Married To The Mad Vampire Lord novel Chapter 239

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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.