Married To The Mad Vampire Lord - Chapter 473

Chapter 473: To kill him_Part 2
“H-hurt…! M-make it stop, Enny… my hand…” Angel sobbed, his small voice breaking with each word, thick with pain and tears.

“P-Papa… it hurts!” he cried, his breath hitching as another sob tore from him. “It’s… it’s going inside… my body…” he whimpered, trembling, his words choked and uneven as fear and confusion tangled in his voice, not understanding why the pain was worse than anything he had ever felt.

“Hurry up, Evenly!” Rohan urged, the sound of his son’s voice tugging at something deep inside him. He wanted to be there for his boy, but he couldn’t risk releasing Rav and letting him attack anyone else. There was no way to simply knock out a rogue, once turned, the only way to stop one was by killing it.

“Make sure you cut away every dark bite mark of the rogue.” Said Rohan, turning over his shoulders and Evenly nodded before she spoke to the boy who was staring at the knife she held fearfully.

“I’ll make it stop, Angel. Try to stay still for me,” she cooed softly, her voice trembling as she fought her rising panic. She steadied herself against the pain she was about to cause by cutting into his flesh. She had never done such a thing before, but Evenly forced her shaking hands to move. She swiftly and hurriedly made the cut, and almost immediately Rohan’s next words came, urgent in it command:

“Let him bleed out the bad blood. Find something to tie around the upper part where he was bitten. Hurry up!” His voice carried desperation.

“Yes… I will,” Evenly replied, raising Angel’s arm and letting the dark, tainted blood flow out.

“Enny, I feel like…I want to sleep real quick…” Came the small voice of the boy and soon his cries grew faint until they faded entirely. He went limp, unconscious, just as she tore her hair ribbon free and tied it tightly around his arm above the bite to stop the infection from spreading to his heart.

“Is he supposed to fall unconscious?” she asked the duke, worried and sickened, as she had never before seen or treated someone who had been bitten by a rogue. She had heard about it and knew that a single bite meant one would turn, but since Rohan had instructed her to cut it away, perhaps he knew what he was doing. Still, the boy falling unconscious was concerning.

“It’s much better if he’s unconscious than awake. It will take away his pain. Can you help me get him inside?” he asked, wanting the vampiress and his son to be out of sight before he decided what to do with the rogue.

“Yes, I’ll get him into the house once I make the knot tight,” replied Evenly, completely oblivious to the fact that the rogue was her man.

How had a rogue gotten in? And where was Rav? Evenly wondered, her hands shaking slightly as she tightened the knot. Rav had told her to wait inside and that he’d return soon, but she’d felt restless, the look on his face before leaving had worried her more than she’d admitted to herself. His eyes looked strange and his body temperature.

She had really wanted to stay inside and wait for him to come back when she thought she heard a girl scream. That had been enough to make her come out looking for him inside the castle and to look for where the scream had come from.

She had been searching around the castle when she thought she heard Angel’s voice outside and rushed toward it. She hadn’t expected what she found, finding the boy bleeding and bitten. Now she couldn’t stop herself from wondering how it had entered when the castle grounds were surrounded by high walls. Unless… it came through the broken fence at the back, where it was connected to Grimvale forest.

Evenly began to lift Angel when a savage growl tore through the fog behind them, the sound of the rogue still fighting, likely against Rohan, and she stopped to ask.

“My Lord, have you seen Rav? Can you reach him and tell him to come out here? I… I can’t reach him through our mind link, and I’m beginning to worry. What if the rogue attacked him somewhere inside the castle?” Her voice shook as she tried to lift Angel higher, her fear of the rogue attacking Rav impossible to hide.

“I can’t reach him,” came Rohan’s grim, simple reply, and Evenly’s heart twisted into a knot of dread. She couldn’t reach him too! Where was he and how could he have left the castle without telling her where he was going? Didn’t he know she would be worried and restless?

“My Lord, Rav never locks his link from me. I think… I think he must be lying somewhere, hurt inside the castle. Please, we need to find him and make sure he hasn’t been bitten by the rogue…” Her words trailed off as she stood, holding the unconscious boy tightly against her chest, and turned toward where Rohan was, only to finally see the scene that greeted her there, which made her heart plummet into her stomach like a stone thrown into a river.

The fog had shifted now, parting just enough for her to see. The fallen lamp on the ground flickered weakly, but it cast a golden hue on Rohan’s back, and on the creature before him, whose neck he had his hand wrapped around.

The rogue was snarling and lunging at Rohan savagely, but Evenly’s world seemed to have suddenly narrowed down on it as she recognized the face beneath the decaying transformation.

Though it was beginning to rot, it hadn’t fully turned yet. The dark hair she had stroked just an hour ago was still there, and he was still wearing one of the nightwear she had bought him which he’d worn just an hour ago. Now it was covered with blood.

Everything inside Evenly went still. Her blood ran cold as she stared at him in disbelief.

How could this have happened?

“Rav…” she whispered.

She took a trembling step forward, clutching Angel tightly to her chest, her heart pounding like drums in her ears. She couldn’t believe what she was seeing, yet there was no mistaking it. The rogue was her husband-to-be!

“Don’t come closer, Lady Evenly. He’s losing the battle already, he can’t recognize you,” Rohan warned. His tone was strained, holding command and a bit of sorrow.

He hadn’t wanted her to see this. He had hoped she would be inside with Angel so he could find the strength to end Rav’s misery alone. Not killing him wasn’t an option, not when he wasn’t snapping out of it. And though he knew it would haunt him forever, he would have to do it.

“How…how did he become like this?” She asked, her trembling eyes going to Rohan’s back. “What happened?” Her voice shook with fear even as she asked a question her heart already knew the answers to.

All this time, Rav hadn’t been distant because of her, he’d been hiding his symptoms of corruption, his discomfort, his fear of what was coming and trying to avoid her and keep his distance. He had left her early that evening because he had sensed the change beginning.

Evenly’s throat tightened painfully as painful emotions surged through her. She knew what becoming a rogue meant. There was no cure. No return. Only…death.

Not once had she thought she would lose him, not when their lives had just begun to find peace and they had started to understand each other like couples do, not when she had just accepted that she truly loved him and was planning to tell him her feelings once she gave birth. Not when she had seen that marriage life wouldn’t be bad between them as they understood one another so much.

No. Not now.

She recalled his eyes as they used to be, red, beautiful, and now saw only the clouded white of rogue. Her heart twisted painfully at the thought of waking up tomorrow without him beside her, of lying in bed alone again every night without someone to talk to, to hold her and tell her stories of a hard life of being born poor she had never lived before. Someone to make her cherish everything and not take them for granted.

“No… please, no. Don’t kill him. There must be a way to help him. He’s still alive, we can find a way to save him. Please!” Evenly cried out just as Rohan’s fingers began to tighten around Rav’s neck. She could see the strain in Rohan’s face too, the pain of a man forced to do something he didn’t want to. Even though she was aware it was the only way out, she wouldn’t be able to accept that. No, not her Rav!