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It was clear from his face that his plan was to spoil me so much that I would want more and ask for him to spend more time with me. He would get his wish but… It would change if I took his vow.
How long would he really stick around if I didn’t give him forever like he wanted? Then again, I’d done a lot of things differently than tradition and made my own path. Maybe there could be some level after engaged but not a whole forever unbreakable vow stupid?
Like how about just a normal marriage or something where we could get divorced if things didn’t work out? That sounded so much better.
Then again, that end sounded permanent, and would I have been able to say I wanted that with Darius, Cerdic, and Jaxon?
Unfortunately, my answer was immediately yes for one of them and pretty confident on a second. It made me incredibly sad which made me more bummed after having such a nice night and good start to a morning.
“Things will get better, My Princess,” Branko murmured as he walked me out. “Please have faith in that and hold on a little longer.”
I nodded, not having much of a choice. He was in a towel since he hadn’t brought clothes from his room and said he’d see me later after another kiss.
I smiled when I reached the dining room and saw Kristof was waiting for me. I’d missed him, but I felt okay that he wasn’t there. I’d been clinging to him as my complete support and felt so fragile like I would break without him that it made me feel stronger that I was okay.
And I needed to stop chastising myself that I wasn’t a baby because I needed someone to sleep with me at night. I was under a lot of pressure and scary ass shit. If I needed to feel protected after all I’d been through and not so alone then so fucking what?
I gave him a soft kiss, smiling when he seemed to search my face for how I was doing. We got our food and then when we were alone on the terrace, I promised him that it had been good and I was fine. Better than fine.
And so was he. He made a point to say he was looking forward to having a relaxing night with me, but it was a relief that he got so much done with the new coven coming in. He’d helped Jaxon speak with most everyone in that coven personally and small groups to go over the rules. Jaxon could handle the rest today and it was all settled.
Everyone had gotten their showers and—people were still scared, but it was a good start and they were appreciative.
I was glad because Kristof had a lot of pressure on him as well.
“The nobles have all returned with positive responses,” Kristof told me when we were done eating and had thanked the kitchen. “Sebastian asked for a sidebar first.”
I nodded, shocked we didn’t handle that before eating or have them even eat with us. I smiled when I saw in his eyes that he was putting me first. Everything was always a fire to put out or an emergency, and if we kept allowing that then nothing would be important one day.
And that wasn’t a good way to live either.
I also found out that Vitor had been taking down buildings into energy beads when he felt something off and had then scared off someone trying to set one of the warehouses on fire. So there was no damage to anything from Keres for once.
However, we also now had confirmation that she wasn’t working alone. It made sense that a princess that had been awakened would need nobles, but I wouldn’t think any would swear to the champion of Erebus.
But Ceawlin had no idea how evil Bahati had been either. Other nobles and their princesses too no matter the alliance needed.
I mean, Branko’s mother was clearly fucking nuts so… Yeah, people were trapped with evil princesses all of the time.
Or there was Olivia’s noble Denis who I was damn sure wanted someone evil to whisper bullshit to.
Either way, it was good to have the answers we needed. The more information we had, the easier it was to combat the fear and whispers of her power. I couldn’t move faster than any other vampire my age. We assumed she was my age or still pretty damn young.
However, she wasn’t hitting the same outpost or area every night. She was all over the map. I had thought maybe she’d stolen a vehicle we’d abandoned or grabbed one at an outpost. We’d left a ton in Boston that I’d fixed and charged up just because I didn’t know how to only use one option on my power then.
But now that we knew she had nobles… That was the answer.
Still scary, but less scary than the idea she could already move faster than she should.
We didn’t need to let her seem any scarier than being able to change the behaviors of the corrupted. That was already terrifying enough.
5
Nothing could have shocked me more than finding Sebastian standing with Nora’s Night. I hadn’t met her first love and the only other man she really considered her husband. She had only had children with them instead of just a noble and an alliance.
And I was worried why I was now.
“He is here for two reasons,” Sebastian said after greeting me and making introductions. “He will guard you in place of Vitor if you allow Vitor to come take down buildings for us in Ireland. We have so much cleared of corrupted, but people are leery of moving out if one could slip by and hide in a building already cleared.
