Forced Bride Of The Vampire Lord

"She did not! She needs rest." he refused in a beat when Edward sighed.

"My lord! I did not want to go against you but the whole empire is burning and the lady is needed to bring peace." his grave and urgent voice tensed Rafael too whose eyes flickered dark.

"She is pregnant with my child. And I did not want my wife or child to suffer in the fire of the war. The war had nothing to do with us." he stood up and stared back at the man with a cold look in his eye.

They both kept staring at each other with no one to back down when Edward banged the table with force.

"I can not understand you, Rafael. You are placing the whole world just to save a woman? It is not like you can not have a child again or your child would definitely be in danger." As the words left the mouth of Edward, he felt a sharp pain in his jaws and his body flew to the other corner of the room.

He did not see Rafael moving but looking at him standing where he was standing earlier, he felt agonized.

"She is the woman I have loved for two decades and that is my first child. If you dared to disrespect them again, I would burn the whole empire to ashes myself so that you did not need to worry about saving it anymore." he threatened when Edward knew that he was serious and shut his mouth.

He did not speak again but that did not mean that he agreed with him.

As Rafael picked up the papers and walked out, he followed him, jerking his dislocated shoulders.

They walked towards the hall filled with crowd. Many men and women were sitting in the chairs discussing matters that cost the life of everyone standing.

When Rafael walked closer, they all paused and stared at him.

"The council had not agreed with the promises your wife had made." said a woman with a scowl, "how can council admit witches? And humans never worked hard enough to get a post equal to us. But aren't there many humans working in the council? They should be happy that we are giving them chances." Everyone sitting on the table nodded their heads, agreeing with the woman who had a smug look on her face.

"We have made you lord, Rafael with hopes that you would keep everything under your control but the balance is losing. And if that happened…" she paused but her grim eyes and cold look said the rest.

He sat there leisurely. Earlier anger or seriousness nowhere to be seen when Edwrd sighed. This was worse.

"You made me lord?" he chuckled with the tilt of his head, "you seem to be having a misunderstanding here. I am lord because I am unparalleled. I have power no one could stand again and now my wife is the dark witch, the strongest witch with the birth of a human.

So, as a good husband, of course i would agree with her idea to let other take part in the council. And you must know if I support a decision, no one can refuse it." Edward closed his eyes with despair. He knew that Rafael would do this. That was why he needed hazel.

The words brought an uproar. After three seconds of deafening silence, everyone started complaining at once but Rafael looked unfazed.

"That is not it. I will personally go and check the land and divide it among three empires. The queen of the witches would be Anne. The queen of the humans is already my wife and I am the lord of the vampires." he added leisurely as he stood up and went out to address the aggrieved public when the council head exchanged their glances.

"That is a joke! We have worked all our life for the council and now we are getting this in exchange." the woman shouted menacingly as their faced turned darker.

"We should stop them or our powers would be…" Edward took a step back and tried to be invisible when they all plot against their lord and sighed.

The war had just started.

Hazel opened her eyes after taking rest for a long time when she noticed that there was no one in the room which was strange.

She stood up and looked around. Opening her door, she peeked out when the passage was empty too.

She frowned. Her hands started glowing unconsciously and her eyes truend cautious. But even after walking for long, she did not find anything suspicious.

It was the middle of the night without moon, so only her fingers were the sole source of light making it hard to see.

She took out a dagger and threw it towards her back when she heard the whoosh of air. But the dagger cut the air and landed on the wall.

She took out a few more daggers out of thin air and threw them all around her. A few on the left, a fww in fret of her and others around her back with the speed of lightning. Each of it cut the air and then fell on the ground or hit the wall but she was not able to find anyone.

She shook her head, maybe she was being over sensitive. It might be possible that the maids were just taking break. It was only after looking at worried Rafael.

She turned to walk back to her room as she felt exhausted again. Anne had told her that her powers would take some time to recover. It would be better that she takes rest.

Just as she entered in her room and closed the door, she heard the sound of moving behind her back and turned instantly only to see a masked man sitting on her sofa.

She paused.

"Hello there! I am glad to see you again. Last time i forgot to give my introduction so i personally came to meet you again."