Betrayed By The Hero, Loved By The Lord
Chapter 169: Regret (1)

Chapter 169: Regret (1)

Cassandra took a sigh of relief for having a moment to herself. She sent all the cooks out of the kitchen so she could prepare blood for Gabriel.

She was lucky to have him visiting the palace and awaited the moment the queen would send an invitation for her but the wait was long.

Cassandra wanted to be in the palace now but Gabriel wasn’t of any importance to have visitors to the palace. Especially a human. She thought of carrying lunch for him but she would be seen as the lunch.

Cassandra poured the blood they bought from a woman in desperate need of money. Cassandra couldn’t go on letting Gabriel sink his teeth into her skin to drink each time he needed blood. She was going to faint if not for buying blood.

Cassandra poured the fresh blood into a glass, filling it only halfway. She set the bottle with blood to the side. ’What a fool,’ she thought.

Gabriel listened to her about her jealousy regarding him biting other women. Cassandra said it was too sensual so Gabriel would receive his blood from a glass.

Cassandra smiled, pulling out a small bottle which was far more expensive than anything Gabriel could ever offer her. She only had a little so she needed to use it well.

She allowed for two drops to fall into the glass of blood then quickly covered the small bottle and placed it out of sight. Cassandra could not wait for the church to start their bigger plans to rid the kingdom of purebloods. She would act on her own.

’I already have the king’s attention,’ Cassandra thought.

Gabriel’s usefulness was running out so she didn’t need him anymore.

Rather than pour the full bottle of holy water into his blood to kill him now, she would slowly do it so suspicion wouldn’t fall on her. Cassandra could always point fingers at Selene or Xavier.

After all, the gossip of Selene being the one behind Lucinda’s death was not entirely gone.

Cassandra poured the remainder of the blood into the glass and stirred it with the spoon to hide any trace of what she had done. She was curious about what a little holy water would do to a vampire after they consumed it.

Would she be fortunate to have Gabriel so weak that he could barely move? She would keep him in bed and run the home by herself.

Cassandra headed for where Gabriel trained outside. Something happened in the palace to upset him but he wouldn’t tell her what it was. Did he finally realise how small and insignificant he was?

It was about time that Gabriel stopped hanging onto being called the hero when he did nothing to deserve it. He was handed a victory so he could be used.

"Gabriel!" Cassandra called out to him when she reached outside. "I have your blood. Gabriel!" She called again after no answer.

It was impossible that he did not hear her. Was Gabriel going to act like his hearing was suddenly going bad?

"Gabriel!" Cassandra called again, this time her voice was void of the sweet tone Gabriel liked to hear.

Gabriel turned around, finally acknowledging Cassandra. "I said I don’t want to be disturbed when I train."

"Then you are confusing me since you asked for blood and I have returned with it. Should I have kept it out? You wouldn’t drink it then," Cassandra replied.

Cassandra remained at a reasonable distance away from Gabriel. With the sword in his hands, there wasn’t any telling what he could do.

"Have I upset you in some way, Gabriel? Since you’ve returned home, you’ve been in a foul mood. I am more than willing to listen to your troubles. In case you have forgotten, I am your wife now," Cassandra reminded Gabriel. "We must speak."

Gabriel didn’t have any interest in speaking to Cassandra. All he wanted was the blood and then to be left alone. Was it so much to ask for?

Gabriel dropped his sword and approached Cassandra to take the glass from her hands. "You haven’t upset me and nothing is bothering me."

Cassandra didn’t believe him but she didn’t want to push it any further to upset him. "Good. I was worried our love might change now that we are married. I always want love to remain as the first time we fell in love. Promise me that it will."

"I love you, Cassandra. I wouldn’t have done all that I did to get you here just to stop loving you. You shouldn’t have those unnecessary thoughts when our marriage is going so well. Focus on having a child," said Gabriel.

It was a hard task for Cassandra to not frown. Again with a child. He was married to Selene far longer than he was to her yet he didn’t have a child well on the way with Selene. Why was Gabriel putting so much pressure on her now?

’Is it because of his mother?’ Cassandra wondered.

Was Gabriel so foolish to think having a child would fill the hole of not having his mother around?

If he was smart, Gabriel would celebrate not having his mother meddling in his life. Cassandra certainly did.

Still, Cassandra smiled since she had a role to play. "You are right. I am thinking of silly little things. You should drink quickly so I can leave you be."

Gabriel drowned the glass of blood in one go. He preferred to take it right from a woman’s skin but tried to please Cassandra. It was only when he was away from her that he could drink as he liked.

Gabriel handed the empty glass back to Cassandra who took it without any further chatter and returned instead. He had been rude to not answer when she called out to him but Gabriel was angry at something he heard today.

Gabriel went for his sword on the ground. A wooden target badly beaten by his sword connecting with it was placed before him.

"Those bastards," Gabriel muttered, angered by the memory of what was said by the men in court.

They called him the kingdom’s hero in a mocking tone which hadn’t upset him but then it was how they spoke poorly of him for marrying a human which prompted his early return home.

In a palace filled with vampires, marrying a human which was to be their meal was a joke to many. Gabriel had to listen to others questioning his choice to get rid of a pureblood for a human.

Now he was referred to as the crazy hero.

Gabriel wanted to kill the men making the jokes but it wouldn’t be any use. He wouldn’t succeed in killing purebloods and he might be sent out of the palace.

Gabriel whacked his sword against the wood. He wanted the jokes to stop before they reached the king’s ears. He was told by the king to take a vampire as his wife leaving Cassandra as his mistress. Gabriel didn’t want the king to see that keeping Cassandra was backfiring on him.

Despite what was said about the Harrisons, many thought he should have held onto Selene since she was a pureblood and at least had a child with her.

Seeing how his peers joked about his marriage, Gabriel started to second-guess his decisions when it came to how he ended his first marriage.