Capítulo 18: Within three days!

Hearing this, Cyrus's eyes twisted but he never let it come directly on his facial expressions. "I will be waiting for that day to arrive very soon then."

"You should. Once we sign and settle with the council members, you will be allowed to meet her and spend some time together." King Vilas clarified.

But he knew that this Prince is way more sharper than one can imagine. 'He is like a snake..' and probably, this is the same reason he would like to keep his daughter away from such a cunning man.

Despite the conversation already over between the two, they never tore their eyes from each other. The stare was intense and to tear it off, King Almen coughed to say, "The council head would be here anytime soon. But before that, I have a small request to make to my future aly." King Almen opened his mouth to ask which depicted confidence in his voice.

In return, King Vilas nodded his head in agreement to hear this. "You have all my ears, King Almen."

"Well.." looking at his son, and then back at King, he continued, "Once this is finalized, I would like the things to be short and simple. The engagement can be done tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, the wedding. I want this to end soon, two consecutive days."

Although this surprised King Vilas, it surely did to Shane who stood behind the King. Staring at the King with his moist eyes, he waited for the human lord to answer back.

However, all he did was stare at both of them with some unspeakable expressions. "Are you both not kidding with me? Two consecutive days? I understand that things should be short and simple but.. it is too short a period."

"I agree with what you say but we have a time barrier as well. Staying away from our kingdom is hard. Also, the ladies of the house must be waiting for their new daughter-in-law as well."

At this point, although King Vilas had nothing to say, since it wasn't impossible, yet things can't be summed up in the two days. For him, or for anyone else, this will be out of their league to do any preparation, it might come as a shock to Flora as well.

With such deep consideration of the situation, he looked at the Vampires with much deeper meaning, "Two days isn't possible but I can try things in three days. There will be one day gap in between the wedding and the ring ceremony if that suits you."

King Vilas finally poured his demand with a high hint. Despite knowing that things might become a mess afterward, he was bent on not letting it turn into a total disaster with rushing things like this.

As expected, regarding the situation, both king Almen, as well as Prince Cyrus, felt slightly uncomfortable. One extra day? Can they afford it? They weren't sure either.

Giving each other a look, Cyrus gave his father a giant mist-eyed look, of which King Almen had nothing else to decide.

Without any further due, King Almen shifted his gaze back to King Vilas and finally had said. "Alright. As per you say. But we would like to depart on the fourth day morning."

"Perfect."

When the discussion ended, King Vilas took his leave to move forward, towards Alice's Chamber. The most important thing he has to make sure of is her condition and health.

Shane quietly followed him behind without muting a single word. When they arrived at the entrance of her chamber, the sweet and gentle voice entered his ears.

Stepping inside, the sight that came in his view was her sitting on her bed when the maids were standing on either side.

A wide smile had plastered on her lips as if she was talking something funny with Mary and the two other maids but then her eyes caught the news of her father.

"You are here.. Good morning.." Alice wanted to get up but King Vilas immediately signaled her not to. "Do not leave the bed. Take some rest, the physician advised us the same." he was worried and that was shown in his actions as well.

Alice didn't revoke as well and smiled. "I'm sorry to give you unnecessary trouble. Mary told me that your meeting halted in between because of me.." she heard it all that because of what happened and took place.

Unfortunately, if only she hadn't gone into the basement at night, this disaster would have stopped much earlier.

"You don't have to feel sorry for this, Alice. I'm grateful that you are fine and no one has harmed you.." The statement brought half-smile to her lips as she recalled the monster whom she had seen.

Or to be more specific, a man with a nonbeating heart and... a burnt face.

Walking close to her bed, he sat down on one side, "I know you, very well. You won't go down without any reason in your brain. Did someone force you to go down?"

Alice shook her head vigorously in response.

"If no one forced you, then how come you land yourself there? The basement is.. not in use by anyone. No one goes there, how come you went.." King Vilas asked in a soft tone, yet his desperation to learn was way too long.

At the same time, Alice could sense her heart almost in the middle of coming back in her mouth. For some unknown reason, she tried to reminisce about all the events of the night, making her tremble in her own head.

Averting her gaze back at the King, she gulped the saliva present in her mouth to respond, "Father.. you are.. thinking way too much. Nothing serious.."

"Alice…" King Vilas interrupted her in the middle when she found it difficult to tear her eyes off from her father's sweet yet domineering face, "Tell me. What happened to you, how did you fall unconscious?"