Married To The Mad Vampire Lord novel Chapter 49

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Chapter 49: Treasures

She did not stop until she reached her chamber and slammed the door shut behind her as if to shut out whatever ghost had been following her. She was stepping away from the door backwards when she heard a voice from behind her that made her almost jump out of her cold skin.

"My Lady, are you all right?" came Farrah’s concerned voice as she stood by the bed, holding a folded set of underwear and a clean dress in her hands, and stared at the lady who had rushed into the room, looking as pale as a sheet.

Belle quickly composed herself and sighed in relief when she saw the maid in her room. Mustering back her senses, she nodded her head. "Yes, I am fine," she muttered as she walked further into the chamber, her dress leaving wet trails behind her.

She stood off to the side so she wouldn’t drench the rug in the middle of the chamber. She couldn’t help but wonder who had been in the corridor. Was there another person in the castle who wore a cloak apart from Rav?

Farrah smiled as she noticed the lady had avoided stepping on the rug and creating a mess that would take her more work to clean. But seeing the distressed look on the lady’s pale face, she spoke as she gestured toward the bath. "Your bath has been set according to his lordship’s orders. You will catch a cold if you don’t get out of the wet dress, my lady." She put the dress away on the bed and walked up to help Belle out of her wet dress.

Belle frowned, "His lordship? Where did you see him?" she asked as the girl walked behind her to help her remove the dress that had been half removed by Rohan.

"Sir Rav called me from the kitchen to come and attend to you, but I saw his lordship going towards the third-floor corridor on my way here," remarked Farrah as she pulled down the wet dress, leaving Belle in her petticoat.

"Is... is that where his chamber is located?" she asked, then bit her lower lip for asking.

"I do not know where his lordship’s chamber is in the castle, my lady. I barely even know the way to our quarters sometimes—it’s a very huge place! But my work is to be your handmaid from now on!" she remarked with an excited smile that made her green eyes brighten and her oval-shaped, beautiful face glow under the golden light of the chamber. "I have always wanted to serve a lady in a castle, and it will be an honor to serve you." She bowed her head, causing Belle to smile.

If Farrah had been in Aragonia, Belle thought, she would have had men swarming around her like bees for her beauty. It was reassuring to have a human with an innocent, kind face to serve her, she mused as she exchanged a few words with the girl.

As Farrah gathered her wet dress to take away, Belle walked toward the divider where her bath was waiting, not waiting for Farrah, as she was not used to being washed by maids.

But without Farrah’s jolly voice to distract her, Belle couldn’t help but wonder who the cloaked figure had been. If Farrah claimed that Rav had gone to the kitchen and Rohan had headed toward the third-floor corridor, nowhere near this one, then who had been standing there?

Deciding not to think so much about the cloaked person, she focused on getting herself warm when she suddenly sneezed. She took off her petticoat along with all the other layers and got into the hot water in the wooden bathtub.

She sighed in relief as the warmth of the water began to melt away the tension in her muscles from the cold and from the kiss that had ignited yet again another sinful flame in her body that seemed to burn with the thoughts of his lips against hers. He had touched her with his mouth so softly that she couldn’t help but be surprised by the softness of a cold man like him.

It was when Belle reached to touch the necklace on her neck out of habit and realized it was his diamond one that was there, that she clenched her teeth and cursed him. She shouldn’t think about his kiss and should only think about hating him for being a liar and a manipulator!

Belle, you are not to think about his kiss, you are not to think about him in any way that isn’t anger or fear. That kiss means nothing to you! Do you understand? He took away Jamie’s ring, think only about that and how to get it back!

When you love someone else, you do not think of carnal pleasure with another you do not love!

While Belle was scolding herself in the bath and taking longer than she should, in another part of the castle, Rohan and Rav walked into one of the many chambers in the castle with a lamp in each of their hands as the evening was approaching faster because of the rain.

The chamber was different, it had no bed, nor was it a furnished bedchamber. Instead, the walls were lined with shelves like a library, but there were no books. Instead, each shelf held a sealed black box. The boxes were arranged neatly in a row, with only a few empty spaces where boxes had yet to be placed.