The Princess's Dangerous Vampire Mate-Chapter 381: A mated female- II

Just as Merelyn left, Irene dismissed the other two means as well. It left me alone with her in the dressing room.

At first, she dressed Me silently, and I let her. Too many thoughts were on my mind anyway, and it was slightly difficult to align them in what I wanted to know first.

I broke the silence. "Why did you take me seven days to heal?"

She kept quiet for a minute, and then answered, "some vampires, or more possessive than the others. Those are the ones that have to wait more in comparison to the others. The king has waited for you quite a long time which made him—"

"Make me suffer?"

"No," she hushed me gently, "it gave him proud that his mate was finally marked and if you had been a vampire from the start, he would have shown your neck to everyone with pride. It would mean that he was finally a complete man."

As much as I tried to understand where Irene was coming from because she seemed quite accepting of the fact I could not accept that. It does not seem very....mately.

"So," I decided to say what was on my mind, "he kept me in pain and out of consciousness because of his pride?"

I had been sitting in front of the mirror, and in that split second, I saw Irene hesitate.

"Yes." she locked her eyes with mine, knowing she could not lie.

"That is also why I was not healed for seven days, why I remained in that bed, when I could have been killed and up within a day or two?"

She nodded, biting her lip.

"Why?" I could not stress on the word enough. It made me feel betrayed like, this information happened purposely kept from me. "Why would you do that to me when he loves me?"

"Sometimes the animal inside of the man takes control of him. He was talked out of it by multiple people, and finally, he gave into it. At times, please, you can go for a very long.."

very long what?

If Irene had left the sentence, hanging was not going to ask for more.

"Would he, at least, be apologetic about it?"

Irene looked guilty. "I didn’t think so. So, I will tell you not to expect that from him. He might say it because you want to hear it but he won’t be."

Well, then, what was the purpose of hearing it from him? I could imagine him doing that with a straight face. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

The bite mark had been left uncovered and there was no cloth on it. It might not have looked as far as it had been when I was brought inside the castle, but I could still see the puncture marks and some of my flesh.

"Why not cover it?" I asked her.

The previous two times that I had been bitten, the mark had been covered.

"This mark is different," she said, "it is supposed to be out in the open for everyone to see."

"Why? How is it different than the two other ones, they had to take it back into my skin as well."

"The first one almost drained you dry, the second one was out of anger." She pointed with a smile. "That is not how vampires live by. The two reasons are the opposite of the code of conduct, so they can be covered up because there is nothing prideful about them."

"I see." My eyes narrowed at them. "This is prideful. So, has not healed. Will the marks go away?"

"No, they are here to stay." She waited a little before adding, " which is why he waited for so long to give you his blood. If he had done the first today, the mark would have faded. To make the mark last longer, he refrained, and then the animal made him refrain for more."

It would be kind to put it this way that I did not like the Tristan had refrained from making me heal quickly. It made me feel bad enough to cry.

"What made him heal?" I do not know what made me brave enough to ask that question because the answer could be anything from heartwarming to devastating.

"Lord Dominique, and lord Dawson made the threat to give you their blood if he did not concede."

Devastating, it was.

stationery needs the rest of the time. It was very obvious but how Irene had dressed me today. My neck was left bare because the show of the day was going to be the mark on my neck. My hands however, had two rings. These did not belong to me, and I was sure that they did not belong to the previous queen well.

My hair was done in an elegant up to which was not low and touching my neck. My neck was completely bare and there was nothing at overshadowed it.

I wanted to think that Irene had done it so because it might irritate my neck but with what I had been told about Tristan doing, I doubted it.

"Who wants to meet me?" I could feel the people outside and wondered how it could be true, but I just felt like it.

"Everyone." She whispered and looked up from her work. "The king has kept them on hold and Lord Dominic has made sure of that, but the moment you accept to see one, the others will want to see you as well. We can only hold them for so long." She whispered the last part if she was embarrassed about how their hands were tied.

I cannot blame her for that. Given that when anything happened to the royal family, almost everyone wanted to have a glimpse of it.

"I have to meet them." The mark itched. "But I don’t want to, at least not today."

"There is going to be a large gathering for people to meet you and they are going to come from places that are very far away from this Palace. If you meet people that you are already familiar with, it might be a little less of a burden then."

I suppose it was her way of telling me that I have to do it one way or the other and I might as well get it done with it as soon as possible.