Chapter 169 I'm Sorry.

An abandoned city where not a single soul was present. The eerie silence and the gust of summer wind. At this moment in this seemingly abnormal place. A few golden lights appeared out of nowhere followed by the appearance of several vampires.

"We are here," Louis uttered.

"Wow, sir. That was amazing. It only took a few seconds." Peter one of the young counts expressed his shock.

"Oww sis, do you want to pinch me to death?" he screamed in pain.

"Behave yourself, don't forget where you are," Mary said coldly.

"Please forgive him, sir,"

Louis waved his hand gesturing he doesn't mind. Little Aurora was also curiously glancing everywhere. But before she could run around anywhere she was stopped by Louis.

"Daddy~ please~"

But Louis didn't reply to her and his brows furrowed. Feeling that something was wrong Aurora didn't throw a tantrum. She was still a sensible kid.

Louis closed his eyes and his expression became a little serious.

'Am I... Imagining things?'

"Niles.." Before he could continue his phone rang. Seeing the caller id his expression relaxed.

'Sith? Sure enough, he was just late.'

With a relaxed expression, Louis picked up the call.

[We have been betrayed. *Stab* *Splurge*]

Soon after another deep voice came.

[Dead?]

[Yes. But, it seems he already reported the news.]

[Does it matter? they are already trapped. Crush that phone.]

*Crack*

*Beep*

Silence.

Thousands of thoughts rushed inside Louis' mind. He couldn't understand where he went wrong.

What did he hear? They were betrayed?

Who betrayed them? Everyone here is a close person.

But what if?

No, no, no. That's not possible.

Louis's mind was on the verge of breaking. Seeing his wronged expression Aurora tugged his clothes and asked in her soft voice.

"Are you okay? Daddy~"

Seeing Aurora's worried expression Louis calmed down.

"Yeah." He replied while rubbing her little head.

"Claire, Niles, take care of Aurora." Saying that Louis' eyes turned to his most trusted vassals. With whom he had been for years. They went through life and death together. People whom he thought of as family. Second only to Aurora and Claire.

Those people whom he trusted the most.

One of them betrayed him? How funny right?

"Who is it? Tell me now." His words were calm but the terrifying blood lust behind them could be felt even from afar.

Feeling Louis' bloodshot gaze everyone was terrified. Few of them even knelt as their legs went numb in fright. Not because they were weak, but because this was the first time they had seen Louis act like this. They didn't dare fight their lord. But one of them still stood there with a mocking smile on his face.

It was none other than Phil Gregory, Louis' so-called best friend.

Louis' lips trembled. He couldn't believe it. He doesn't want to believe it. But he still asked.

"Was... Was it you... Phil?"

"I was what?" Phil asked calmly pretending not to understand Louis' words.

"Did... Did you... betray me?" While saying the last two words Louis felt some pain in his heart.

When others heard this, they were shocked. What did their lord mean by that? Phil and Lord Louis have such a great relationship. How could he betray him? Aren't they like brothers?

But when they heard Phil's reply they felt like their hearts might jump out of their mouth.

"Yeah, so what?" Phil asked casually. In the same normal tone whenever he chats with Louis.

Seeing that Phil didn't even bother giving excuses, Louis' heart ached. Is this the same person he had known for all these years?

"Why?"

"Why? It's simple. You were great, your future should have been awesome. The same goes for the people close to you. But you chose to marry a human and ruined everyone's future. Just like mine."

"If you didn't do anything unneeded. You could have become the ruler and me, your best friend and your most trusted confidant would have supported you to the best of my abilities. We would have ruled all the vampires together."

"You ruined everything. So don't blame me. I can only support the next heir, Lord Valor. Your value is worthless."

Phil expressed his dissatisfaction while putting all the blame on Louis' shoulders.

Louis gritted his teeth and wanted to say something. But suddenly he sensed a lot of people coming in their direction.

There's no time.

"Kret, Niles. Follow plan B. Now."

Louis commanded and gave a full-power punch to Phil. As his fist went through Phil's body covered in blood and left a hole in it.

Phil was shocked.

"Y-You, How co-could you?" He asked weakly.

"What? You can betray me I can't even kill you. Isn't that unfair?"

Blood splurged out of Phil's mouth. But Louis knew Phil won't die with just this much, after all, he is a duke-rank vampire.

So with a sad expression on his face and a grieving heart. Louis directly chopped off his head.

No one had any qualms about this. This is what he deserved. Louis turned to look back and saw that Claire was covering Aurora's eyes. He was grateful for Claire's actions, he didn't want to be a murderer in his daughter's eyes. But unfortunately, that wish was impossible. Today he will kill a lot of people and may even die here.

'My daughter, forgive daddy. I a not a good father.'

"Peter and Mary, you go with them. Protect them, please." Louis said while holding back his emotions.

Louis walked towards Aurora and Claire and gave them a tight hug.

"I'm sorry,"

Saying that he loosened the hug and with the other counts he was ready to block the attackers.

Aurora didn't understand what happened. But her mother did and she was devastated. Though she wanted to cry this was not the time.

"Bye Dear." With those words, Claire left with Aurora and the others.

"Mom, what about Daddy? Why did we leave him?" Aurora asked.

Holding back her tears, Claire said.

"Your Daddy has something to do. Let's go first."

Emily, Niles, Kret, Peter, and Mary followed them.