Married To The Mad Vampire Lord novel Chapter 29

Chapter 29: The second cousin

Lady Cordelia beamed at Rohan when she came to stand before him. Without the courage to hug him, she bowed her head and then said, "I wanted to come to you all this while, but you know how Papa is. He didn’t want me exposing myself to a place like the asylum. How have you been?"

Belle stood to the side, watching their interaction, where her husband looked bored and totally uninterested in the excited female vampire before him. Lady Cordelia was a very beautiful woman, Belle noticed, with black hair that was tied up in a bun with delicate flowery pins that matched her earrings and necklace. She wore a black gown that made her pale, unblemished skin even more paler and glowy, and her lips were as red as her dark red eyes, which made her lineage as a pure-blooded vampire evident when she turned briefly to Belle, who stood at the side with her left hand gripping her right elbow in a self-conscious way.

Rohan did not reply to his cousin’s words and instead walked up to the head of the long table, sat down, then gestured for Belle to come and sit on his right side.

The table was so long, Belle thought it would fit more than thirty people, and the end of the other side was more in the shadowed side. On it were a line of different kinds of food, from steaks to vegetables, ham, French rolls, and toast, and many more others that made her mouth water. On one side were fresh apples, pears, and berries. She had not thought vampires had human meals, and the table had many more than that.

Belle was walking to where Rohan patted on his right side of the table when Cordelia’s smile slightly wavered as she seemed to finally take note of the human in the hall. She had been too excited to see Rohan that she had failed to notice that a lowly human was there and must obviously be the so-called wife from the human land everyone had been speaking of—who was married to Rohan.

She watched as the blonde human walked past her with a small bow of greeting, and Cordelia gritted her teeth at the fact that Rohan had not acknowledged her presence and instead was beckoning for his wife to come and sit beside him.

Though Cordelia was well aware that he was married to a human, she had believed she would not come and see the human in the castle. From what she knew, her second cousin was good at putting these lowly beings right where they belonged. Not giving up, she smiled brightly again and went to sit on the seat to his left without invitation.

"Cousin Rohan, you did not introduce me to the lady," Cordelia said with a polite smile that, if one did not know her, might be believed to be genuine.

Belle was reaching for her plate to place her food on it, as she couldn’t wait to start eating, when the vampiress asked that question of her husband, causing her to look up towards him to make the introduction. She couldn’t help but wonder who the woman was to him, but instead of making the introduction, he smoothly reached out his hand towards her, took the plate she had placed in front of her, and put it in front of him, taking her aback.

Cordelia watched as Rohan took away the human’s plate in front of her, along with the food she tried to reach for. When she attempted to take another plate of ham, he snatched it from her hand without so much as glancing at her and placed it in front of him. He carefully cut it with his knife and used his fork to bring it to his parted, gorgeous lips, where they closed around the fork, and he began to chew.

Cordelia smiled while Belle frowned at his actions. Good, he would deny the human food and starve her to death, that was so much like the man she knew. He would make her watch them eat. She had been worried for a moment that her cousin was going to take this marriage seriously and treat a human as his equal—letting her dare eat with him on the same table.

Rohan did not look away from his plate of food in front of him as he picked up the omelet Belle wanted to reach for again, cut it, and brought it to his mouth once more. He finished the omelet in two bites. He then began to add avocado spread between the toast he had taken yet again from his wife while replying to Cordelia for the first time since she had started talking.

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