Chapter 476 - Samobian (13)
"Yes," Brantley nodded. "We are having it after so many years that everyone is over-excited." He looked at his wife as if giving her a silent thank you.
Dawn smiled. "True. If it was , even I would have been very excited." She stopped and turned to look at Brantley and Bianca. "I hope that the two of you have a baby by the ti I co here for the next Samobian!"
Bianca beca scarlet red and her toes curled as she lowered her head. Brantley's lips curled up. He gave her a fond look.
For the rest of the ti in the dining hall, Brantley kept the conversation limited to anything but Sedora. Every ti Bianca would open her mouth to talk about her, he would start with another topic. He ignored every talk about Sedora. Bianca grew uneasy. She wanted answers and he was eluding them. At the end, when Dawn left for her room and they ca to their bedchamber, Bianca couldn't hold it any longer. "Why aren't you talking about Sedora?"
"I don't want to," he replied calmly as he took his shirt out. His voice was curt and clipped.
"But I want to know more about her!" She said with her hands on her waist.
"It isn't necessary." Another short reply.
"But Brantley—"
"Bia!" he almost said nacingly. "I don't want to talk about that woman. Our life is going on smoothly. She is inactive and not doing anything. Probably she won't do anything."
"What if she does?" asked Bianca, totally bewildered at his disposition.
He gritted his teeth and went to his clothes closet to change without answering her. When he erged, he was wearing a dark blue silk night suit. He saw her standing in the sa dress gaping at him.
"Do I look so dashing, even in my nightwear?" he asked with a raised eyebrow.
She ignored his statent and said, "You are evading my question. You must tell about Sedora. You know her better than my mom and she told that you can teach magic."
Fury rose in his chest. His voice was like a hot volcano coming out of a snow-capped mountain when he said, "I don't want to talk about her."
She walked close to him and craned her neck to look at him. With flinty eyes she said, "I have the right to know. Those people tried to kill you. I saw an axe in your head when you tried to save ." Brantley could feel her anger increasing with every heartbeat.
She said through clenched teeth, "I will not let that happen again! Upon my dead body!"
"Bia!" he shouted and suddenly wrapped his arms tightly around her—so tight that she couldn't move, so tight that she felt crushed. He pressed her to his chest. "Why— why did you say that? Why?" His shoulders shuddered as he held her. "I don't want to lose you. The re thought gives chills. I feel like— like, I can't breathe… I'd rather die than letting you face any danger. I— I have got after waiting for two thousand years. Do you think I will let you face that woman again?" He shook his head. "My life is too beautiful to even think about it. I have just got you. Please let live, please Bia…" The thought of losing her killed him.
The way he spoke, she lted in his arms. "Brantley…" she whispered. The man who said 'I will always be there for you,' was holding on to her like she was the last straw to hold on to his dear life in an ocean. "I didn't an that. I just— I just want to know about her so that I am prepared."
Her statent made his body quiver. He picked her up and carried her to the bed. He turned her back to his chest and spooned her tightly. "You are my Bia… mine. No one can take you from … I will kill them. I will murder them for you… My beautiful Bia… mine…"
His protectiveness was overwhelming. She kissed his arms, which were tucked beneath her neck. Her man was so gorgeous, so strong and yet so… emotionally stunted.
They stayed in that position for what seed like eternity. When she felt that he had cald down, she said in a low voice, "I am not going anywhere…"
He buried his face in her hair and inhaled her scent. "I am not letting you go anywhere. I don't want to talk about Sedora." His body shuddered against her. She had been with him for less than a month and the thought of her facing Sedora plagued him. He just wanted the situation to remain the way it was. He had waited for eternity to be with her so patiently, and now he wouldn't waste a minute of losing her, of having a day without her.
Bianca knew that this wasn't the right ti to talk about Sedora. Maybe he was right. Maybe the woman was inactive. Maybe… just maybe she was dead… She took a deep breath and closed her eyes. But there was one thing—she would kill Kar'den. She would chop his hands and feed them to crows. In his protective hold, Bianca drifted off to sleep. And her dreams were filled with the faces of Og'drath and Gayle and his bloodied neck. When she woke up with a start, she found herself on him, clutching his chest like a baby. He was sleeping with his hands around her, snoring softly. Even though her body was drenched with sweat, she found herself smiling at her mate.
By the ti it was evening, Holly had entered with their tea. She dressed her up in a yellow gown that was in a straight line till her ankles. Embroidered with blood red silk thread with large roses, the dress looked perfect for Samobian. "All of them will be looking at you, Your Highness. You should be a vision of hope and love," she said as she made her wear another diamond tiara on her head. This ti again her red hair was hanging loose in curls.
Looking every bit regal, they walked out of their bedchamber, hand-in-hand. In the main hall, they t Dawn and Darius who were dressed formally. Brantley created the portal and they were about to step in it, when a servant walked in. He was panting and there was sweat on his face as if he had run.
"Your Highness, queen's father, Daryn Silver and her uncle, Caleb Silver have just arrived at the gates of the castle through a portal. We have opened the portcullis for their group to enter."
Dawn's eyes beca wide and she couldn't hold herself. She hurried to the gates.
"What do you an 'their group'?" asked Brantley.
"They have co with ten horsen all of whom are scorers," the servant inford.
It was already ti to go to Samobian. Hardly fifteen minutes were left for them to attend the closing ceremony. He waited with Bianca to receive them. If Daryn had co from Ixoviya with Caleb, then it was surely urgent. The fact that ten sorcerers accompanied him—it was sothing that needed imdiate attention. His jaws clenched in anticipation.
Daryn walked in the main hall with Dawn on his side and Caleb behind them.
"Uncle!" Bianca and Darius exclaid and they rushed to hug their father and Caleb.
From their looks, Brantley's dread heightened.
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