Married To The Mad Vampire Lord-Chapter 170: The past_Part 3

A few hours later, the queen was led into the depth of Grimvale to a witch’s keep nestled inside the woods. Pulling down her hood, she looked at the old house as Kath walked forward and knocked on the door.

The door cracked open by itself, and a pitch-black darkness welcomed them inside the house.

"Are you certain there’s anyone in here?" Galina asked as she walked into the darkness where she could not even see herself. The light that came from the open door did not pass to enter the house, and the door slammed shut before she knew it, plunging them into a deeper darkness.

"The Great Witch! We seek your help!" the lady-in-waiting called out into the darkness, and immediately, the fireplace came on. Logs of wood burned brightly, illuminating the large house, it looked far bigger on the inside, while the outside had appeared so small. The queen looked around in surprise.

Not long after, Galina was introduced to a small, hideous woman with a large mole on her long, prominent nose and a skewed dark eye that stared back at them. Galina’s desperation was so great that it made her too numb to feel unsettled by the sight of the woman before her.

"You are the Great Witch?" Galina questioned.

"And you are the Queen," stated the witch with a crooked smile. "I needn’t ask what brings the Queen to my keep because I know what you seek. But I do not believe you will be up for what you have to do to get it." freewёbnoνel.com

"I will do anything. Anything to give my husband a son. Do not underestimate the words of a woman in desperate need. Since we don’t have to beat around the bush to get to why I am here, then you might as well tell me straight on what I have to do to have a son."

The witch laughed.

"I like women like you, Queen. Many who come to seek my help for a child run the moment I tell them what they have to do to get the child. I will like you more if you stay even after hearing it."

"Try me," Galina said with a challenging look in her eyes as she looked down at the hunchbacked witch before her.

"Are you willing to sleep with the demon of darkness, who, if you must know, has spent most of his life in hell and crawled out of it?" To make his last heir, as he was cursed to damnation. The witch thought the last part to herself, choosing not to scar the vampiress further with such information about the demon.

Galina blanched at those words. She had thought she was willing to do anything, but hearing this, she realized she wasn’t willing to do everything. Without another word, she ran out of the witch’s keep and returned to the castle.

Sleep with a demon? Not just lay down, because the witch had explained she would have to give her body to this demon for a night, and she would be granted a son.

Galina was not willing to cheat on her husband. Not just that, she would not give her body to a faceless demon that crawled out of the pit of hell.

However, months later, when Galina saw her husband getting more desperate to the point he had given his word for the chosen women to be brought to the castle for him in a few days, she realized she couldn’t take it anymore.

He had also betrayed his love for her by giving those words. He was willing to sleep with other women to achieve his goal, what was the difference if she did it? He had called it a small sacrifice when she confronted him.

Galina realized she would also consider her decision as a sacrifice. At least she wouldn’t be losing her position as the queen if she was the one to make the sacrifice in place of him.

When she went back to the witch, she was willing and more determined than ever.

"I knew you would come back," the witch said with a smirk.

"How will I meet this demon?" Galina asked.

"You do not meet him, you feel him. He will be there with you when you call for him and are ready. All you have to do is say out what is written in this parchment paper. Speak the words three times and then lay down. He will be there."

Galina took the parchment paper with shaky hands she couldn’t will to stop trembling. Vampires were strong-willed creatures, but this was terrifying even for her.

"In what way will I repay you if it works?" Galina asked, as she knew witches never do anything for free.

The witch smiled. "You will be repaying me by sleeping with this demon. I am indebted to him. Paying back my debt by giving him a woman for a night is enough for me as a payment."

Galina had taken the parchment and left the witch’s keep.

When she returned to the castle, she lied to her husband about not feeling well and wanting to sleep alone in her chamber tonight, and he shouldn’t come to disturb her.

Knowing that he had upset her by agreeing to bring in the candidates he would choose his wives from, the king had decided to let her be for the night, even though he stood outside the door, touching the surface with his hands and apologizing to her for hurting her this way.

"I love you, Galina. I want you to remember that," he had whispered into the door and then walked away.

Galina, who heard him, clutched the paper to her hand, crying silently.

"I love you, too. That’s why I have to do this..."

She cried and then wiped off the tears as she began to read out the words written on the parchment.

"I offer my body to you for the night and give you what you seek in me. Take me," she repeated the words three times and then laid back on the bed, staring at the ceiling, waiting for something to creep out of the darkened chamber, as it had been instructed that she turn off every light.

For one hour, nothing happened, and Galina was starting to believe the witch had tricked her, and that she knew nothing of what she had told her to do. She wasn’t certain if she should be disappointed or happy that a demon did not creep out to get her pregnant.

She began to drift to sleep when she felt the space beside her on the bed dip, like someone had settled on the other side of the bed.

At first, she thought it to be her husband, as it was late in the night—until she felt the person come closer to her, close enough for her to feel the body temperature that was as hot as a vampire was cold.

She snapped her eyes open, but the darkness did not let her see what or who was beside her. Before she knew it, her lips were crushed by a warmer one, completely different from her husband’s cold lips.

Galina realized just then that her summoning of the demon had worked, but she did not expect him to make love to her in a way that was more delicious than what her husband could ever make her feel.

The worst part was that she enjoyed every moment of it and even allowed him to hold her in his warm embrace afterward, where she drifted off to sleep without even seeing the face of the person who had just touched and kissed her in a way no other man—not even her husband—had.

The next morning, when she woke up, she was alone in bed. Everything that happened the night before seemed like a dream because her nightdress was intact and her body did not feel like she had been loved last night.

Galina decided that whatever had happened was just in her head and that the witch’s words had been a lie. She must have hallucinated it all because she had gone to sleep hoping, somewhere deep in her mind, that it had worked and she would have a son. The witch had obviously tricked her!

She burned the parchment angrily and resigned herself to the fact that her husband was no longer hers alone.