The Princess's Dangerous Vampire Mate-Chapter 339: A new - - III

"What?" I blinked. "What do you mean by that?"

"You’re very well aware of what I mean by that." Merelyn answered, giving me a knowing look. "you feel something for him, and now that you have stopped feeling fear in his presence, you feel those feelings more than before."

She continued, "It is overwhelming to you and a little bit scary which is why you have come to meet me. An old friend you trust."

The last bit was true. She was an old friend that I trusted. Maybe some of what she had said above as well. But I would never agree to it.

"I don’t know where you are getting your information from, but none of that is true." I refused tenaciously. "I fear him and I had feelings for him."

"Hmm," Merelyn nodded, "then why is it that you blush every time he comes close to you? Or when his name is mentioned?"

My cheeks grew hot, and I knew that I was blushing again. "It is because of the tea. The tea is hot and it is burning my mouth." I pointed at the offending cup of tea in front of me that I have not even touched until now.

"Yes, it is quite a hot cup of tea. Not to mention, you must always be drinking tea while you’re in front of him." Merelyn nodded with the conclusion like it made perfect sense.

"Yes," I nodded. "That."

I did feel something for him yet. I did nothing but deny it time and again to different people including him. It was not her to admit to my feelings, but I have not revealed them to anyone. Not even Merelyn in the way I wanted to if I were ever given the chance

Maybe, I did feel something for him at the moment and that was anything for fear, but what would happen if I admit them?

Would justify me going against God and following for something that was not his creation? I had been a follower of him for a very long time and choose to leave the God that I had bread and tried to please until now would be hard for me.

"Merelyn," I took a long set of the tea that she had added ginger to before continuing, "how did you feel when Alan first told you about the vampires? How did you feel after he turned you? Did you renounce the God that we have bread and sworn to serve?"

She had known about this longer than I had, and she was a vampire. I did not know where her loyalties were, but I knew she was my friend, and I would be able to tell if she was lying to me.

She smiled slightly. "I was scared out of my mind. But I also loved him so I could not tell you because I knew you would take me to the nearest church and get my soul cleansed by holy water."

I chuckled.

"I did ask him a lot of questions about it. I felt scared but my love made me trust him more. Then came the time when I was turned without my knowledge because he wanted me to live. I did not renounce God, in no way, I could have ever done that. So I still pray to him, ask him to forgive me for leaving him, but love me equally, as he has loved all his children."

"You do?" She still prayed to the same god? "but I was once told by Tristan, that they had a God of their own."

"They do, yes. But it is not expected for us to follow the same God. Allen told me that we can follow whoever we want, and if we choose to follow no one, then that is our own right."

Merelyn then whispered, "unlike what happened in our country, and in human society, no one is shunned because they choose not to follow God."

Oh.

That was unexpected. Because, if anyone ever chose not to follow God, they were treated as the devil worshipers instantly. They had no other excuse for anyone to not follow God otherwise. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

To learn one thing, more that Tristan was doing better than the rest of us made me feel better—

What was I even thinking about?

"What is it?"

"Nothing," I answered, shaking my head. "I just can’t stop wondering that he went so far to have my letter to a style delivered and he did not question and he did not question how we were exchanging letters."

"Maybe, it was done by him to make you more comfortable. Something, another reason for you to not be scared of him for trust him."

If that was the reason behind him, the winds that it was working. Because Slowly, I was growing more comfortable and his presence and I should be.

"I do not like it one bit, Merelyn. He is someone who turned hundreds of staff members into vampires overnight as punishment. He is forcing me to marry him by the end of the year. How am I supposed to love someone like that?" Because if anything, I should fear and hate him.

But instead of sharing the same feelings as me, Marilyn had a different expression on her face.

"You do love him, and it is only a matter of time when you realize it, rise above the fear you feel, and end up marrying him out of love anyway."

She continued, "As for the people who betrayed him, Tristan has given them a life ahead of them. Any other king or queen wood has been forced to kill all of them or punish them with lifelong imprisonment as betrayal to the crown, but Tristan gave them a lot more than just that."

As vampires, they would end up, leaving for a very long time. They would not require food and a lot of money for survival, so they could send back more money. A lot of things, now that I think about it, could work in their favor in this situation even if they did not want this to happen.

"If you choose to look at the bright side of things, at times, the good overshadows the bad." Merelyn uttered. "and sometimes, you should look at the bright side more. It is better."