Married To The Mad Vampire Lord novel Chapter 160

Chapter 160: Kill herself

Belle let out a scream and fell to the ground as the gunshot banged and echoed along with her scream.

For a moment, she thought she was shot and waited to feel the pain, her eyes shut tight, but then there was no pain at all, only the ringing in her ears that came from the loud sound of the gun.

She opened her eyes to see Cordelia right in front of her. The vampiress’s amused expression was gone, replaced with a deep scowl and angry lines at the sides of her red lips.

"Bitch!" Cordelia gritted out, then grabbed Belle’s ponytail and yanked her head back. "You’ve got the nerve to shoot that arrow when you’re at our mercy," she said, and then slammed the edge of her gun against Belle’s face.

Her head jerked to the side, and pain shot through every nerve in her face and neck from the hit. For a moment, she saw black in her vision.

Belle tightened her fingers against her crossbow again, her cheekbone throbbing with agonizing ache. Before she could recover from that pain, she was hit again—this time it was her head. She lost the grip on the bow from the second hit, and everything seemed to fade and flash back to her eyes.

The pain was so intense she thought she would pass out, but she didn’t. She could hear the excited voices of the others around her, but she couldn’t see them through the blur in her eyes when her head was yanked up by her hair again. She was forced to look into the dark red eyes of Cordelia.

"I should kill you and cut off your head, but I am too generous for that. I won’t kill you, human," Cordelia snarled as she leaned down and, with brutal force, sank her fangs into Belle’s upper arm, sucking at her blood with a strength that made Belle groan in pain and protest.

The bite was nothing like Rohan’s when he took her blood. In fact, it wasn’t even like the cut of a knife—it was like a nail dragging into her skin and drilling holes into her flesh. Belle refused to cry and tried to push the vampiress away, but to no avail.

The vampiress was using her vampire strength to hold her in place and to suck at her blood like she intended to draw out every little drop.

When Cordelia finally had her fill, she jerked her fangs out of the human’s skin in a way that dragged at her flesh and injured her further.

"For a human my cousin keeps, I thought your blood would be special, but it tastes like any other blood I have had. One would think you are special, that’s why he keeps you alive after the damn marriage."

"I will make you pay for this," Belle said through gritted teeth, agonizing tears in her eyes, but she never let them fall past her lashes. She did not want to die easily in the hands of this person, but her strength was no match. She was just a human, even though she was different from normal humans, she had no powers to fight.

"How will you make me pay?" she laughed, Belle’s blood smeared on her lips. "By telling my cousin that I bit and hit you, huh? Go ahead and tell him. He is probably dead by now somewhere around this forest or he would have come running when you screamed earlier. You can be surprised how far his ears could pick up things, and since he is not here, you have no one here. Absolutely no one." She touched her hand to Belle’s hair, and Belle jerked away from her touch.

Belle felt her heart squeeze painfully within her chest at the thought that something terrible might have happened to Rohan. She did not want to believe the vampiress’s words, but a cold knot of dread twisted inside her.

Something must have gone wrong, or else he would have come when she screamed. Still, Belle clung to a fragile hope, telling herself he probably hadn’t heard her scream because of the cotton in his ears.

She gripped her crossbow again, this time intending to whack it against the vampiress’s face. But as she lifted it to do that, her eyes locked with the vampiress who ordered, "Drop it."

Belle knew immediately that she was being compelled, and she froze at the attempt to whack her. The compulsion had no effect on her, of course, but she heard the double voice in her head and felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand straight up. It was similar to the feeling she had when Rohan had once tried to compel her.

As much as she wanted to hit the other woman, she could not give away that the spell did not work on her or she’d end up digging her grave further.

"I should kill you like I had planned, but I have a better way of making you die. You will fall right into your death—a more painful death than I could have given you. Stand up." She ordered with that same voice, and Belle obeyed even though she did not want to.

"Kill the bitch, Cordie!" gritted Stephanie, who still had an arrow lunged in her wrist and was in pain.

"Let her kill herself, it’s much more fun. She will die anyways."

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