Forced Bride Of The Vampire Lord

"Wait! What are you…" Freya glared at the witches who left her and joined Hazel but they just shook their heads.

"We only wanted peace and freedom. You told us that war is the only way, you said killing vampires would bring peace for us. But if we can get it without shedding blood what was wrong in it?" they asked back in a confused tone when Freya stared at them with a pale face and gritted teeth.

"How can you forgive them? They have killed many of us!" she retorted when the witch shook her head.

"And we have killed many of them. For our experiments, for our magic and for our powers. We have killed many humans and vampires to make potions that work better." many of them nodded their heads.

"....." Freya and Diana stared in silence when only a few of them left while the rest of them chose to support hazel.

"Mother!" Diana stared at Scarlet with disbelief when she chose to stand behind Rafael and Hazel too, leaving her alone.

"I have told you to show patience and try to win his heart or leave. I have never thought that you would collaborate with the witches and try to kill all of us. I never thought I would be so disappointed in you." she snapped and then looked away as if she did not recognize Diana.

"Wait.. it was all planned by them, mother. It was a trap. They knew what I was doing from the start. That was why they were here to stop me. They have trapped me, I am innocent." Diana claimed with tears in her eyes as she tried to hold the hands of her mother but Scarlet jerked her hands away and slapped her instead, shocking her.

"They trapped you? Ha! Did they force you to choose the witches over vampires?" she asked in a cold tone as she stared at her stunned daughter who was looking back at her with disbelief.

"But.." Diana did not know what to say.

"Rafael had told me that you will be supporting witches if the war broke and I told him that you are my daughter. Arrogance and love for your people is in your bones and you would never do anything that would harm vampires. But you prove me wrong! For the love of the vampires, what were you ever thinking when you helped them in making weapons made by Beryllium? If hazel had not given us our healing powers.. I don't even know what would have happened tonight!" she shook her head and looked away but disappointment and hurt was clear in her voice.

All her life, she had told her kids that vampires are superior to others. She hated hazel, yes! But that was because she was not a vampire. She could not believe Diana betrayed them.

Diana bit her lips hard as she stared at her mother leaving her. She had always been assured, no matter what happens, Scarlet would support her and Rafael would never go against Scarlet. She was like a mother to him.

But now.. When the need arose, even her mother was betraying her! No! She was not going to let that happen so easily.

"You can not leave me like this to save yourself. You are forgetting that I know all of your secrets. If you betray me, I will not leave you unscathed too." she warned Scarelt who paused in her tracks and her eyes flickered when Diana smirked.

She turned to look at Rafael who was staring at them with narrowed eyes.

"Did you see that! My mother would still support me. Do you still throw me out or imprison me? Would you hurt the daughter of the woman who had saved your life sacrificing her own husband, my father, to keep you alive and take care of you all your life without a complaint?" she asked in a cold tone as if Rafael was ungrateful.

"Did you forget what had happened that fateful night when the humans had attacked us and your parents died in the war? You were going to die with them too. But my father.. He placed himself in danger to save you and took you out from the burning house.

Did you forget that my mother could save only one of you but she gave her blood to you instead of your father and took you in her custody. Whatever you are today is because of our sacrifices. But all you have thought about is.. Hazel.. How ingrate you could be!" she berated him when Rafael clenched his fingers into a fist but did not reply.

Hazel looked at them in confusion, even when she had gotten her past memories, she was sure Rafael had never talked about his family.

Killing vampires by fire was impossible. They were agile enough to run away. Could it be witches that had supported humans in that so-called war?

Was that the reason he had hatred for the witches and humans from the start?

She tried to hold his hands but he did not turn to look at her.

"Did you forget all those years when she taught you how to protect yourself? When she stays awake all night making sure that you sleep peacefully or have you never remembered them in the first place?" taking the benefit of his silence, Diana knew that she still had a chance.

If she kept pressing his weak nerves, she was going to get her freedom back and maybe he would finally accept her as his lover too.

If only she had not listened to her mother and had used this trick earlier. But it was not too late, now that her mother had shown her that she would leave her if needed, she did not care about her warnings either. She stared at the pale face of her mother as she took a step closer to Rafael and held his hands as she asked,

"Tell me Rafael, are you going to hurt the child of the man who had given his life to save you?"