Married To The Mad Vampire Lord novel Chapter 174

Chapter 174: A way to help him_Part 2

Rav looked at the lady before him with silent tears on her cheeks, dark bruises on her face that made her look so unhealthily pale and small as she sat on the stair step with a lost expression. After everything he had told her, it was like she was trying to digest it all and come to terms with the dreadful fact that the duke was lost forever. It was something even he couldn’t seem to believe, as his lordship had been a man who wouldn’t easily fall prey to the rogues—those senseless beings.

Despite being very powerful the duke had a weakness hidden from anyone of his enemies, it was that corruption inside of him.

Not once had Rav thought the corruption would bring the duke down, and certainly not once had Rav thought the duke would care for someone enough to go head first into a battle of rogues, become vulnerable enough to be bitten into awakening his dormant corruption.

Had the king not sent Gaggers after him, all this wouldn’t have happened, as the rogues were easily killed. And in the duke’s hands their heads could be snapped in two like mere chickens.

Rav certainly couldn’t understand what exactly had happened during that hunt. What was it that caused his lordship to get bitten by rogues when he could have perfectly well fought them off?

Though Rav had these questions, he knew this wasn’t the moment to find the answers. But the truth remained that his lordship...

Rohan’s fate had been sealed. The corruption would destroy him.

No matter how much he thought about it, Rav couldn’t accept this truth, what made it even more difficult was the knowledge that there was absolutely nothing they could do to help Rohan now. It was hard for him as well, but he hoped the lady would think of her safety next and listen to him. He needed to take her away from here. Because if his lordship were here, this is what he would have wanted.

Though the king might not kill her, as he had finally gotten rid of the man he wanted, there was no mistaking she would be given to the slave house as one of the women to reproduce more humans the vampires sell out to the elites for blood. She was not safe here without the duke, Rav thought to himself as he gave her time to take in everything.

He had known what his lordship had gone through right from when he was born, as Rav was good at gathering information and had used his skills to do that when he was first brought into the castle and saw how they had sent the prince to that dungeon.

Nobody should go through the neglect he went through in the hands of the king and queen. And though now he couldn’t do anything to help his master, he could do something by protecting the lady with his life and sending her away to the safety of the manor his lordship had bought in her name in another kingdom far away from Nightbrook and Aragonia.

No one would find her there. She would be safe far away from here, and he would make certain of it.

His lordship had made sure everything was put in it, as if he knew a day like this would come, and now what Rav could do was to take the lady there.

"I want to be alone," Belle muttered softly as she got up to her feet.

"My lady," Rav called as she began to turn away from him. "Get your things ready, we will leave in an hour."

Belle’s throat clenched with emotions, and without replying or looking at Rav, she made her way back towards her chamber.

She walked like she was in a trance state, not knowing or looking at where she was going, and only walking. She entered her chamber in an unconscious movement and automatically closed the door behind her and bolted the lock to keep anyone who might come in to disturb her out.

Pressing her back against the smooth mahogany door, she looked around the chamber with tear-filled vision, unable to believe that Rohan had spent many lonely years in this same chamber. He had been neglected from the moment he was born into the world and left to die.

And to think that she thought she had it worst since childhood. His childhood sounded like the horror stories told to kids in Aragonia. She could not image anyone in his shoes. Her Rohan...

Looking around it with quivering lips, she slid down to the floor and then buried her head between her knees and began to cry.

"I am so sorry..." she sobbed brokenly. "If I hadn’t reacted the way I did, you wouldn’t have been bitten by those monsters. You let your guard down because of my reaction."

The look in his eyes at that moment now became a constant in her head, eating at her heart agonizingly.

She cried as she clutched her hand against the necklace around her neck, which he had given her, and she had held dear to her heart that she couldn’t afford to take it off even for a second.

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