Married To The Mad Vampire Lord novel Chapter 48

Chapter 48: The presence in the corridor

Belle did not have time to think about the kiss or to do anything after he gave her permission to go and get the ring outside. At first, she couldn’t believe her ears. She looked at him, and he repeated it and then said, "You don’t want it anymore?" with an arched brow.

She never knew she was capable of smiling at him and bowing in gratitude, and the moment he opened the door for her, she dashed out of it without looking back. She knew her way to the garden as she had studied the path and corners they had used to reach it.

Her dress was wet, and she had no cloak to keep her warm in the cold weather. All she could think about was the ring she would take and return to its owner one day. She dashed past Rav, who looked startled at the fact that she was running down the stairs without even being careful.

Rav watched her with a frown and was tempted to go and see where she was running to, but then he decided to go and see what she was running from upstairs first. He would have been worried had he not heard the excited thud of her heart and seen the smile on her face when she passed him. He made his way up, and before he could pass her chamber to go to his master’s, he found the door ajar and sensed Rohan’s presence inside.

Peeking his head into the room, he saw Rohan standing nonchalantly by the open French window with his hands folded behind his back as he watched something below. That made Rav clear his throat before stepping into the cozy chamber to report to his master.

"My Lord, I saw the lady running out just now. Did something happen?" he asked carefully as he walked to the window to see what his master was staring at below, but there was nothing. He frowned as he thought Rohan was having one of those spell moments where he would blank out of reality and stare at something unseen until he was tapped out of it. He was about to tap him out like he usually did when he saw a small figure dash into view, causing the master to chuckle softly all of a sudden.

So he was staring to wait for his wife to show? Rav thought to himself as he noticed the human arrive below, her blonde hair in disarray, panting as she began to look around the grounds as if she were searching for something there. He could see she was shivering, as the dress she wore, which was open at the back, was not enough to shield her from the cold that always descended on Nightbrook after any rain, even if it were just a drizzle.

What was she looking for in the Dead Garden, and why was his master watching so intently? Rav wondered with a frown on his face.

Nobody was allowed into the Dead Garden, but Rohan had allowed the human into it not once but twice now. This chamber had the view of the forbidden garden because it was Rohan’s in the past, and he watched his plants and trees from up here. Rav could not help but wonder what the human was searching for as she went down on her hands and knees without caring about the wet grass and puddles, as if to look carefully.

"Isn’t she adorable, Rav? Look at her, so serious about finding the ring I tossed away last night, after I told her to fetch it," came Rohan’s amused voice, filled with mirth, his lips pulled up. And Rav realized something the human searching outside had failed to realize before she ran out to get something the master had tossed away.

"It’s not there, is it?" Rav asked as he saw how desperately the lady was looking and moving her fingers across the grass as if the ring was hiding between the blades. He couldn’t help but feel sorry for her for believing the vampire.

Rav heard Rohan laugh softly. "She needed a distraction, and I gave her one. She has liquid in her eyes, and what better way to give her a distraction than to go searching for something that isn’t there? She’s too naive to believe I would give that scrap of silver back to her," he said with a tsk as he watched his wife below the window, not giving up, and that made his amusement slowly begin to fall as he realized she liked the human so much to not give up easily on looking for something he gave her.

Rav would have stopped the lady had he known what she was running out to do because he knew how his master would never give back anything he had deemed worthless and tossed away.

The drizzle of rain began to increase to a downpour, and still, the human wasn’t giving up, her figure blurring in the downpour.

"My Lord, it’s not good for a human to be in the rain for this long. She might catch a cold," Rav said with a tone of worry, as he knew his master had little to no knowledge about humans, whom he did not care about and would never bother to understand the risks to their health.

Belle, desperate to search for the exact location of the ring, did not want to give up, even though the pouring rain was making her search difficult. It wasn’t every day that one got lucky enough to be granted what they wanted in a world like this. If she gave up now, she might never have the chance to come here and get to keep the ring, and with her husband’s permission, she would even be able to wear it again.

Though she had not expected he would ever allow her to go and get the ring, she did not waste time letting him change his mind before she ran here blindly. And now that she was certain she had searched every corner where she swore she had seen the ring lying when they walked by, she was starting to doubt if it was really there.

The pouring rain was so cold it was biting down on her back fiercely, causing her teeth and bones to quiver uncontrollably. The rain would increase and decrease at the same time, and when it decreased again, she stood up on her feet, dragging her heavy dress up with her with so much difficulty to look up at her chamber window. That was when she saw Rav looking down at her.

Not only Rav, but also her husband, who held out his hand through the window as if to show her something. She squinted against the little drops of water.The distance from the top to the ground was great, but she could make out what he held in his fist even from down here. fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com

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