The Crown's Seduction
Chapter 318: Locked Up

Chapter 318: Locked Up

Days passed by, and Zoran remained locked in the secret chamber with Fritz never leaving his side to closely monitor his condition. With how much his freedom was being kept from him, he almost felt like an experiment with what the man was doing to him. Currently, he was sitting before him who was obviously currently testing his appetite.

"Whose blood are these?" he murmured with a deep frown as he stared at the bottles of blood on the table before him. He could tell that they were fresh human blood, and he was really uncomfortable just looking at them.

"Just check them and see what will sate your appetite," Fritz snorted as he told him. "No point wasting time now."

Sighing, Zoran lazily looked at each bottle. Predictably, none of them really appealed to him.

"I don’t like any of them," he murmured.

"Are you sure?" Fritz dubiously asked. "They’re freshly collected, you know."

"Then drink them for yourself if you want," Zoran scoffed.

Raising a brow, he watched Fritz shrug before drinking from all the bottles as if he were taking a shot to have a boost.

"Ahhh... These are good," Fritz hummed after finishing each small bottle. "Anyway, let’s see how you’ll react to this then."

From there, he then grabbed a box from the table. Watching from where he sat, Zoran noticed that the box had a protected spell around it for some reason. From what he could tell, it was a spell preventing him from checking what was inside it using his keen senses.

So instead, he simply waited, wondering what Fritz had in store for him this time.

As soon as Fritz opened the box, Zoran’s forest-green eyes immediately turned red. He growled as he caught that fruity scent he had been craving for all these days. His sharp eyes glared at the bloodied handkerchief that Fritz pulled out from the box.

"Give me that!" Zoran barked, his fangs elongating as he reached out for the handkerchief. However, Fritz was fast to put it back in the box.

"Wow, Devon really did mess you up with you big time..." Fritz shook his head as he scolded him in disbelief. "The blood in this handkerchief belongs to your wife! How could you think of her as your meal?!"

"But I want her blood. The smell of her blood is so delicious, Fritz!" Zoran reasoned with a growl. "Give me the handkerchief now!"

He just couldn’t help himself. He wanted so badly to have a taste of it if only to stop the hunger within him. Again, there was this urge inside him, and that woman’s face appeared before his head. His imagination was running wild again as he saw himself sinking his fangs deep into her skin to drink her blood.

"Can you just at least let me have a taste of her?" Zoran asked with a sigh. "She’s my wife, right? I’m sure she’ll agree to let me feed on her."

His shoulders slumped as he realized how badly he wanted her blood. Again, it was so bad that he began daydreaming about her every time he thought of her.

"You’re having these weird symptoms for a new vampire. It is well known that all of King Nikolai’s Scions shared the same appetite as him," Fritz muttered to himself as he stared at him. "None of them drank human blood to sate themselves since animal blood is enough for them. But you... You’re different, and yet also share the same situation as our king except that Nikolai only craves for the Queen’s blood during a full moon."

Zoran frowned. How many times had he heard of this explanation? Apparently, he only craved this Dahlia’s blood, and that she was his wife...

"There would be no problems if you could control yourself around Dahlia... but looking at you now, you’ll end up killing your own wife that you’ve been trying to protect with your own life for all this time, Zoran," Fritz told him with a dark expression on his face.

"Can’t you do something like break whatever Devon has done to you so that you’ll be able to remember her? You obviously love her more than your life. She’s worried, and she misses you a lot by now. She’s been begging and asking King Nikolai every day to see you, but... How could you be such a hopeless case right now?" He let out an annoyed grunt as he began to fan himself again.

"Seriously, you two can’t be together unless you can control your urge to drain her of her blood! Ah, this is really heart-wrenching!"

Despite everything that was just said to him, Zoran really didn’t care as a smile tugged on his face. "Maybe I can work on something like a spell for myself or a spell to take away the scent of her blood," he suggested.

"Right! Why don’t you think more carefully?" Fritz encouraged him. "Your memories about everything are intact except for Dahlia’s, so I’m sure you can try a few spells that can work out since you’re good at it."

"Perhaps... Still, it will take time since I feel weird," Zoran explained with a sigh. "Something is missing. Like there’s this huge abyss inside my head and it’s affecting my spellcraft."

There was no denying it, unfortunately. His emotions and memories were all over the place, and he hadn’t gathered himself enough just yet.

"That’s understandable since it’s only been more than a week since you turned into a vampire, not to mention that you basically had an infusion of Nephilim blood on top of that," Fritz explained with yet another sigh. "Still, you’ve been taking far too long in controlling your urges as His Majesty’s Scion. All his Scions only took a day to compose themselves."

"Hmm... There’s this spell I have in mind, but I’ll need her blood," Zoran suddenly suggested. "Can you get me a bottle of my wife’s blood so I can try if the spell will work?" There was nothing inside his head really except for having a taste of her blood. He felt like he would go crazy with this burning thirst inside of him for his wife’s blood. Just a lick...

Seemingly having an idea of what was going on, Fritz immediately narrowed his eyes at him. "No! If you had a taste of her blood now, you’d just end up asking for more," he scolded. "I’d rather ask one of Her Majesty’s ladies to create a spell for you instead! You bastard, you shouldn’t think about her like that. That poor woman... If she finds out that you’re acting like this, it will truly break her heart. Can’t you just work harder and do something?"

Zoran could feel how Fritz was already getting impatient with him. It was very obvious how he felt bad for Dahlia because of his current state right now. And how much as he tried to recall her, there was really nothing popping inside his head regarding his so-called wife.

"Look at you getting so worked up," Zoran chuckled. "Fine. Go and quickly ask a mage for a spell. I’ve been locked up in here long enough."

"But I can’t leave you alone even if I wanted to," Fritz replied with a frown. "What if you go out on your own while I’m gone? I can’t trust you."

Zoran blinked as he rolled his eyes. "I just want to get this over too, Fritz. I don’t have plans of being locked up in here for far too long. And besides, I also want to get to know more of my wife," he said with a serious tone. "You said that I love her so much that my own life didn’t even matter to me so long as I could save her even though I can’t remember her... I am at least curious about her."

Fritz took a deep breath and then said, "Tell me, can’t you really feel anything at all inside your heart? I mean you may not remember her but I believe your feelings there will remain for her."

There was a terse silence as Zoran fell in a deep thought. "I only saw her once Fritz and not to mention that it was when I first opened my eyes as a vampire. There was nothing in me at that time, except extreme hunger. How about this, maybe you can let her inside so I can have a perfect look at her? Who knows, I’m tamer right now so... maybe we can start seeing each other? Of course, with you around so you can protect her from me if I ever ended up you know..."

Fritz’s face crumpled as he snorted, "Isn’t it enough that I’m the one babysitting you right now? And now, you even want me to become a third wheel between you and your wife? Maybe I should ask the King to assign one of his Scions to you instead since I’m already done with my experiment on your blood. Everything seems normal and your body is already adjusting well except for your extreme hunger for your wife!"