Married To The Mad Vampire Lord novel Chapter 247

Chapter 247: Time in the basement_Part 2

Belle moved through the dark basement until she reached the far wall. Behind an old shelf, she found the hidden wooden door Rohan had once shown her before her stomach had grown to this size, and she saw him leading Rav to bring in ice to store. She pushed it open, and a rush of cold air escaped.

It was the ice cellar, small, damp, and carved into the ground. Blocks of river ice lined the corners, insulated with straw and sawdust. In a crate near the coldest side, several dark bottles glinted in the dim light.

She reached for one of them, the cold biting her fingers. Not wanting the cold to escape, she hurriedly closed the space back to how it was and moved back, her fingers trembling as she brought the bottle closer to the heat of her lamp to heat the blood. She knelt before the cellar, waiting patiently for it to finish heating.

It took longer than expected for the blood to at least warm up. She would have taken it back to the kitchen if she didn’t fear that one of the guards would walk in on her like she knew they always did occasionally when she was in the kitchen. No matter what, she must not let them see her do this.

Belle was still waiting for the blood to melt when she felt a sudden presence in the basement, and she stiffened, her heart dropping into her stomach at the thought of someone coming in here.

But before she could panic more than necessary, she caught sight of a black cloak from the corner of her eye and slowly, subtly turned in that direction. Her eyes widened, and her heart sank deeper into the pit of her stomach.

A Grim Reaper!

Not wasting time, Belle hastily tore her eyes away from the Reaper and looked back at the bottle, trying to calm her heart and not show that she could see it. What was a Reaper doing in the basement?!

She might not know much about these creatures, but she did know one thing, they only appeared in places where someone was about to die. Just like that time in the forest during the hunt, when she had seen a reaper.

And now, here in the basement... what was it doing here?!

Although the Grim Reaper wasn’t looking in her direction, the fact that it was still there was terrifying and nerve-racking. With trembling hands, she decided to hurriedly finish what she was doing and leave—get away from the creature of the dead, whose scythe was clutched in front of it and its cloak was pulling behind it as it began to move further away from her, deeper into the darkened part of the basement, believing she couldn’t see it.

When the blood was warm enough, Belle uncapped the bottle and then stared down at the red liquid inside it. She had never thought a day would come when she would be drinking blood, but before she could even think about it or dread having it, her son seemed to take control of her movement, and the blood was in no time flowing down her throat as she gulped it down.

She did not bring the bottle down until it was empty. Belle could not believe she had just drunk blood and not felt disgusted, in fact, it felt like the most natural thing to do, like she had done it many times before.

Immediately, she felt the life inside her settle, satisfied with the blood, and the pain inside her began to fade away like it had never been there. Her muscles felt weak, and she knew she needed to sleep to regain her lost energy, but she had to go back inside to do that.

Belle was attempting to stand up when she heard another sound from the basement door, but thinking and believing it to be the Grim Reaper who had walked in that direction, she did not panic and proceeded to stand—until she turned in the direction to leave, and then she froze in shock. The empty bottle of blood fell from her grip to the floor at the sight of the person before her.

One of the guards stood right in front of her, his sword held towards her and his eyes taking in the bloodstain on her mouth and the bottle she had dropped.

"Bloody hell, you’re a vampire," he muttered, not believing how none of them had failed to notice, or how she had passed the test when no other vampire had. He had been keeping an eye on the lady, and when she left her chamber to come here, he had noticed it but did not follow her immediately so she wouldn’t suspect she was being followed.

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