Married To The Mad Vampire Lord-Chapter 239: Disagreement_Part 2

"She can’t stay here, Isa! There is no room for another bloodsucker!" Rohan growled in rising anger. He was doing this for her sake, couldn’t she see it and put herself first before others?

"She can manage just like you and Rav and Gwen have been managing!" Belle yelled back at him, angry that he was raising his voice at her for the first time in a long while because she wanted to save a friend. Why couldn’t he see that the woman needed them? Where would she go if they threw her out into the streets of a land where their kind were killed?

"Not with the amount of blood I have to keep for you everyday! That woman cannot stay here in this house—she’s leaving, or I’ll kill her myself." Rohan moved forward to grab Evenly’s hand, but the look of shocked disbelief in Belle’s eyes stopped him short in his tracks, realizing too late what he had said wrong.

"What do you mean?" she questioned, her eyes looking up at him with confusion. "I... I take blood? When?"

She had no memories of drinking blood or feeding on it. She wasn’t a vampire and could never imagine herself feeding off a living person. Not unless...

Rohan cursed under his breath and then ran his fingers through his hair as he said, "I never intended for you to find this out—at least not like this. But ever since I knew about your pregnancy, I’ve started feeding you blood." He told her, not mentioning the maid that had died in the process.

Just like he had thought, a look of repulsion crossed her face, and she clutched a hand to her throat, her face turning pale as a sheet.

"Why would you feed me... blood..." She turned disbelieving, conflicted eyes to him—a look that seemed as though he had deliberately given her something harmful for the sake of it, as she couldn’t understand why he would give it to her when she was human.

"It’s the only way to stop the baby from hurting you. I had to mix it with your medicine," he added, not liking the silent accusations he saw in her eyes.

She was about to part her lips to speak, but then, at the mention of the baby, her hand flew to her stomach. The look that unsettled him on her face faded—as though she had just remembered what she was carrying.

"I... I didn’t know he needed blood. I never thought about it..." she whispered, touching her belly and fighting back the impulse to cringe at the thought of having drunk blood without her knowledge. She tried to tell herself that he had done it to protect her, that if he hadn’t told her, she would never have known. And truly, she hadn’t tasted it. Not even once.

While she was lost in the realization of how blind she had been, not seeing what should have been obvious, that of course a vampire’s child would need blood, and how her husband had spared her the horror of it by giving it to her secretly, Rohan silently signaled Rav to carry out the order and take Evenly away.

Rav pulled the woman’s hand, but Belle turned her eyes in time to see his fast movement and quickly step forward again.

"She can still manage just like everyone. Don’t send her out, please..." she pleaded to her husband, who seemed hellbent on sending Evenly away.

Normally, whenever she pleaded with Rohan for something, he always gave it to her. She was certain he wouldn’t deny her this as well. She wouldn’t be able to live with herself if she let them throw the woman away. She looked at him, begging him with her eyes, but no matter how much she begged, his did not soften, and they remained on Evenly, angry veins bulging against his forehead and neck.

"Take her away, Rav. I will handle my wife," he said detachedly through their mind link as he moved to silently take Belle’s hand to steer her away from the room. But she pulled back from him, stepping away until she stood close to the frightened Evenly, who had already resigned and stopped struggling when Rav began to pull her away. Belle gripped her other hand and spoke as she looked up at Rohan.

"If you send her away... I will have no choice but to go with her." She said the words not because she truly meant them, but to force him to change his mind. However, she had spoken with such firm determination, hardening her heart to keep herself from giving away the truth, that even Rohan, who could easily read her, believed she meant it.

He looked stunned for a moment, then let out a humorless laugh.

"You will go with her if I don’t let her stay here? You would leave me for the sake of this woman who means nothing to our family?" he asked, not believing for a second that she meant it, or that she would nod her head in confirmation.

And yet, when she did nod, and her heart echoed that she meant it and would do just that, it was all Rohan could do not to kill the newly turned vampiress right then and there.

"If you leave me with no choice, I will do just that," Belle said, her voice serious and her expression unreadable, completely opposite to what she truly felt. Perhaps it was the pregnancy, or perhaps she had simply grown stronger, but lately, she had learned new ways to control her emotions and harden her heart at the right time so her husband couldn’t easily read her like before.

She had mastered it to hide discomforts that might worry him, and now, she used that same method to shield her true emotions from his ability to sense them.

That was the only way she could protect this woman. What did he expect her to do, stand by and let him kill someone who had once saved her life?

She had failed to save Evenly once. She wouldn’t fail again, not a second time, especially not when the person trying to kill her now was the man she loved with all her heart.

"I am doing all this for you, Isa," came Rohan’s voice, flat, holding no emotion. But deep down, he felt hurt, even though he didn’t want to admit it. She had so easily chosen an outsider over him, her husband, her family. Was the love she had for him so easily set aside? Would she truly walk away from him to save someone who could disrupt the peaceful life he had built for her?

Newly turned vampires had no ability to control their thirst when it hit them, and keeping one here, especially now that the authorities had begun to patrol their premises, was a risk that could lead to them being exposed. It was only a few more months before she would give birth and he would carry out his original plans for them, but now... with this vampiress...

"Can’t you see that I’m trying to keep you safe?" he muttered, locking his eyes with hers and letting them stay there longer than usual, for the first time. He let her see the hurt, the ache he had tried to hide, reflected in his dark gaze.

"And I’m trying to save a friend," Belle retorted, looking up at him without wavering, without blurting out that she had only been bluffing. Not even when the look in those twin dark eyes sent a dagger straight through her heart.

His lips twisted into a bitter line as he gave her a nod.

"If that’s what you want, then we’ll do it your way. But I hope you’re ready for the consequences as well. Every direction and decision one takes brings a reaction from the opposite side. There will be one for this too."

His darkened eyes turned murderously to the vampiress beside her, then briefly back to Belle, before he turned on his heels and stormed out of the room, and then the house, in long, angry strides. The door slammed shut behind him, making it clear that he was gone.

Belle fought the urge to run after him and tell him she hadn’t meant those words—that he was more important to her than anything. But she resisted and stood right where she was.

Telling him she hadn’t meant it would mean Evenly would be killed. She was doing this to save a life, even though it meant she had hurt her husband. She could easily console him later when everything was calm, but she couldn’t as easily restore a life.

So, she stayed rooted to the spot. Her heart tightened painfully, along with her throat, where a huge lump lodged itself and refused to go down, no matter how many times she swallowed.

She’d never seen anyone’s eyes carry so much hurt and... pain as his had before he walked out.

I will apologize to him later when he’s calm. I will make him understand why I said that, she told herself.