Married To The Mad Vampire Lord - Chapter 488

Chapter 488: The orga inside the cell
Evenly watched in horror as Rav devoured and killed the two. It was a sickening sight, and she pushed Angel’s head back behind her skirt to keep him from looking. She didn’t even try to stop Rav from killing the men, they had brought themselves here, but her worry was entirely for Rav, whose condition was fragile.

Before Rav finished killing them, the corruption had already begun consuming him all over again. He staggered back from the dead, scattered bodies and began to cough violently, his entire body shaking. He tried not to lose himself to it, but the battle inside his chest was slipping from his grasp. He dragged himself farther away from the corpses, forcing distance between himself and Evenly and Angel, yet every movement sent excruciating pain tearing through him.

“Rav,” Evenly called softly, noticing the way his body began to twist against the floor as he groaned.

“Don’t… don’t come close to me. I am losing control again… I don’t think I can fight this anymore, Evenly,” Rav cried out, his voice hoarse and breaking. His body had fought the corruption for hours, and he no longer had the strength to hold it back. Throughout the night in that locked room, something had been eating him from the inside, and now his resistance was failing.

“Rav, you can do this. Just fight it a little longer, before the duke comes back. He… he is going to help you,” Evenly urged from where she stood, torn between running to him and shielding Angel from the sight unfolding before her.

“I… I am sorry, Evenly. I… I—ugh—so, so sorry. I wish… ahh… I wish I never had to leave you like this… so sorry…” he choked out. Then, before she could say another word, he forced himself to his feet, something slipping from his pocket as he did, and he stumbled toward the stairs. He fell, caught himself, fell again, but kept rising, pushing himself farther from her because he knew he was losing the battle all over again.

He heard her footsteps chasing after him. That was why, the moment he reached the front entrance, he swung the door closed with the last strength he had and locked it from the outside to trap her safely within.

Then he collapsed to the ground, and the rogue transformation consumed him completely, a raw, agonized scream tearing out of his throat.

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Meanwhile, Josh, who had entered the dungeon part through an entrance from another building attached to the castle, held his refill and torch in both hands to see where he was walking. His boot sank into the dirty water that was gathered around the corridor, and he hissed in disgust.

He soon arrived at the cells inside the dungeon, and not knowing which one his woman was in, he called out her name, to which Cordelia answered immediately.

“Over here, Josh!”

Josh heard her reply and smiled to himself as he hurried toward where it came from. He soon reached the cell she was in. Relief washed over him.

“Oh Cordie. I have finally found you. I was so worried when I couldn’t find you for days,” Josh said as he put down his refill and then moved closer to the cell gate to hold Cordelia’s hands, which were clutching the bars.

Cordelia had never been as glad to see Josh’s face as she was at this moment; she wanted to leave this place desperately. She didn’t care about anything or the fact that the human was annoying and clingy. She clutched his hand in hers and forced herself to sound pitiful and helpless.

“Josh… I was so terrified. I thought I’d never see you again. Get me out of here.”

Josh, hearing the helplessness, looked at her face, but since her hair was covering it, he couldn’t see her well. He liked to look into his woman’s beautiful face while he talked and heard them say they wanted and needed him. And just like every time, Josh nodded as he pulled his hand away from hers and then brought it up to her face, moving her hair away to tuck it behind her ear.

However, Josh was startled by what he saw, so much that he quickly released the hair to fall back and cover the hideous face highlighted by the torch he held in his other hand. He stepped back from the cell.

“What happened to your face, Cordie?” he asked, his voice unable to hide the horror in it. Her face had been slashed from forehead to jaw, and the skin of her nose had been ripped along with her lips. She looked nothing like he remembered, her face swollen beyond recognition. She looked like an orga!

Cordelia, who had momentarily forgotten about what Rohan had done to her face, quickly pulled her hair to cover it properly as she said, “He did this to me, that monster. Josh, hurry up and get me out of here.” She made her voice sound even more pitiful. Damn the human with his obsession with beautiful people!

Josh, who was indeed obsessed and could do anything for beautiful people, was suddenly repulsed by what he had seen on Cordelia’s face.

“Weren’t you supposed to heal fast?” he asked, not daring to even move closer to shoot at the lock of the cell to let her out like he had intended to do before. If she didn’t heal when she was first hurt, it meant she wouldn’t heal at all, and he would have to live with a woman who looked like a monster dug from the graveyard.

“Yes, I was supposed to heal fast, but I am not healing. Josh, hurry and unlock the door so we can get away from here together and work on having your heir,” Cordelia said, sticking her hand between the narrowed bars toward him to hold him, but Josh looked so sick that there was a ting of green on his skin as he looked at the hand she held out and her face, now covered with her long hair, though he couldn’t forget what he had seen beneath it.

“Have you seen how you look, Cordie?” he asked, looking at her with pure disgust and resentment because she dared to suggest he have his heir with her when she looked like that. “How can I dare touch a woman who looks like that and even have my heir with her? I can’t believe you made me waste my time coming here when I should be getting ready to leave this godforsaken land before the war reaches the cities. Couldn’t you have the sense to at least tell me that you don’t look the same anymore? That your face has been ruined?”

He was a human and had the chance of leaving Nightbrook to go and live in one of the many human lands, but because of Cordelia he had come all this way, only now to realize she no longer had what he loved about her, which was her beauty. How dare such an ugly woman talk to him about making an heir?

“Josh, what are you saying? I am still the same woman you loved. I have not changed, only my face has, and I will find a way to make it look good again once you get me out of here,” Cordelia tried to convince him. She had never actually thought it could be such a big deal to lose one’s beauty to a man who claimed he loved you.