The Princess's Dangerous Vampire Mate-Chapter 233: The King’s order - III

"What culprit?" I whispered hurriedly.

Darius tilted his head. "Why are you worried?" He spoke as he wondered. " This should be the least of your concerns Genevieve." He bowed slightly, " now if you excuse me." He nodded and within the blink of an eye he vanished.

Diwal turned to me immediately, "Uh . . ."

"We should go," I glanced at the Diwal with worried eyes along with fear in them. That was what we could do. For all I know he was just bluffing. He must be. How was it his concern if any human in this country was bitten?

As we walked up the stairs to my room, I could not help but wonder if he knew whose blood it was?

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I was getting ready for dinner in my room. Dorothy was combing my hair and I enjoyed every bit of it. It had been a long time since I had my hair made. Dorothy made me a beautiful braid.

"It is lovely," I pressed as I ran my hand over the details. She had braided thin strands of hair before joining everyone into the long one that ran down my back.

"Thank you," she blushed and smiled. "Sir Solomon well not on your do when it is time to leave. Do you need me for anything else, Your Highness?"

Turning around, I shook my head, "No thank you Doro—"

The doors banged open and I jumped slightly at the noise. Merilyn walked in and closed the doors behind her but stopped when she saw me with Dorothy. "Uh.."

Understanding what she meant, I nodded and continued, "thank you Dorothy I don’t think I will be needing you further." 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

She nodded, bowing, "I shall check on you before you retire to bed." Merlin’s eyes watched the entire way to the door and then she stood silently.

I began to speak only for Marilyn to March towards the door and open it. "I think she asked you to leave." She snapped and then closed the door. "I cannot believe it! I always left when you asked me to and here they are listening through the door!"

"What can I help you with Marilyn?" I asked as I touched the braid, "you did not come here to escort me to the dinner."

She came closer but stood instead of sitting on the small chair next to the dressing table. " There will be no dinner for today. If you want I can ask the questions to save you in your room. The others are having it in the rooms too."

I frowned. "Why?"

She shook her head. " I don’t think it was supposed to come out but someone bit a human."

My eyes widened. "What? For real?"

She nodded. "It would have stayed hush hush but King Darius came to know and immediately told king Tristan about it. All can have strict policies regarding that which is why Aron is going to be punished now."

"Aron?" I recalled the interaction I had with him at the wagon port. I had teased him so much that he panicked completely. "He bit someone?" I found that hard to believe.

Merylin nodded. "He was struggling slightly with the bloodlust and it did not help, when in his defence, he told us that the human purposely cut their hand in front of him." She rubbed her forehead in distress. "We cannot make changes or make people fearless vande go around and tempt us with the only saying we have as our weakness."

"Darius knew?" That was on my mind.

Merilyn nodded. "Someone told him and he refuses to tell us the name. I think Sir Dawson would have kept quiet but now everyone knows Aron will be punished."

Oh my God, I realised, what have I done? I didn’t even know if someone else was in the rooms beside me and there was a human inside them with the bite mark bitten by none other than someone I knew!

I had just said that to Darius because I wanted to save Lysar and my knowledge about his whereabouts and the condition he was held. I had absolutely no idea how this horrifying turn could come.

I looked away and in the mirror. "What punishment would he be given?" I hid my fidgeting hands by playing with the braid.

"I do not know yet." She scored, "it really depends on what the king wants. It could be simple lashes and it could be a deadly punishment in the sun."

Deadly? "How is it the sun?"

"No one is born with sun protection. Everyone has one kind of enchanted jewellery. We always have it on us." She held her Necklace out to me which she had taken out from under her dress. "This is mine."

I stared at it before nodding. My heart pounded very loudly and I knew that Merilyn could tell because Tristan could easily do so. I called on Aron. I did that.

"You do not need to worry princess," Merylin rested her hand on my knee. "You have no fault here."

This entire event could have gone unnoticed and he would have won and been punished. If the human had slit its wrist in front of Aron knowing what would happen then he was at fault not the vampire.

"Why is Tristan not considering the defence of his friend?"

Merilyn leaned back, taking her hand off of my knee. "Well, we do need to win the favour of humans and to get rid of their fear the king needs to be. . . A little biased towards their side." Her face twisted and she was not happy with what was happening.

Neither was I.

An idea crossed my mind. I had stopped Tristan from punishing merilyn which meant that I might be able to do the same here. Aron was not at fault.

"Where is he?" I asked her and she widened her eyes.

"Why?" She whispered hurriedly. "Don’t." She warned but by the time she had warned me I had already stood up and was walking towards the door.