Married To The Mad Vampire Lord novel Chapter 31

Chapter 31: Overfeeding

Cordelia, seeing that her cousin was staring at the human who was blushing earnestly and shyly, smiled halfheartedly and then said, "What kind of punishment did you give her, cousin Rohan? Perhaps I could take it to make my slaves more obedient without having to hit them all the time. You are always good at coming up with things, especially punishment, and I love to learn from you."

Rohan did not reply immediately. Instead, he moved all the food he thought his wife liked, since she had reached for them, to her front and let her eat by herself, sparing her innocent heart from thudding or ripping out of her ribcage at the rate it was beating.

Then he dusted his fingers and casually leaned back in his seat, bringing his blood wine with him as he ran his tongue around his teeth to get rid of the food he had enjoyed eating, much to his bunny’s exasperation. And because he did not know what discomfort and embarrassment felt like or why people felt it, he simply had no reason not to tell his noisy, curious cousin what she asked for, but not before he made her uncomfortable for glaring at his bunny just now. He stared at her forehead smiling, and Cordelia shifted uncomfortably in her seat.

Just like everyone else, she was not immune to his presence. She had just gotten used to it by trying to please him in ways she thought he would like. If it was difficult to look Rohan in the face, it was completely impossible to meet his eerie, dark gaze. No one knew just how he had gotten such eyes that were different from everyone else’s, but it was said that when they fixed on you, a man felt like his skin had been flayed open and his darkest sin exposed. No one had met his eyes and lived to tell the experience of what they truly saw.

Sighing, he finally replied to her, "I don’t believe you’d like to use such a method for your slaves, my dear cousin. Not unless you plan to take one of the male slaves as your lover, you shouldn’t ask me what I did to my wife as a punishment."

Belle, who was so aware of their conversation, bit down on her bottom lip as she let out a breath she did not realize she was holding in. She had thought her husband would speak of what he had done to her with his cousin, but what she did not know was that his flippant words had been understood by the vampiress, whose smile had fallen, and her eyes had darkened, though she tried to mask it with a laugh.

Rohan watched with satisfaction as Cordelia’s fake polite eyes dimmed. He then turned to his wife, who tried to make herself invisible and was moving a few of the untouched plates of food he had put before her aside, causing him to narrow his eyes at her actions.

"You can’t leave that out, little bunny. You are to finish all the food. You reached for them, and I went through the trouble of arranging them for you. You didn’t think I did that just so you could choose from them, did you?" His lips curled into a smirk. "Eating well is part of my training for your weak muscles, you need to be strong, you look like the next strong wind can swipe you away. Now, eat up."

He moved the plates of food back in front of her and smiled charmingly. "We’ll take a stroll once you finish, to help you digest it faster." To him, she looked too thin for all the fun he planned to have with her.

Belle stared at the array of food arranged in front of her on the table and suddenly felt nauseous. Though she knew she had become leaner than the average woman because her mother had only made her eat once a day before the wedding so she could fit into her dress, her stomach had become used to small meals. She couldn’t imagine finishing half of it, even if she had been starved for weeks. She had only reached for them earlier because he kept snatching whatever she touched without explanation, not because she wanted to eat everything.

Was he planning to feed her to her grave? Because if she actually finished all this, she might end up there sooner!

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