Married To The Mad Vampire Lord novel Chapter 276

Chapter 276: The bargain he made_Part 1

"What is it?" she asked.

Rohan did not speak immediately. He studied her face, listening to the rhythm of her heart, and from its uneasy beat, he knew she had an idea of what he was about to say. As much as he dreaded this moment, he realized he could no longer bear to keep her in the dark, not even for another second. He needed to get it off his chest, to say what he had done and get it over with.

Cupping the side of her neck with one hand and using the other to gently caress her arm, Rohan began, "Do you remember the time I left you in Bimmerville?"

Belle could only nod. How could she possibly forget that awful moment, the pain of watching him walk away after bidding her farewell? It was one of the memories she hated the most.

"I went to Nightbrook with the intention to kill the king," he told her, even though he already knew Kuhn had done it. "While I was there, I met the demon who sired me."

Belle hadn’t expected that part of the news. She gasped in surprised disbelief. "You met your father?" she exclaimed before she could stop herself.

But she instantly noticed the shift in his expression, his eyes darkened, and his face hardened like steel.

"Father?" he scoffed coldly. "I would rather believe I was made from filth than acknowledge that being as my father, Isa."

His voice held a chill that made her shiver. From his reaction alone, Belle could tell that his encounter hadn’t been pleasant. Not wanting to stir his fury further, she slowly reached up and brushed her fingers along his cheek, then traced the angry lines across his forehead with the back of her hand, hoping to soothe him.

"Tell me what went wrong, my love," she whispered coaxingly. "How did the meeting go?"

To her relief, the hardness in his face began to melt, and his grip around her tightened as though he needed her closeness to ground himself. Then, in a low voice, he began to tell her everything, from how the demon had invaded his mind, to how he had tried to manipulate him into believing he felt no real love for Belle, that he wasn’t seeking the throne out of devotion to her, but because of his thirst for power and he could get the powers in the demon world if he agreed to follow him.

Belle didn’t believe she was capable of her own true anger, not the kind that burned her from within, but in that moment, she felt it. Fury swelled in her chest like a storm. That creature had tried to pull her husband away from her. Worse still, he had watched Rohan suffer all those years and had never lifted a finger to help him. Only now, when he had something to gain, did he choose to show his face. The thought made her blood boil.

Rohan went on, dry humor laced through his voice. "He thought me a fool. I spent years in that asylum, completely unable to find my way out. There was a time I spoke to the darkness, knowing the demon who sired me was born from that same darkness, I pleaded with him to help me escape that place."

His jaw clenched, and Belle could see how deeply the memory dug into him. For someone like Rohan to plead for an escape, she could only imagine the depth of his despair and hate when he was ignored and left in that madhouse.

"He never came," he said flatly. "He never fucking appeared. I was left to rot in that madhouse, forced to listen to lunatics scream into my ears, drugged with medicines that shattered my mind, and punished with water so hot it felt like fire licking at my skin. And this bastard, this thing, now believes I’d just let all that go because he came claiming he’s been ’watching over me’ all these years?" 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

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