The Princess's Dangerous Vampire Mate-Chapter 399: A truth - II

Never again.

Regardless of his promise, how did he know? It was not possible for anyone to know. I had not shared that. I always woke up before any of the maids came into this room. While I slept, I found it hard to believe that anyone was outside and that they were paying attention to what was going inside.

I never screamed, never made a noise when I woke up. So how was it possible that Tristan knew about the nightmares?

Worst scenarios came into my mind, and the cutlery dropped from my hands. They made a sound against the table that made me jump.

Pushing the chair away from the table, I kept the napkin on the table, beside my plate before standing up and moving to the door.

Fear grip. Every sense I had to make out any kind of logic from the situation. How did he know? How did he possibly know?

Just as I came in front of the door, my eyes caught the angry red spot on my neck in the reflection that the wood showed me.

Coming to a halt, I stared at it as my mind started working.

I turned around and charged towards him, stopping only when I came to my own seat. Gripping the edges of it, I asked the dreaded question. "How do you know about it when no one else does?"

His lips stretched a little, maybe it was my thinking, but I knew that he did smile.

"I could only let it go for so long that I do not know what is going on with you. As my beloved, I always know what has been happening with you."

"No," I shook my head frantically, "that’s not possible. You cannot always have known!"

"I have." he replied firmly, in complete contrast to my franticness. "I could never go far from you. I have always been close to you—"

"If you had always been close to me, then THAT should have never happened!" I screamed at him, all my words aimed at him like the sharpest arrow.

"If you had been there, then I would not have to suffer, if you had been there, truly, as you say, then the nightmares would have never begun. They would have NEVER been there to begin with. You were never there, Tristan. Admit it!"

Tristan’s face changed and he stood up. "Genevive," his hands reached out to me, but I stepped back, " listen to me."

"I did listen to you. It turns out, you have been lying!" I seethed the words in his direction.

"I do not wish to hear you anymore. Not when you tell me that you could have done, you could have prevented something from happening and you chose not to—"

"I would never choose not to protect you." in a blank of an eye he was in front of me, staring at me with something resembling anger.

But it did happen. We had a chance to protect me from something and he failed in that. Tristan admitting that he could have prevented it from happening only added more fuel to the fire than I could handle.

I took a step closer to him, keeping out of his reach at the same time. "You talk about the nice mess and how they could not happen anymore. Yet you could have done something to make sure that they would never occur in the first place. You failed. You failed Tristan, miserably."

His nose flared but Tristan did not utter a word. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

"Since you have failed once and cost me great suffering. Why don’t you tell me how in the world can you stop my nightmares now when you could not do them previously?"

It hit him then about what I was talking about and when it did, Tristan shook his head. "I did want to protect you before. The bond only strengthens my intuition regarding you. That is how I will stop the nightmares."

The bond. Everything was just the bond and nothing else. The bond was the basis of everything and nothing.

The bond was responsible for lack of my purity.

Shaking my head with disgust, I took a few steps away before turning away from him and lowering myself to my knees.

All of it became too much. I was fine living with the memory, with the night, but with the knowledge that someone could have stopped it all from happening? It made it difficult to live.

"I," I gulped, "I do not understand. How could you tell me that you could have protected me all this while, saved me before anything could happen, and not expect me to call you out on your lack of doing so?"

The tickling feeling of tears on my cheeks made me turn towards them and wipe them with the back of my hand. Turning my head towards, I announced, "Whatever it is that you want to talk about from now on, refrain from doing self. Find a messenger if you must, because I would rather never see your face again."

Tristan adamantly shake his head as he stopped towards me, "Genevieve don’t—"

"No."

Slowly, I got to my feet again before repeating the word more firmly than before. "No."

"You did what you wanted and you failed. You could have protected me but I needed to at the most, but you could not. You hate it from me like a coward and now you come to take away the consequences?" Staring at him through my blurry eyes that were filled with tears, I slowly shook my head before blinking my eyes, and allowing the tears to fall, once again, on my cheeks.

"You cannot have the opportunity to take them away. Leave the nightmares to me. They are going to have."

Before his Majesty, the king could say another word. I turned around and left. The moment I found the stairs, I ran upstairs into the person’s room of the person. I knew I could trust the most in the palace.