Married To The Mad Vampire Lord novel Chapter 221

Chapter 221: Payment_Part 1

While Rohan was deeply worried about his wife and focused on taking the medicine to her, he did not realize that the servants had twisted the reason for him being in the study with the maid. The two maids who had seen him there could not keep their mouths shut, and the moment they stepped out to take the laundry, they began to spread the news among the other maids in the house—talking among themselves and whispering about how Dayna had slept with the master.

It wasn’t an uncommon thing in noble households for beautiful maids to be taken by their masters. What made this particular case shocking was that Dayna had always bragged about how different she was from the other girls. She had claimed more than once that she would rather be thrown out than give herself to any man who wasn’t Ben. fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓

"Oh my, she gave herself to the master?! Ben isn’t going to like this," were the words murmured by many of the maids who heard what had supposedly happened.

As the servants gathered in the kitchen, whispering gossip and plotting how to find Ben and tell him about his cheating woman, though none of them knew where he had been assigned within the manor, they were still discussing how to locate him when Rav strode into the kitchen. He found six out of the eight maids employed in the manor huddled together, gossiping.

"What’s going on in here?" he demanded, his sudden entrance startling them. They all pulled back from their circle in surprise, not expecting Rav to appear, especially since he had been outside moments ago, clearing snow from the front porch.

They quickly bowed. "N-nothing, sire."

Rav’s brows furrowed in displeasure. "You left your duties to come and gossip after I’ve already warned that anyone caught doing so will lose their job? It seems none of you take warnings seriously until consequences are enforced," he chided, his sharp gaze moving from one frightened maid to another as they kept their heads bowed in shame.

Had this been Nightbrook, the human maids there would not have dared to gossip after receiving such a warning. They knew disobedience could cost them their lives. But these humans here were stubborn, quick to break rules without fear or respect. Rav had warned them the very day he took charge that gossiping would not be tolerated, yet they never listened.

"We—we weren’t gossiping, sire," the maid named Katie stammered. "We were only talking about the weather and getting the laundry done with hot water." She then nudged the girl beside her, urging her to back up the lie. Right on cue, the others all nodded.

"Yes, sire."

Rav wasn’t so easily fooled. He had heard the subject of their gossip well before reaching the kitchen door—his hearing was not that of a human, after all, but a vampire’s. They had been talking about the master and that maid, Dayna, who, as he’d just learned, was the woman of that talkative Ben.

If such gossip reached that blonde, irritating fool, Rav couldn’t predict what rash thing Ben might do to attract unwanted attention to them all.

That was why he decided to wipe the rumors clean before they could leave the room and spread beyond the walls, all the way to the stables. However, one of the maids who had witnessed the scene of Rohan leaving the study with Dayna was not among them at that moment, as she had left to attend to other duties. Unfortunately, Rav was unaware of this and proceeded to compel only the ones present.

He stepped toward each servant one by one. "Look up," he ordered the first.

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