Married To The Mad Vampire Lord novel Chapter 69

Chapter 69: The evening of the banquet

When Belle woke up the next morning, she was alone in bed. She didn’t immediately get up and stared sightlessly at the space beside her where Rohan had slept last night and held her. She had slept the rest of the night with not a single nightmare. It was strange, the feeling of safety she had around him. If it weren’t for the lingering scent of her husband on the sheet, she would have thought he had not been with her last night.

With the help of Farrah, Belle did her morning routine and ate her breakfast alone in the room, as Rohan was said to have gone out yet again. She was too dreadful about the evening banquet to dwell on where he must have gone again. And honestly, after what they had done the night before and how she had shamelessly told him to pet her down there—not just that, he had gone on and used his mouth this time—she didn’t think she was ready to meet him. She hadn’t been embarrassed last night, but this morning was another thing, as when she was bathing and was washing, everything had come back to her in vivid clarity.

It was a great thing she had the impending banquet to distract her from last night and from him.

Whatever she did that morning was absentmindedly, as her thoughts and focus were on the quickly approaching evening and the ringing hall clock that ticked every hour of the day, and with the tick of the hours, her heart became more dreadful of the evening event that loomed over her like an impending doom.

She couldn’t even relax enough to read the book she had been reading last night, nor think about anything else. She paced the chamber when the sky began to show signs of darkening. Oh, how she hoped she could refuse to go. Should she have told Rohan last night that she didn’t want to go?

Right when that thought came to her mind, the maids came in with her dress and jewelry, hurrying her, as it seemed the royal carriage that would take them to the castle had arrived sooner than expected.

Belle had never been this nervous in her life. Perhaps she had been—on her wedding day—because that day was the worst of all the anxiousness she’d ever experienced. She kept asking Farrah about the royal vampires and what they were like, as the girl seemed to know so much and was happy to tell her.

There are two princes and two princesses. Each of them from separate mothers, as vampire women were not as fertile as humans, and childbirth came to them only once a decade or even four decades. Some never had it in them to birth a child and would live their lives without an offspring.

When the current king took the throne, he married and took on concubines—as many as there were vampire women who were fertile—and four of them, including his wife, gave him a child. Two girls, two boys. Farrah explained, because it was so important to continue the bloodline, as vampires were decreasing with the generations.

One of the princes had been married, and also one of the princesses, which left only two of them who were yet to get married. It was very crucial for them to also have an offsprings, but unfortunately, none of the married royals have had any child even after being married for years now, and that worried the king, as without a child, the throne might not fall to his children.

"If the vampire women can’t give birth, why not let them marry humans?" Belle asked.

Farrah chuckled softly. "It’s an abomination to have a halfbreed royal child. I haven’t seen or heard of any halfbreeds in a long time because the woman barely survives birthing a night creature as a human. The child always turns out to crave blood, and when the human can’t have it, it feeds on its mother instead. There were cases where the woman survived, but the child is born with traits that weren’t the same as the normal vampires. They turned out to be weak compared to the normal vampires, and some have human lifespans even though they consumed blood.

"So you see, my lady, no royal would let a halfbreed carry on their bloodline, and I have also heard that it is against the law to sire halfbreeds or for a vampire to marry a human. But then, I guess now Lord Dagon is an exception."

Belle digested the information given to her. No wonder the vampire king wasn’t willing to offer a royal marriage, because he didn’t want his son to marry a human. Was that why they had chosen the mad vampire as the groom? He was the only one related to the royals, but whatever he did would not directly affect the royal bloodline, as he was no longer the heir to it.

In Aragonia, regardless of whatever happened, as long as the rightful heir was still alive, the king’s brother could never have the throne. But it seemed it was different here, and Rohan was no longer in line and had no right to it.

According to Farrah, she would be treated like a princess as well, as the banquet was in her honor and she had nothing to worry about, but those words went through Belle’s ears without giving the effect of assuring her of the vampires she would have to mingle with in the royal castle.

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