Married To The Mad Vampire Lord-Chapter 237: The unexpected guest_Part 2

Belle’s frown deepened at those words, and she hurried her footsteps to go and see what was going on, as she could hear harsh whispers coming from outside immediately after she stepped down to the foyer. She couldn’t help but wonder who it was looking for her here, and when she stepped outside, she was met with Rav talking in a harsh whisper to a woman in a long purple cloak, its hood covering half of her face and revealing only her red lips and nose.

As if sensing Belle’s arrival, the woman turned slowly to the door and then brushed past Rav, who quickly gripped her elbow, but she yanked it away and then said hurridly,

"Isabelle, it’s me, Evenly. I need your help."

Every muscle in Belle’s body froze for a moment at those words. Evenly? How was that possible?

"You’re... alive?" she whispered in disbelief, because until now, Belle had believed the woman had died because of her that day in Grimvale.

Being a coward, and ashamed of her failure to save Lady Clifton, Belle had not, for even a moment, allowed herself to think about the woman again since they arrived in Bimmerville.

She had, in a way, tried to convince herself that whatever had happened in Nightbrook was nothing more than a nightmare, one she was determined to forget in order to live the life of her dreams here with her new family, done with seeking revenge like she had sworn to against those vampires. To seek revenge would mean returning to that dreadful land and facing a fear she desperately wanted to avoid, even if she couldn’t bring herself to admit it.

Everything about Nightbrook and its cruel ways frightened the soul out of her. She had almost lost someone dear to her there, her husband, and had nearly lost herself as well to the chaos.

Now, seeing the woman here in front of her, it was as though all those painful moments from her time in Nightbrook, memories she had carefully buried, came flooding back. She remembered, with terrifying clarity, every single act of cruelty the people had inflicted on them that day during the hunt.

"Yes, I am alive, but it won’t be for long if you don’t help me," the woman said, desperation heavy in her voice as she came to stand directly in front of Belle.

Rav walked toward Belle and said, "You can’t let her in, my lady. We need to send her back to where she came from. It’s too dangerous to keep—"

"Come in," Belle remarked, cutting off Rav’s warning by taking the woman’s hand and pulling her into the house, as she could sense the eyes of the neighbors on them from all directions. Whatever it was Lady Clifton needed help with shouldn’t be discussed outside, and certainly, she could not just send her away when she had come all the way from Nightbrook to this land.

When they got into the parlor room and Belle told a maid to bring snacks and tea for the guest, she gestured for Evenly to sit down on the sofa.

Once seated and the maid brought the tray of snacks and left upon Rav’s dismissal, he closed the door behind the maid and stepped into the room, causing Belle to look at him and then back at the woman who still had the hood covering half of her face. She asked,

"How did you know we were here?"

Evenly finally moved her hands and slowly pushed back the hood of her cloak to reveal her face. When she raised her eyes to Belle, Belle’s own eyes widened in astonished disbelief.

"Oh my Lord! How did that happen?" she exclaimed, noticing with dread that instead of the woman’s usual blue eyes, they were now a light red—marking her unmistakably as a turned vampire.

"It’s a long story. I was turned into a vampire that day I almost died during the hunt," she said to Belle, but her light red eyes shifted toward Rav, who was now standing behind Belle’s chair with guilt in his eyes.

"You would have died, my lady, if I hadn’t turned you," Rav said defensively, noticing Evenly’s accusing gaze, as if he had ruined her entire life by turning her into the very kind he now also belonged to.

"But I never asked you to turn me. I only whispered for you to help me. You could have helped me by finding a doctor, but instead, you just went ahead and did this to me," the woman cried out, furious that he had condemned her to such a fate and then ignored her whenever she asked for guidance on how to control her thirst. She wouldn’t have become a wanted criminal, just like the Duke and his wife, if she hadn’t been turned into a creature that fed on blood.

"That was the only way I could save your life. You were badly injured and suffering from internal bleeding. If you didn’t want to live, you shouldn’t have asked me to save your life," Rav said calmly, meeting her furious eyes without blinking.

That day of the hunt, because he had been worried about his master’s exhaustion, Rav had stayed close in the forest. Though he had not gone in, he had been there until he sensed something to be amiss when a gunshot and a scream rang in the trees and decided to go in, as for some reasons the scream sounded familiar.

He had not thought that his master and wife were in trouble when he passed the large tree where he had seen the woman, bleeding from her mouth and nose and on the brink of death. Her blue eyes had been filled with tears of sorrow and what looked like regret.

He was familiar with the look, it was the look that one had when they had failed to achieve something before their death, and when she had managed to whispered for him to help her through broken lips, Rav had done the only thing he could think of and went to help her. fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓

After he had poured his blood into her heart, a requirement to turn a human, he had carried her in his arms and went to hide her inside an opening curve in a tree in Grimvale and then covered her with leaves, knowing she would either die or wake up as a vampire or a rogue. So the safe place to leave her was inside the forest.

He had been contemplating whether to stay and see the outcome of her transformation when his master’s weak voice had spoken to him through the mind link, causing him to forget about the woman and rush to Rohan’s call to come and take his wife away.

"You turned her into a vampire?" Belle finally found the voice to ask after snapping out of her shock, blinking at Rav.

"Why didn’t you tell me she was alive?" she asked, then immediately felt foolish as the question left her lips. She realized there was no way Rav could have known that she knew Evenly, someone she had befriended during the game and had believed to be dead until now.