Mated to the Mad Lord-Chapter 157: Even monsters don’t...

"I’m telling you! It was a bloodbath! I didn’t see it, but the ones who came before me saw it!"

"...so the Lord is truly a monster that eats people? He looks so handsome, though!" a female among them said, only for the one closest to her to snap at her with a mocking expression on his face.

"If you want to die... then go right ahead!" he sneered in a way that made the female want to sneer back, only to give up as she turned her attention back to the ongoing conversation among the five of them, wanting to say more and add to it.

Violet didn’t speak, even as she heard them continue, so many things reeling in her head about what she had just heard. It was hard to process the longer she listened to it.

’Cain—Cain killed everyone!’ her eyes widened in shock and panic as her hands began to tremble.

’Tha-that’s not possible! I—I mean, why would—he wouldn’t, right?’ her heart thumped in her chest as she again looked around her and at every servant that walked past her, not sparing her a look of recognition. What made it even worse was the fact that she herself couldn’t recognize any of them.

Violet was just about to throw caution to the wind and head toward them to ask for more details, only to hear a deep, familiar voice speak from behind her. It was shocking since she hadn’t even heard footsteps.

"If you are so idle... I can think of a thousand things for you to do!"

The servants jerked up their faces in shock at the interruption of the voice, bowing their heads the second they recognized his uniform and the emblem on his chest.

"We apologize, Head Guard!" they each chorused one after the other, even as Violet jerked back in surprise to see the person she had been looking for standing behind her, glaring right at the servants who continued to bow as they scattered.

Violet was just about to speak, only to clamp her mouth shut as her hands flung straight for her bare neck where the band she was supposed to wear was missing. Since she didn’t speak, Frank did instead.

"I assumed you’d be in your room resting," Frank said, only to watch Viole, the Lord’s lover, lower his head and shake it without speaking to him. Frank wasn’t surprised, considering he had seen the state in which he had been found.

Frank had been the most relieved, especially since he had been sitting right at death’s gate when it happened. "If you’re looking for the Lord... he’s in the basement right now!" Frank said, surprised to see Viole immediately jerk his head up to look straight at him as he vigorously nodded.

"...I can inform him that you’re looking for him! The basement isn’t somewhere you want to go!" Frank informed Viole, even as his gaze became more intense and his thoughts slightly drifted.

’Yes, he has a slender figure and soft features that make him look almost feminine, but I just can’t imagine how a man can be attracted to another man. What about the thing between his legs?’ He was drawn out of his thoughts when he saw Viole respond with a fierce nod, clearly trying to refuse to speak even if, for some weird reason, he still didn’t.

Frank was just about to argue, but in a split second, a thought against it crossed his mind as he slowly nodded his head. "You won’t enter with me, but I can call Lord Cain out to meet you!" He wasn’t surprised to see Viole immediately nod his head, even before he was done speaking, refusing to use his mouth to speak.

’His tongue was severed, but the witch should have fixed it!’ Frank thought, aware of every single thing that had happened in the mansion, especially since he had been the one to arrange it after Cain had refused to allow Ravon to do so.

Without seeing a need to continue speaking, he gestured for Viole to follow behind him as he led the way to the basement, intent on making him wait outside.

’...I’m sure he heard what they said, so I can’t imagine how he can continue to willingly agree to be with Cain... unless...’ Yet the thought of Cain having to force a lover to his bed was something Frank found difficult to agree with, having seen the number of women and men who would willingly sacrifice their limbs for a chance to simply touch him. freewebnσvel.cøm

At that moment, Frank decided not to dwell on it, realizing that as long as he continued to stay in the mansion, the only thing he would care about was his own safety and nothing else.

’I might be the Head Guard, but I’m aware enough to know that even my safety isn’t something that’s embedded in stone!’ he thought, blanking out his expression until no traces of his thoughts could be found on his face.

Behind him, Violet continued to follow obediently without saying a word. At first, her intention had been to avoid Cain and wait until he was gone before escaping, but now, after what she had heard, she couldn’t help but want to hear it from his own mouth.

’Frank is right here in front of me, so everything might simply be lies!’ she consoled herself, the thought that Cain could be capable of killing a hundred people something she couldn’t fathom, not to mention every single servant in the mansion, whose numbers were definitely more than a hundred.

’I’ve seen him kill before, but he can’t—killing that many people, even he can’t—he’s a monster, but even a monster can’t—’ Her fingers trembled as she tried to keep it in. The thought that she had willingly kissed someone who could do such a thing made her feel disgusted with herself.

’I can justify a few servants to have been bad... but all of them!’ She swallowed the invisible lump in her throat as she focused on following behind Frank and nothing else, not knowing what she would do if Cain actually admitted to it. The imagery of it made her nauseous enough to throw up.

’Regardless! By this time tomorrow, I’ll be gone!’ she thought, even as she raised her head high and hid her anxiety in the deepest parts of her heart, intent on not showing even the slightest bit of her emotions until she got what she wanted... no, what she needed.