It was a long midnight al. It was the one I enjoyed very much. However, the mont it was over, all, but ran to my room and close to the doors.
"Are we hiding?" Irene asked , standing by my bed. "I shall refusing every visitor then."
"Allow rilyn only." I told her. My friend was not being refused at my doorstep.
"Yes, your highness." Irene nodded, bowed and then left.
Highness.
I was granted the highest..
No, I was not thinking about it at the mont. Other things took priority at the mont.
One of them was actually sleeping so that I could get away with hiding from everyone.
I waited until Irene left and then I moved towards my bedroom. Staring at the bed with belonging, I remove my shoes before inching towards it.
A loud noise jolted my son out of my body and I turned around to move out of the bedroom and into the living area where I had heard it from.
Within a second, Chiara was standing in front of . "You!" She yelled, pointing her finger at , just as relyn appeared beside her.
"?" I pointed to myself.
She nodded before pulling up her skirt and charging towards . I imdiately started to take a few steps back, but she quickly ca towards , and then rub her arms around , before pulling towards her chest, and squeezing my body against hers.
"Why are you squeezing ?" my voice ca out muffled. What is she not aware that she was using her vampire strength against my human body?
"This is what my sister would have done if she was alive. She was finally going to have a daughter she always dread about. You, are now my daughter!"
Cold washed over my body as I finally moved my head to look at relyn who has the sa expression as . I did not like the words daughter and mother in the sa sentence when it ca to her and .
"Thank you for that." I pushed her a little bit, but Chiara did not understand what I wanted. Almost pulling myself away from her as free as I could, she finally let go, but then her hands stopped at my elbows.
"Thank you, Darling." She whispered and for once I noticed that her eyes were most. Could vampires do that? " You do not know what you have done. You have given us all hope for a steady future. You have given my nephew a life he has always dread about and watched everyone around it receive it. I promise you, my darling, I will never let anything happen to you or to your family. I will make sure I handpick the greatest of happiness and put them in your way."
Chiara sniffed and cupped my cheeks. "You have given the greatest happiness I wished for, and now I will make sure that you receive everything that I can get you."
Chiara was soone I always found condescending, especially when I t Tristan for the second ti when he was changed. But right now, I was eting the woman I had t when her nephew was still a human. She was kind, unguarded and passionate. I knew where her words were coming from and they were coming from her heart.
Each and every word was the truth and spoken from the bottom of her heart.
"I have not done anything to deserve such a place, Chiara—"
"Aunt or Auntie," she interrupted, "anything you may like to call but my na now. You are family."
My eyes went to relyn, who nodded. "Alright then, Aunt."
"Great." Chiara smiled and nodded. "Now, I know I disturbed your rest, so why don’t you go back to it? Or sothing even better, you can talk to rilyn!"
I nodded, at this point, I was just eager to get her out of my room. She left soon after in the sa sweet that she had co from, leaving and relyn alone.
"Sorry," She whispered as she walked closer, "I tried to stop her, but apparently the old woman is faster than she seems."
I smiled and waved away her concerns. Since I was still barefoot, I moved towards the bed and partially lied down on it before packing the other side. relyn mimicked my actions and we were both are lying on my bed while looking up at the roof.
"Do you know what this ans, relyn?"
"What?"
"I am getting to marry soone for love. Terrence would have been out of duty but marrying Tristan is.. out of love."
"I am happy for you." relyn smiled as she turned to look at . "I always pray to God that you got married for love and today, you have said yes to a proposal for the sa. I believe lenmore here is just a catalyst. You would have said yes to him in ti."
Sowhere or the other, I believe so too. I was always going to say yes to Tristan, but it was going to take so more ti to get used to. The safety and stability of my kingdom just ca first and pushed to do it much quicker.
"Has everyone been talking about it?"
"Oh yes," she then winced, "had you ears like mine, you would have heard them too. Thankfully, the king has told them to keep it down in front of you. Nobody wants to spook you."
"Spook ?" I chuckled. "How considerate of him."
Silence wrapped itself around us again. I was sure that she was thinking of the sa thing as I was, the future that was about to co revolving around my marriage.
The only thing I could hope for was that this marriage worked out for everyone including Tristan and I. Just this once, I wanted a marriage. My mother wanted to have for herself but failed to because of my father. Maybe, this was the saving grace I and Catherine could have.
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