The Masked Vampire King's Accidental Bride

”I am sorry, King Eros. I won’t give you useless hopes only to break them at the crucial stage. It depends on how she will take the news,” the nanny said before walking out.

The scene changed again, and this time, it was the garden of the palace.

The king was facing the rose garden with a neutral expression while some other lady stood beside him.

This time also, the face of the lady wasn’t visible, and Nathaniel tried to look at her features, trying to see if he could find something from it. However, the more he concentrated, the more blurred her figure became.

It was probably because these were supposed to be faded memories?

”So this is it?” The lady asked. Her voice was almost similar to the lady in the field. Does it mean they were the same person?

”Can I trust you to take care of my child? I will give up my powers to my child. I can’t let my wife die, and I would die every day with the thought that I could do something to save my child, but I didn’t. This is an ancient method that I found in the forbidden books,” the king said.

”Forbidden book? You were reading them? Don’t you know that even reading them without a proper spell is a sin? How can you do this to me?” The lady shouted, and the king chuckled before he held her hand and pulled her in for a hug, making her immediately stop.

”How can I let my wife die, sunshine?” He said, and the lady whimpered in his arms, probably crying in his chest.

”Did you even once think about what will happen after you are gone? How will I live? Do you have any idea how hard it would be for me?” The lady asked, and the king wiped her cheeks with his thumb before kissing her forehead.

”You will survive just fine, my sunshine. I am sorry, dear. I know I am being selfish once again and giving you this responsibility when you are not obliged to, but you are the only one I can trust,” the king said before he turned around.

”The process is simple and yet complicated. Hear me out very clearly,” the king said.

Arizona clicked her fingers again, and Nathaniel looked at her.

Does that mean King Eros didn’t die of sickness but actually sacrificed himself for his wife and baby?

The scene changed again.

This time, the lady was lying on the bed, going into labor pain.

”Aaaaaa!” The lady screamed in pain as she delivered the baby, and the nanny pulled out the baby from under the blanket with a concerned face. She wiped the baby before looking at the queen.

”I am sorry, queen. She... she is not alive” the nanny said, and the lady shook her head.

”No. This can’t be. How can the baby die? My husband died because of this kid. How can she be born dead? Eros! You left me for our kid, but she left me too! What am I supposed to do now? I lost everything!” The lady screamed in pain and agony, and Nathaniel’s eyes brimmed with tears as he looked at the dead baby, the baby who was no one other than Elliana.

”Aaaaaahhh! Get this thing out of my face! I don’t want any aftercare. My baby is dead. There is no use of living anymore,” The lady screamed in agony, her powers reacting so loudly that everyone was thrown out of the windows, and the palace crumbled.

However, just before the nanny and the baby could hit the ground, a lady appeared out of nowhere and held them in her arms.

She grabbed the baby and nodded at the nanny, who nodded back at her.

”Please fulfill our king’s wish. Make her live and take care of her,” The nanny handed the dead baby to the lady, and though the face of that lady wasn’t visible, it didn’t take Nathaniel long to know that the lady who took the baby away was Arizona.

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Arizona clicked her fingers, and the sheet disappeared.

”So, I hope whatever I tell you now, you should know that I will be speaking the truth,” Arizona said before looking at the photo she always keeps on her table upside down.

The photo of her kissing Eros’s cheeks. The man she loved and will always love till her last breath.

There were so many things unheard and unanswered, and Nathaniel was ready to hear them all now.

He thought finding the truth would make it easier for him to understand what was happening to Elliana, and he would help her meet her real mom, but seeing the clips, it looks like Arizona was trying to protect Elliana from her real mom. She devoted herself to this cause all her life, even going to the lengths of hurting herself time after time.