home.

So far, Xavier wasn’t able to trace where Cassandra came from, so she might have been perfectly placed by Gabriel’s side, and Gabriel, blinded by hurting Selene, did not notice that something was off.

Xavier laughed. Gabriel never failed to do something foolish.

Instead of using his hand again, Xavier stood up and pressed his shoe down on Gabriel’s chest.

"You only now realise how much it wasn’t worth it to betray Selene? It took you being stabbed to realise what you lost?" Xavier asked, pressing down as hard as he could as he spoke. "I could have stabbed you if that was what you needed."

Gabriel tried to free his hands from the guard’s hold to get Xavier’s shoe off of him. He felt the need to throw up, and he was almost certain it would be blood coming out of his mouth.

"I didn’t know," Gabriel tried to defend himself.

"I’m glad you didn’t know. If you did, you wouldn’t have brought her here, and Selene might still be married to you. Your mistakes sometimes work in my favour. You lost all chances to fix your problems with Selene the moment you brought home that woman," said Xavier.

If anyone wanted to get Gabriel back, they would have to do so in blood. _{freёwebnovel.com}