Forced Bride Of The Vampire Lord

"Protecting you should be the responsibility of lord, not trouble my lady. If he would come to know that you are thinking this way, he would be hurt." since he would have been hurt if Hazel would have kept her problems to herself even if she was concerned about him.

His eyes widened when he realized he had conveniently replaced Rafael with him.

No! It was only because he was worried for the girl. He assured himself before nodding his head.

Hazel stared at the man who was having a self conflict with amusement before shaking her head too.

"That is not the point. I want to look for a girl but if I go by myself, then they might like her, could you look for me stealthily so that no one would know?" he could see how worried she was and nodded before he could think about it rationally.

His only goal was to kill Rafael or bring them closer but recently he felt that he was getting entangled in so many things he had never thought of.

"Thanks, her name is Anne and she has dark brown hair and eyes. She is an inch taller than me and has an innocent face.

She used to work in the annex building with me." annex building? He frowned when he heard so. Wasn't that building filled with a river last night and when he reached there, he noticed strong spells.

The witch must have been strong who had done that to protect the building. Could it be that she was getting looked after by a witch?

No! How could that be! He shook his head at the foolish thought. He was just trying to link her with them.

"I will look for her during the meal. All the staff of the palace had dinner together when their master retired for the night.

I would mention you there to see if anyone that matched your description would react or not.

But before that I am afraid they would be suspicious if I look at each one of them personally." he explained when her eyes were full of relief already.

"Yes, that would be enough, thank you. So, we are free for the whole day. What do you think, should we sneak out and see how the festival is going on?" When she was invited, she had thought that she would enjoy the festival for the first time.

Who would have thought that she would be left alone in the palace to roam around.

Even Rafael did not ask her even once if she wanted to join him for the day.

"Anything you say would be my command, my lady. You are my master, I will sacrifice my life for you?" the words came out naturally this time. He used to feel irritated when he had to show his loyalty to a human even if she had saved his life once.

He did not notice how her smile had started to affect him differently and his emotions were getting entangled with hers.

"Then we shall go. I have a few coins to spend on a carriage and food and I know one passageway in the annex building which is used during emergencies.

Though I haven't used it before, it should be fine." no! He did not want her to see the condition of the annex building.

He was glad that she had decided to go out so that she would not hear any gossip about it from maids.

He did not know why but he did not want her to hate witches like others do.

They were badly rumored when they had never hurted anyone. They only want their revenge from Rafael and their freedom to live freely.

If he would not have been there, they would have towns where they could live freely just like humans.

But now they were hunted like animals and had to spend their lives in hiding. Their kids never felt safe and have fear in their eyes whenever they walk in the streets under those long and dark cloaks.

"No! That would be suspicious, my lady. The annex building is guarded by knights. They would notice if you went there but did not come out for long." he could see her eyes widened and then the brightness that had filled them a bit ago, slowly dying.

She felt silent for a moment as if she was thinking of how to get out of here without being noticed.

He was about to suggest to her to behave like a maid whose duty had ended and then walk through the back door from where the servants enter and leave when he saw that her eyes were sharpening.

The aura of a queen returned which could not stay hidden for long. She had that immense light that covered her whole body and made others blinded and forced them to lower their head.

"Who cares? Since I am the queen. I should have the right to visit the town and enjoy the festival.

Go and ask for a carriage and if they deny, use the one we have brought here. I am not a criminal that would leave the palace while hiding my face. The queen would leave with pomp and show she deserved it!" see! That was what he was talking about.

Even if she had decided to stay low key just a few minutes ago, she just could not do that.

He laughed and nodded his head when she cursed all of them to worry her so much under her breath and walked  towards her room to get ready.

He could feel the eyes full of hatred of all the servants around her, yet he did not see him getting affected even a bit. So, she would be fine, even if he would leave her alone for a bit. Right?

With that thought, he turned to arrange the carriage for her when he noticed a strange silver light coming out of the annex building.

"There are witches in there!"