I walked back to the dressing room where Dorothy was already standing. I could tell by her face that Tristan had already entered my room which is why I did not delay eting him anymore.
I turned to his direction and bowed my head, "Good evening."
He sighed softly and moved closer to . "Do not talk to like that." His fingers traced my jaw, "all but you, should not talk to like that."
Unconsciously, I leaned more into his touch and nodded. Even though I was well aware of what I was doing it was hard to pull away from him. Sothing constantly attracted towards him and I constantly blad it on the bond that I have been made aware of.
"I was told you were going to bring sothing for ." I whispered, knowing that his Vampire ears could hear them well. I partly spoke and broke the mont because it was too much to be in.
"I did." He nodded and touched my elbow before guiding towards the mirror and making sit in the seat in front of it.
Nokul, who once again did not look at my face or even above my feet, handed him the wooden box, a similar one to what I had presented Marilyn with.
The mont he opened it and brought out the necklace my eyes opened wide.
It was a huge, humongous actually, necklace of Ruby and white diamonds. It was big enough that it would hide most of my cleavage that I was going with this dress.
This was one of the most beautiful necklaces that I had ever seen and definitely surpassed my mother’s collection of jewellery.
However, there was no denying that I did not deserve this especially with what I was about to do and that guilt weight heavily on my chest.
"Tristan.."
"Hush," silenced gently and brought forward the necklace before placing cold jewellery on my neck making shiver. "Aunt and the council agreed on your coronation when you will be ready to be the queen and accept the new reality. Until then I cannot give you the Crown but in lieu of it,"
He kissed my shoulder, making my breath hitch.
"I give you the necklace of the queen, my queen." He kissed my temple softly. "My Genevieve."
My eyes burned and I was unable to stop the tears that were forming in my eyes. I breathed so heavily to control those cries and blinked my eyes repeatedly. "I can’t.." my hands to reach the buckle of the necklace only to be stopped and held by his own.
"It would be great if you wore them." Tristan took my hands and placed them on my lap before retracing his arms back to his side.
I gulped down the guilt which was extrely difficult to swallow but I had no other option.
"If you say so," I agreed. He told to do it so if I betrayed him he could have the bla on him.
"Co," he stepped back and waited for to stand up. "I can introduce you to a few family mbers so that you know a few people out of the many that are going to join us."
He was going to introduce to the family. I was not going to assu that it was a normal hardworking family or from one with an aristocratic background.
It was going to be a family sent for the vampires and I was going to be soone with warm blood pumping in her veins.
What does it feel like I was being paraded around like a scapegoat?
I nodded and surprisingly with an excited smile Tristan led out of the room.
My hand was placed on his elbow and like the true king and queen of the palace we walked in the halls with our heads held high with people bowing down in front of us.
The small bottle that I carried in my skirts seems so heavy that I felt like it would drop and make a sound which would attract a for you want towards it and sohow it would all be found before—
"Genevieve, you are thinking again." Tristan led us to the stairs as he spoke, "why do you think of sothing else when you are with ?"
"And you do not?" That was out of curiosity.
"No, I do not." He answered and looked straight ahead. "It is difficult to spare ti and be with you, which is why I utilise every bit of it."
"You spare ti for ?" I narrowed my eyes on him. "I did not know of my importance in your life until now."
Tristan chuckled as he glanced at before looking ahead again. "I keep myself away from you, Genevieve."
"Why?"
Suddenly, with a gust of wind and blur, I found myself with my back against the wall and Tristan right in front of .
A silent gasp escaped and stared at his astonishnt. "Wh-what?"
Instead of expecting to see Tristan’s easy going and relaxed expression, I saw him staring at with his impassive eyes and that scared .
"Because I yearn to be in your presence and it’s difficult to be about." His thumb touched my lower lip and he sucked in a long breath. "Because every ti I am with you I don’t want to hold and I don’t want to hurt you.."
"But I need to give you ti and that ans I need to be away."
My eyes lowered but his fingers Saturday below my channel and pulled my face up so that my eyes t his.
"Don’t lower those eyes, not when I have finally had the chance of looking at them."
I was going to break apart. My heart felt like it was going to shatter into a thousand pieces and there was nothing I could do to stop it.
"Let us go, Tristan." I told him and get my voice as firm and unwavering as I could before I slipped out of his whole and walked down the stairs alone.
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