"Where," I spoke again, gathering that attention, "is the king?"
Marilyn hesitated which made look at Irene. Would she tell or would she be hesitant too?
"The King is.. um," she paused for a small minute, "away."
I narrowed my eyes. Obviously, he was away. But where was he? What was the last told whereabouts from him?
"Marilyn, please." I was tired and ready to sleep again, but I still wanted to know where Tristan was. It was a different thing if no one knew, but they did and they were not telling .
Marilyn answered, "he is away from you."
Again, that was not what I wanted to hear but it had made curious. "Why?" I asked. Marking was an attempt to keep closer to him so I had Tristan willingly gone away from ? It did not make enough sense to .
"Because the scent of your blood and his made the king a little.." she narrowed her eyes as she searched for the right word, "made the king a little out of control."
She continued, "because of which it was decided that the best course of action was to take him away and let you rest."
I frowned. "Out of control?"
"Yes," she quickly jumped in, "I an, I want you to stay as close as he got to you. He did not bite you or attack you or anything like that. She just really needed to be close to you."
"I see." It was fine then. Because I was not attacked or anything. He just wanted to be close and as long as Tristan did not hurt , I was alright.
I hoped.
"When is he coming back?"
"I do not know that. He left early in the night and I was not told where he went." She sighed. "Would you like to talk to Chiara?"
Chiara; I rembered her.
Chiara was one of the won I saw and the other one then beca her sister.
Tristan’s mother.
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Nandia, another one of my maids, poured hot water over my shoulders before going to pick a cloth and rub my skin with it.
Nandia was unmated. She looked relatively young as well. She did not have the maturity in her eyes like Irene did.
I had a whole group of people that were under the leadership of Irene who was in the room with Nandia. Apart from them, Marylin was the only one.
It seed like Irene had been able to grasp the concept that I did not want to et a lot of people. When Marilyn has asked the question of eting Tristan and, my expressions must have given my answer.
Though, I had answered her question. I needed a bath first.
The sll coming from even bothered not to ntion what would have happened to their vampire noses. I wondered how they had been standing next to for so long.
A bath with good slling oils was extrely necessary to . I slt bad and I hated that.
"Why would you not tell I slled bad?" Agitated, I questioned Marilyn. " You should have told . I wondered how are you stayed in the sa room."
Marilyn shook her head. "Slling, bad or not, was on the list of my concerns. I have to make sure that he remained alive—"
"What?" I frowned. Remained a life? Was I going to die?
Marilyn panicked and exchanged a look with Irene who gave her a resigned look.
"What?" I don’t to Irene. What was going on in between the two of them? How and when did they beco as thick as thieves?
"We don’t talk about it a lot because it does not happen very frequently. It’s quite rare so we do not discuss it." Irene explained.
"Sotis, humans that have less blood in them have the risk of dying. It’s happened in just a month of tis that we can count on our hands. Most of them live and get turned eventually. The ailnt that they might have also gets killed with the vampire blood in them."
"Vampire blood in them? Do I have vampire blood in ?" I did not know that. All I need was Tristan marking , there was no exchange of blood ntioned anywhere to .
Irene made an uncomfortable gesture. "Yes, it makes the bite heal quickly."
"Ah, yes. I rember that." That was what I was given when Marilyn and then Tristan had bit . That was what I have been told. Which had actually made the mark go away and I was awake the very next day. So, I did not make sense why I took seven days to heal from this bite.
With the presence of everyone around , I decided to not go and ask the question. So of that I wanted Irene to answer when we were alone. Not even Marilyn because she seed to be hesitating more than anyone.
Irene t my eyes across the bad that I was in. She seems to have got on to what I was thinking and gave
a very discreet nod of her head. She had thought of it too.
Nandia rubbed my body with a cloth twice before rinsing my body off. I was then wrapped around and ethical cloth that was going to try on my body before I moved behind the half wall and got dressed with the help of Irene.
I looked at rilyn when I ca back, half dressed in chemise and skirts. " This is going to take so ti. I have to beco more presentable, if I am to et people, would you like to go back to Allen?"
Her eyes visibility brightened, but she stayed quiet. "I want to be here with you."
"You have been with ." I reassured her. "You have to take a break from and co back just as quickly as you can and without anyone. I would just like to be in your company before anyone else cos in."
It had been easier to dismiss anyone when they were just under my employnt, but now Marilyn is just a friend, I have been in my life for the longest ti. Politely dismissing her was not an option, I just had to find the right words that are not offend her.
"Alright," she stood up and smiled brightly, " you won’t even miss because I will be back soon."
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