Chapter 190
Sabrina’s POV:
The rest of the dinner went by without much hitches. After dinner, the king and I took a walk through the grounds,
The moon, a lovely sickle in the night sky gave its pale light. the cool evening breeze carried with it the scent of flowers. We walked side by side, a peaceful air between us.
But there was a question nagging my mind.
I turned to the king. He has his gaze focused far ahead, his head held high and proud. For a moment I admired the angles of his face then he noticed me staring and looked at me.
“Is there something on my face?” He asked and touched his face.
“No, your face is perfect.”
“You think I’m perfect?” He asked with a teasing smirk.
“I said your face is perfect, not you. Hold on…that doesn’t…”
“It’s alright,” He purred. “You have to admit it.”
I sighed heavily. “I have a question for you,” I said and quickly changed the topic.
“What is your question?”
“Tell me about your childhood. Were you always this tall, intimidating king?”
“Yes. I spawned out of nothing, and I never had to go through childhood.”
I paused in my tracks and turned to face him. He stopped a few paces ahead and looked at me. “You’re being serious?”
To be honest, it’s highly likely that he just spawned out of nothing. I stated at him, and I couldn’t imagine him as a child. Or a baby, even. Did he have parents? Siblings? Did he cry as a child when he scraped his knee?
I can’t come up with any images of that.
“It’s actually very possible.” I said, tapping my chin.
“Of course not.” He said. “I was once a child. Like
any
other person.”
“Somehow I find it hard to believe that.”
He sighed and shook his head. Then he continued walking and I followed him. “I had parents too. And I was once a boy. I had a pretty normal childhood. I was born and raised as a prince, the next in line for the throne.”
Oh.
I see we had completely different childhoods.
“Then what happened? The curse?”
“Yes.”
“How did that happen? Were you born with it?” I asked. I couldn’t imagine a life where he couldn’t see the sun, even as a kid.
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“I wasn’t born cursed.” He said. “I once felt the sun. I once didn’t have poison in my bite!
“Do you want to tell me what happened?”
“Of course. It happened when I was a young man, a few months after my coming of age ceremony. Acheron and 1, troublemakers we were at the time, we left off to explore a temple. It wasn’t supposed to exist, and we thought it was a
rumor,”
I could imagine him as a twenty something year old version of himself. With youthful eyes and a charming smile.
I listened with rapt attention as he went on.
“I broke a sacred item. It was a vase. Something dark came out of it and passed through me. At first I thought it was nothing, till I tried to step out on the sun and it burned. After much consultation with mages, we discovered that the temple belonged to an ancient vampire deity. And I had disturbed it’s eternal sleep. In anger, it cursed me to be…this creature. The curse blended with my wolf nature and created an anomaly”
My heart ached. I could imagine how it must have felt, knowing that he would never step in the sun again.
“I’m so sorry, your majesty.”
“Ah don’t be. It’s been so long I barely think about it anymore.”
I quickly thought of something to change the atmosphere.
“What about your parents? Did you have a good collection of memories with them?”
He smiled fondly. “Yes. My mother was a beautiful soul. She was kind, and she was loved by all. She met her untimely death at my father’s hands.”
The smile that had started to form on my face died as I heard those words.
“I tried to kill my father, but he managed to escape. Lucky him. Since then, I have barely seen him.”
I gasped in shock. “I’m sorry about your mother.”
We walked up to a tree that had a bench under it and sat.
“She’s in a better place. Or at least I hope so.” He said.
He took my hand and pulled me closer. His eyes held my gaze, deep and intense.
“Sabrina, I want you to answer this question truthfully.”
I nodded.
“Do you want to stay here with me, or do you want to leave?”
I blinked twice. That wasn’t the question j was expecting at all.
“Will you let me leave if I want to?” I asked softly.
A few seconds of tense silence stretched between us. His grip on my hand tightened, and he rubbed smooth circles into the back of my hand.
“I won’t lie, if you leave, it will hurt. But yes, I will let you go. If you say the word right now, I will instruct the servants to pack everything you’ll need. And I’ll give you the best carriage. Yes, I would
Those words struck a deep cord in my heart. I can tell how painful it is for him to say it.
You have him wrapped around your finger, Lady Nifra had said.
I didn’t think it’d be like this.
“Why would you do that?”
“Because I don’t want you to ever feel forced to do anything ever again. If you do not wish it, it will not happen.”
“Your majesty….you’re so full of surprises. I…I never imagined you’d be this emotional. This kind to me.”
He cleared his throat and avoided my eyes. “Best to keep this between us.”
I laughed softly. “Are you shy, your majesty?”
“Shy?” He turned to me. He pulled me into his lap and held me steadily. “Who said I’m shy?”
I grabbed onto his bicep to steady myself. “You are?”
“Maybe.” He said. “But one thing is for sure. My world has been plunged into darkness for many long years before I met you. You brought back my light. You are the sun of my life. And your warmth is all consuming, Sabrina.”
My cheeks turned red. “You’re joking. You had Blair the entire time.”
“Blair? She can’t be compared to you. Most times, I don’t even remember her name. Aside the duties she provided me at the time, I never had conversations with her.”
“Duties.”
“It was stress relief, and nothing more. I’m not the kind of man to sleep around and have multiple partners.”
I raised a brow. “That’s new. And it’s not something you hear most men say.”
“I’m not most men.”
“You aren’t. And that’s really hot.”
“You think I’m hot?” He asked and smirked.
I rolled my eyes. “Of course you are.”
His hands ran down the sides of my thighs and slowly back up. “I know you’re curious about my past mate.”
I nodded.
“I will tell you everything about her. But not today.”
“When will it be?”
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