บท 4: Chapter-4 The wedding

"Sir, this -" Lucas started, but Sebastian raised his finger to stop Lucas from speaking anything else.

Sebastian knew what his beta was concerned about. His cold eyes swept over the beautiful and innocent-looking girl, whose head was bowed in what looked like nervousness and shyness.

She wasn't scared of him. It was as if she was accepting some kind of fate. And it irked him a little. Was she forced into this?

Even when Sebastian hadn't met the daughter of the hunter bloodline, he immediately knew this girl wasn't the one mentioned by the elders.

From what Lucas had found out, the daughter of James Heart, the hunter bloodline holder, was wise and cunning, and this girl in front of him looked nothing like that.

A vampire's senses are one of the highest and sharpest in the world among all species, and Sebastian could feel James' uneasiness when he handed this girl's hand to him.

It was obvious this girl was important and he was scared for her. Maybe she was the illegitimate daughter of James, not mentioned in the family history?

It was funny of them to think that just because the royal family didn't like the youngest prince and was wary of him all the time, they wouldn't check the background of the girl.

The girl he had heard about definitely didn't look like this.

They were really testing their luck, weren't they? They know that he hates their entire bloodline, and even after that, they dare to play such an underhanded trick. Should he just snap her neck since they were thinking of fooling him? Sebastian glances at James briefly before looking at the innocent girl in front of him.

It doesn't matter to him. It wasn't like he was marrying to fall in love with this or any human. This was a formality that he was doing under his grandfather's force, all because he wanted that throne.

It doesn't matter if the girl was legit or illegitimate. As long as she wasn't a pain in his ass, he was ready to overlook her. Besides, this girl was really a sight, and for once, his dead heart actually felt alive when she placed her hand on his.

Maybe it was her innocence or her dress. Whatever it was, he wanted to test it out. After all, disposing of a human if she doesn't suit his taste wasn't a hard deal for him.

"Let's start the ceremony," Lucas announced from the prince's side when Sebastian nodded at him, and Marla sighed a breath of relief.

Along with Elliana, even she was shocked to see so many handsome men from the vampire's side, but maybe the blood they used kept them alive and fresh. Or why would a few centuries-old men look so good?

"Do you take Miss Elliana Heart as your bride?" The priest asked, and the vampire prince nodded, not speaking anything.

Elliana's fists clenched beside her, her nervousness at its peak since she had no idea what she was getting herself into. Everything she thought about them was proven wrong.

"Do you take the vampire prince as your rightful husband?" The priest asked, and Sebastian's ears perked.

He wanted to hear what kind of voice this bewitching human held.

If he didn't like her voice, her tongue would be the first thing coming off her body. Sebastian's eyes darkened at his intrusive thoughts, and he clenched his fists to control them, the urge to smell and see some humans bleed slightly taking over.

"I do," Elliana's soft voice calmed the storm brewing in Sebastian's heart.

He looked at the girl and gave her a once over once again.

'Quite Interesting,' he thought.

Elliana and Sebastian immediately left for the vampire kingdom after the wedding ceremony.

Seeing that she was finally alone with the man who would decide her future, Elliana couldn't help herself as she sat quietly like a scared mouse in front of Sebastian, who was watching her every move from the corner of his eyes.

Since they were sitting in a Limo, she was sitting in front of him. Though her aura and body posture screamed confidence, her eyes gave her away, and Sebastian supported his face on his palm as he observed her directly and shamelessly.

She was quite skinny, like unpleasant skinny. This has to be the first thing he will deal with.

He noticed she started to shiver as soon as they started nearing the kingdom, and he huffed loudly, making her jerk a little in surprise.

"Ambrose, Mrs. Elliana isn't used to the cold climate. She has lived in another climate all her life. Turn on the heater," She heard Sebastain's voice for the first time and couldn't help but bite her lips.

Turning her head to look out of the window, she looked at the people, visibly amazed as she saw them in the cars and expensive ones.

All her life, she had believed that the vampires move and travel by walking and running since they are gifted with the power of speed.

"It's amazing," She said, thinking how her entire life was a big fat lie, not knowing she said it aloud.

Sebastian, who was busy on his phone, now turned to look at the girl, who was looking out of the window with an unadulterated expression and couldn't help but wonder if what he saw was true or just a facade she had.

Feeling Sebastain's gaze on herself, she sat more elegantly, her hands stiffening as she felt like a deer under his penetrating gaze.

'What is he thinking? Why is he staring at me like that? Did I make him angry? Now that we are in his area, does he think I am not worthy to live? Does he think he can kill me and decompose me here somewhere? Is it the way I am sitting that is annoying him? Will he bite my neck and snap it into two because he is angered?'

Elliana gulped at her trail of thoughts, her hands trembling a bit, and she couldn't help but look out again to conceal her emotions.

Gulping again, she bit her lips, closing her eyes as she tried to calm down her raging heart.

Don't vampires also have supernatural hearing, letting them hear even the faintest noises? What if my fast-beating heart is annoying him? She thought again, her heart beating even faster than before, and she couldn't help but gulp at the thought loudly, not knowing what to do anymore.

"Ambrose, turn down the heater. Mrs. Elliana is getting uncomfortable now," Sebastian said, without even looking at her as he was busy with his work and could only feel her discomfort. But Elliana, who was already paranoid and heard his words, could only become remorseful.

It looked like her presence was indeed annoying him, and he was hiding it in the name of her being uncomfortable.

Maybe he was indirectly trying to tell her she was a nuisance and an eyesore. She thought before biting her lips as she closed her eyes to return to her neutral form, the one she had started to practice when she was seven years old, the one she used to hide her emotions, and her chakra powers too.

Although she was calm on the outer surface, on the inner side, she was as amazed as a person who had been brought into a new world.

The scene in front of her was nothing like she had expected. People travelled in expensive cars rather than by foot, there were shops and civilizations like those of humans, and it wasn't a jungle as she had thought. In fact, their way of living looked more composed and organized than humans.

Has she been duped all her life? It was okay that she had a misconception about them, but such a drastic one? She stole a look at the man sitting beside her.

How can someone be this handsome? As if his almost white skin with styled hair as his eyes focused on his phone while he scrolled down the news, looking so serious, wasn't enough, he had to support his head like that, showcasing his chiselled jaws even more.

She learned that her vampire prince wears multiple masks for different purposes. Like right now, he was wearing a mask that was almost attached to his face since he didn't need to eat or drink water. When he eats, as he did after the wedding, he wears another mask that provides enough space for the food to go inside his mouth from below it. It looks more like a devil's mask. He also wears a half-face metal mask with a cotton mouth mask that covers his face entirely but gives him enough freedom to speak properly.

Life must be really hard for him to commute between the masks like this, no? Elliana sighed.

Looking at his every move, her eyes shifting to his slender fingers, she was about to look up when suddenly she felt the car jerk with a heavy force, and Elliana, who was looking at Sebastian and was unprepared for the sudden jerk, fell in front of her.

Expecting pain, she was surprised when she only felt a slight prickling on her nose.

Squinting her nose, she opened her eyes, knitting her brows further when she met nothing but darkness.

Wait? Is she unconscious, and this is her mind space? She thought before moving her hand, sighing when she could feel her limbs.

Moving her palm to the place in front of her, she unknowingly rubbed the area before sighing again.

After being unsure for a few seconds since she didn't want to provoke the devil sitting beside her, Elliana narrowed her eyes when she started to feel a little cold as if she would freeze to death.

Feeling a slight rustling of coldness from above her head, she turned her head before looking up, her crystal-clear eyes meeting his dark ones.

Sebastian wasn't prepared for the jerk, but he was quick and placed his hand in front to protect her from bumping her head into the driver's seat. However, what he hadn't expected was for her to not fall on the driver's seat, but on his lap, and his gaze darkened as he looked at the girl in front of him, still finding it hard to figure her out.

And now that she had unknowingly touched the forbidden area, even rubbing on it, he didn't know what to think of her anymore.

Was she doing this on purpose? His jaws ticked, but it soon changed when he looked into her glossy, innocent eyes.

"I...I.." Elliana stuttered in her gentle and alluring voice as she looked up at him, feeling a cold chill run down her spine when Sebastian finally smirked.

"Are you satisfied with its size?" Sebastian asked, making Elliana widen her eyes even further as heat crept up to her cheeks at his insinuation, making her look like a deer caught in headlights.

"I... I... I am so sorry," She finally found her voice, and Sebastian couldn't help but feel his lips twitching under his mask.

"It's okay. It's not like this is someone else's property. For now, at least,"

The more Sebastian spoke to get a reaction out of her, the hotter Elliana felt.

Feeling wronged by his choice of words, she quickly got up, accidentally touching his chest before she sat back and looked out of the window like an angry kitten.