Chapter 74 - Accept My Blood As Apology

In the other sedan, Emmy was looking out of the window while Alex and Mike were on some heated discussion. Juliet woke up after a short nap and smiled sweetly at Emmy, " Nervous of meeting everyone as the only daughter of the great Esbertrazian guard?"

" Juliet, now my enemies are slowly coming into the light but I was thinking of my future, after avenging my parents, I don't know what I should do ?"

Juliet could feel that Emmy was anxious over these relationship things because her calm brain had started to panic. Starting a family and being bonded to one forever requires patience, love and great trust. In Emmy's case, she had a great rival, close to her family and really powerful. There are a lot of questions that needed to be answered before they could start living their lives.

" Emmy, past you don't remember, future we cannot predict. Just ensure one thing in your mind, in the present you are never lonely and in future, never would I allow anyone to bully you. Mark my words in your brain, my brother-in-law only has you in his heart."

"What if the one to bully me is your brother-in-law ? "

Juliet shook her head in defeat but she was glad that Emmy could overthrow the feeling being lost from now onwards. Seeing the women teasing each other, both Alex and Mike also joined the fun. Soon they reached the Salian clan, just minutes before the starting of the ceremony.

The guests were not allowed to see the groom and bride before the ceremony so Victor was absent from the scene but as his hawk eyes, Rasber had been in the lookout for the arrival of this particular group. He wanted to skin Alex alive but his train of thoughts got interrupted when he saw a woman getting down from the last sedan. Although she had a companion on her side, they didn't seem to be close.

Rasber's lustful eyes observed Kiara from head to her toes, his perverted mind had even started imagining this beauty on his bed and himself riding over her mercilessly. If Houlson came to know about what was going in Rasber's mind, the latter would have his skin roasted already by now.

After arrival, Alex and Mike straight away went to the Salian elders to pay their respect. On the way, the Salian brothers met the Salian king, Valeriander and his wife. Just as the brothers were going to turn away without greeting the king, the queen gave her sarcastic comment.

" You unfilial child, how dare you not to give greetings to your father, the great king of the Salian clan."

Alex did not turn back whereas Mike did, " first ask your husband whether he is fit to be called as a father. You have only one son and that person's marriage is taking place outside."

The flabbergasted queen looked at her husband who remained calm as if he hadn't heard any nastic comments passed Mike.

" That child has been brainwashed, let this marriage be over, I will personally take care of these two."

Assuring his wife, the Salian king went to see elders but he started to plot against that destitute once first. From the behaviour of the elders, it was well known that they all were standing on the crown prince's side

Meanwhile, at the altar, the guests were seated properly and everyone was talking about the attractive line of people sitting on the front row.

" Do you know that she is not at all a country bumpkin as it was rumoured, she is the daughter.. the only daughter of the great dark clan's most powerful guard."

" Oh really, no wonder the crown prince did not even look once at the battle princess." 

God knows who started it, another round of rumours had started to pass stating about the affairs between the second prince and the Agnartic princess. While entering the venue, Victor along with Arona heard what all things were people telling them. Just as Victor was to move forward, his eyes stopped at Emmy who was sitting beside the Posei girl and the other end was free. 

Victor literally left his new bride over the platform to talk with Emmy but his conscious mind made him realise his limits. He quietly clasped his wife's hand and walked forward on the pathway of red roses whereas Arona's eyes were searching for the person whom she was waiting for the past few days. She was still thinking that after proper explanation, Alex would take her as his wife. All the guests could see the bride daydreaming and the groom pulling his bride towards the first row.

Janet could see that the second prince was rushing towards them so she decided to warn her friends.

" Look, the second prince is coming for Emmy. Kiara, if he has other plans, we both will be taking care of him and Juliet with Eliza, please escort Emmy safely back to the Esbertrazian clan."

Emmy's heart was warmed up seeing her friends getting worried for her safety. She felt so fortunate to meet this bunch of people in her life.

" Girls, listen … with my identity now known, he would not dare to act openly. But beware of any drinks or food they are serving."

All five women nodded their heads and sat there watching the groom paving way amidst the crowd of guests.

" Lamia, you are looking more beautiful day by day, I can't believe it is probably just one week that we met last. Look at you, a piece of heavenly beauty. Oh yes, sorry to address you as Lamia, I must call you… Emmettina, right."

What Victor thought was seeing Emmy getting worried and surprised all together but the truth was neither did Emmy get surprised nor any of her friends. 

" Well, you shouldn't be calling me neither Lamia nor Emmettina, just call me sister-in-law with due respect. There comes your brother, we can together bless you to live long."

Alex was well prepared to tackle his stepbrother but seeing Emmy beating the shit out of him made him arrive little late. He wanted his brother to see that never mess with his woman. 

" Congratulations little brother on your big day". Alex gave a hug to Victor but slowly whispered in his ears, " Your end will arrive early, stop siding with the black world."

Victor was now sure that this woman was totally extraordinary, watching Alex take her away from him made Victor feel to strangle Alex then and there itself. The same expression was seen on the face standing near to Victor, here Arona wanted to kill Emmy on the spot because she could see Alex was behaving very intimately with that downgraded woman.

Making their wedding a disaster, both of them didn't have a mood to entertain the guests anymore. The ceremony was concluded soon and elders pronounced Victor and Arona as husband & wife.

Then the wedding feast began, after checking the food over the table, Mike and Jordan asked others to dig in the tasty, mouth-watering dishes. Suddenly Rasber came out of nowhere and casually tried to chat with Kiara but she didn't even bat her eyelids towards him. Leon and others were watching how Houlson would react if someone tries to woo Kiara and they didn't see that before leaving Rasber had completed his task of coming over the table.

Houlson excused Rasber saying that Kiara was unable to talk and she was accompanied by them so there was no need of Rasber lending hands to take care of her. After making him leave, Houlson finished off the wine from the glass kept in front of Kiara. Not only Leon, all the other members of their group understood that Houlson had some hidden feeling towards this woman.

Finally, after crashing the Salian wedding, the group decided to get back to the Esbertrazian clan before getting late. Similarly to the way they came, the last sedan had only Houlson and Kiara in it. Before boarding the sedan, Leon asked Kiara to confess everything to his brother and said they will be waiting for them in the castle.

Inside the sedan, Houlson was feeling a bit disoriented, he was sweating profusely and his body temperature started to rise. At first, Kiara was scared about how to start the conversation with Houlson but after his abnormal behaviour, she stopped the sedan and touched his forehead. She was surprised that Houlson was running a high temperature but why suddenly? He was really okay in the feast but then what happened?

Just as Kiara was going to get him some water, he grasped her hands tight and pulled her into his chest. Afterwards, the sedan was shaking violently and loud gasps were heard from inside. 

The next day early morning, Houlson woke up and he had his heart ripped out just as he opened his eyes. He could not believe what his eyes saw in front of him, the beautiful woman which made him forgot breathing, was now sitting stark naked in front of him with her head stooped over her legs. On her body, there were clear marks of the intense battle and her white porcelain skin now had blue-black bruises all over.

Houlson hurriedly looked over his body and he was also the way a newborn would be, on his chest, there were several teeth marks combined with scratches. Without thinking Houlson could imagine what had happened between them. Houlson quickly took his outer robe and covered Kiara with it. Still, she did not lift her heads up.

Houlson got dressed fastly and then also there was no response from her. Houlson gathered up his courage and placed both of his hands over her shoulders. She trembled and shivered at his touch, her reaction gave him the clear idea of how beastly was his performance.

She looked up and Houlson felt as if his heart got squashed because her neck and lips had brutal bite marks. His brain stopped working and there was a sudden pain over his chest. Without thinking, he kneeled down in front of her and slit his both arms.

" Forgive this sinner, accept my blood as the apology."