"Where?" The word left my mouth in a whisper as I glanced around the house to find him. Where had Tristan disappeared to in a matter of seconds?
"I.." Sir Walter repeated the sa actions as I did, as he continued to look around like . "I don’t know.."
"Reginald!!"
This cream shook everyone to the core, from Sir Walter and his son to Dorothy and I, we all jumped on how loud and sudden it was before recognising who the voice belonged to.
"Georgina." Reginald Walter whispered before running into direction he had hurt his wife scream from.
Without wasting a second, Dorothy and I followed him.
We found them on the main road, and just as we were at a distance where we could hear and see them, we stopped.
Tristan standing right next to Georgina Walter who appeared to be unhard but just rattled.
He had not done anything, so why had she scread so loud?
"My love," Sir Walter neared her slowly, still wary of the vampire standing next to her but did not let it deter his actions. "Are you alright? Are you hard?"
"I," Mrs. Walter blinked, "I don’t know.. what happened?"
Confused at her explanation, almost everyone looked at Tristan who shrugged his shoulders at Sir Walter. "I compelled her to scream. See? I have no desire to hurt anyone, at least not why my hand."
He definitely had quite a way to make his point known.
He still did not look at . Not even a glance my way but I knew the conversation was going to start soon.
"We cannot give you the princess, making. You must understand that she is my responsibility—"
"She was my responsibility the mont I recognised her as my bonded." Tristan cut him off, "I am grateful to know that she has soone to take care of her in my absence, but that is not needed." The word needed was thrown out viciously.
"You have seen not even a fraction of what I can do to your family while making you all do nothing but watch, once again I am asking you to hand her over."
Sir Walter did not look at and I was grateful for that. Yet, the helpless expression was sothing I could feel forming on his face. For how long could he continue to deny when he had no power to do so?
"I cannot, my lord. You have to forgive —"
"Look at her, Reginald Walter." Tristan’s eyes followed mine and my heartbeat quickened. "She is out of the house."
Realisation settled in. Dorothy wiped my way and so did Sir Walter before I felt a wind rush past .
Without even looking, I knew Tristan was standing behind . I felt him stand behind .
The horrified gasp of my friend made it certain that it happened.
"Please, my Lord." The panic settled on sir Walter’s face and my fear started to grow. " you must understand that what she did—"
"You will be inford of the verdict." I flinched when I heard him speak from behind . "What she did, as you must know, is punishable by law because it was a cri carried out against the king."
"We will see what punishnt will be The best course of action to be followed. Until then, I do not want to see any of you in the capital. Stay here."
Lord have rcy. I started to chant the prayer in my mind.
"which also reminds of sothing, or rather soone," Tristan clicked his tongue, "ah yes, get the Prince of Lethoris."
My eyes snapped open and I turned around. "You cannot ask for him, Tristan! He has barely recovered from what you’ve done to him before!"
"Well I will do him a favour this ti then," he smiled at flashing bis fangs, " I won’t give him a chance to make a recovery."
I gasped and opened my mouth to say sothing, but his sudden grip on my elbows silenced .
He looked past and I watched as the small black part of his eyes started to blend out with the red circles surrounding it. "Get the Prince."
My eyes in the word in question when I heard footsteps. Cian walked past at a determined pace and I understood what happened. Tristan had compelled him just like he had compelled Mrs Walter.
I gasped at the sudden and abrupt stop. I blinked my eyes repeatedly to see what was in front of . We were back at the cottage but just in the blink of an eye!
He had used his inhumane speed to bring here.
As we waited for Cian to catch up to us and bring the prince out, I realised that we were finally alone and this might be my chance to beg for the safety and rcy of soone else since I was sure I was not receiving it from him.
"Don’t do it, Tristan." I begged, my voice barely above a whisper. "Please, don’t harm him. You have done enough damage already."
He hissed in between his teeth and my heart almost ca to my throat, ready to jump out of my mouth and end it all at once.
His red eyes moved to and his face consorted to an angry expression, "why is it you continue to choose everyone except , Genevevive? It is always everyone except and I refuse to accept it any longer."
What?
He nodded, "Aunt chiara Will no longer be held off by . You will learn everything there is to be learned of vampires and our customs. You will be a vampire queen soon and it is ti you learn all about it."
He did not even give the chance to let the words settle in.
"The mont you step into the palace, your punishnt will be decided and you will be given a way out of it if you decide to take it." He smiled, "however I don’t think you will be taking it."
What was he planning? Why would I not take a chance to run from the punishnt if it was ever provided?
"Tris—"
My eyes moved to the figure that had now entered the house, as he had walked past us. Cian was here and now on his way.
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