Married To The Mad Vampire Lord novel Chapter 165

Chapter 165: Farewell

"I am someone who did not die when I should have died..." came his hoarse voice. "I have always been homesick for arms that never held me when I needed them then. I became who I was to protect myself. Still, I never regretted any moment in my entire life, not even when that incident happened many years ago with you—because if it hadn’t happened, I’d never have known who you were. The only moment I ever regret in my entire existence is this very moment. I wish you never had to see me this way...

He breathed in roughly and then made an attempt to smile as he looked at her, his head turning to the side, his red eyes glimmering darkly beneath the shadow of pain.

"I want you to know that you are mine," he whispered, a bitter smile carved on his unrecognizable face. "You have always been mine. Only mine. Remember that. But I also want you to know that I never intended to hurt you then... and certainly not now. I... I am sorry."

Belle’s eyes welled with tears that rolled down her cheeks like a broken dam, her throat working as it burned with emotions. She watched as he grabbed his head and cried out like a wounded animal, a cry so loud it broke and gripped something in her heart, twisting it, tearing through it, until it ached like it was bleeding inside her chest.

He frantically used his finger to push at something in his ears, and she looked towards it.

All motion seized her as she noticed that inside his ears were the cotton she had put in for him to block the noise. It was still there, only it was bloody.

He tried to push at the cotton like the noise was unbearable, and at that, she realized he was still her Rohan, the same man she had worried endlessly for and loved with everything in her heart.

As he knelt there with broken wings and a bloody body, trying to speak but unable to, she felt something restore in her heart, and something lifted from her eyes to make her see through the unfamiliar man before her.

How could she turn her back on him? And how could she still feel this way towards him when he looked the way he did now?

How could her heart still call out to a creature who had mercilessly almost killed her as a child and ruined what she would have had with her parents? Because of him, she had no chance of experiencing a better childhood. She cried herself to sleep every single night as a child because her mother would not hold her and call her sweet names.

Because of him, her father thought of her as a bad omen and locked her up in a room for days without food. Her father, who had held her and kissed her cheeks and called her "my sweet angel," looked upon her with resentment and disgust.

Because of him, she never got to sleep with both eyes closed at night. She was seen as ugly, with a scar that had taken away her brow.

Because of him...

"Isa..." he groaned out her name again as he began to crawl away from her direction this time around. "If things go well, I shall disappear for a couple of years and there will be no way to get hold of me... and if things go bad, this will be the last time we’ll ever meet again. You promised not to hate me. Don’t go back on your promise. I sincerely apologize for bringing you into this dangerous world and not being able to stand with you until we see it through...

"I have always been a monster and will always be that. Farewell, my heart."

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