Chapter 121 - Fear

>>Nena

I shot my eyes open and found myself in my bed. I sat up immediately as the situation confused me.

What?

Why am I in my bed? I was in bed with Quincy!

Why!?!?

Fear crept around in my brain.

Shit! Don’t tell me that it was all a dream!! I shot my head towards my arm and pulled my sleeve up.

There was no injury

What the hell!?

My mind was completely blown. I stood up and ran to the full length mirror in my room to see my neck. It was clean and smooth like how it usually is.

No…

I fell down on my butt in despair. This can’t be happening…

No!

I didn’t waste much time getting out of my misery.

I can’t have dreamt it all! It was all too vivid for it to be a dream!

I bit my lips and stood up again. I have to find out what happened because I know it happened! I walked towards the door and opened it up in anger to run out and down the stairs to see Quincy but as I opened the door to run out I crashed into someone.

The big sturdy chest of a man made me bounce back and fall flat on my butt.

“Ow…” I glared up at the person but was weirdly surprised when I saw who it was, “Daddy?”

“Hey,” Alister, Quincy’s father, said, “I’m not your father yet.” He smiled at me, “But of course I don’t mind being called that.” He extended his arm for me, “I always wanted a daughter.”

I took his hand and stood up, “Why are you here?”

“Just came to check up on my son but he looks like he’s in trauma.” He shook his head in disapproval, “I thought you succeeded in your attempt to get together with him when Quincy came back home and said he was officially revoking his claim to the throne.” He took a deep breath, “But I come back here and the situation is God knows where.”

I think there was a lot of information in that paragraph just now.

“Quincy did what?” I was shocked, “Did something happen there?” I quickly caught the gist of it. He must have ended up in some sort of trouble there in the dark continent. That’s why he was gone for so long, “He came back looking like a child!”

“Well,” Alister rolled his eyes, “He had to fight a lot of people to get out from the place where he was being detained and it took him some time to plan a way out.” He moved his head around and looked around my room, “The king is very against him revoking his rights and wouldn’t let him go so in his final attempt he fought with the guards to escape. It was a tough battle and he barely escaped.”

“So is that why he was injured?”

“Yep,”

“But what’s with that child form?”

“That’s to preserve magic. He had to use a large amount of it to get away from the army that was guarding him.”

“An army was guarding him?” I was shocked at the news, “The king seems a little too obsessed here.”

Alister shrugged, “My brother had always been fond of him. He adores him a lot.”

Oh right, Alister if the Duke.

“His own children must be devastated.” I felt a little bad here but that was short lived.

Alister’s lips formed a straight line and he shook his head like a robot, “The king’s son, who’s the crown prince, is equally fond of Quincy. Both of them don’t want him to leave the royal status.”

“...” I was speechless. The crown prince doesn’t want his rival gone. Wow, I sort of pity Quincy. His family is a bit too ‘loving’, “And you do nothing about it?” I glared at my father in law to be.

“Quincy’s a grown man, he has to solve this on his own besides what can I do? I can’t fight the king.”

“What a useless father you are.” I huffed.

“Hey! In the vampire society trying to harm the royal family is straight treason, no matter what the intention is.”

“I don’t get it!” I was a little mad at the new info, “If they’re so fond of him shouldn’t they let him do what he wants?!”

Alister was quiet for a few moments, then sighed. His eyes suddenly became a little distant and I felt like he was going to say something serious.

“Quincy hasn’t come home once in the past twenty years.” The first line was heavy enough, “If I have to say honestly, we all feel one thing, Quincy’s status is what binds him to all of us back home. As his father I didn’t say anything against his decision because I don’t want to seem like I’m controlling or want bad for him but we all feel like if he breaks it off, he might never come back home.” His gaze dropped for a moment, “There are times I’m scared that my son doesn’t want to be with us.”

Out of everything I heard, this information was a little heavy, “I see,” It made sense. I guess Quincy cutting off his claim sort of also means he’s cutting off from his family and since he didn’t go back home at all, I can see why they all seem anxious.

This was something serious but I ended up smiling, then bit my lip to stop myself from doing that.

I can’t be happy right now!

I mean I am! He’s ready to throw away a whole kingdom and maybe his family too, to keep me safe!! Shit! I’m so happy I could die!! But don’t smile! I shook my head! Don’t smile!!

This may be good news to me but it’s bad news to his family!

I should talk about something else!

“But why would the guards hurt him if the king wants him to claim the throne?”

“The guards didn’t hurt him seriously.” He looked back at me, “When he used that explosive magic of his, he himself got caught in it. No one had anything against him. If anything, he’s too capable and the reason why the king wants to keep him.”

“Wow… So why does he want to revoke his rights?”

“It’s sad to see that in the past ten years you’ve made absolutely no progress with him.”

“Hey!” He was making me mad.

“I believe it was for you,”

All of my anger suddenly disappeared, “What?”

“He wouldn’t say it directly but he did it so all his potential spouses would go away. He said he wanted to keep you safe.”

My heart melted.

Oh My~

I giggled, “To keep me safe?” I was getting a little shy, “For me?” This was good news on top of good news for me.

I feel like I’m melting!!

“Well yea and I came here to check up on him since he got himself in a mess but I go to his room and see he’s traumatised and then I saw you who was almost dead.”

“Traumatised?” I was confused, “What happened?”

He gave me a smirk as he raised his eyebrows at me, “Don’t pretend like you don’t know..” He gave me a mischievous smile, “You were the one who did it.”