My Vampire Husband Wants to Bite Me Every Night novel · Chapter 14 of 24

Chapter 14: What She Saw

The cart lamp dwindled down the glen road until the dark swallowed it.

Niall had not moved from the end of the graves.

"I let them take her," he said.

"You let them take her with a gun at her ear."

"I could have reached the cart."

"You could not have reached the gun."

"I have stood in that road for a hundred years for no reason," he said.

"I cannot even stand in it for Morag."

I crossed the grass and took his face in both hands.

It was colder than the night.

"Listen to me," I said.

"The road was not for nothing."

"I put my hand on that iron ring tonight, and I saw her."

"Who?"

"The old seer."

"She never prophesied your death."

His eyes searched mine.

"Hamish's grandfather held her head under the burn until she said it," I said.

Nothing moved in his face.

I thought for a moment that he had not understood.

Then his knees went.

He did not fall.

He sank down onto the wet grass slowly.

He sat among the graves with his hands open on his thighs.

"A hundred years," he said.

"I starved for a lie."

"Three women buried, and I would not drink from any of them."

"I stood in the road to keep you off."

He laughed once, and it broke in the middle.

I went down on my knees in front of him and he caught me around the waist and put his face against my coat.

He shook.

I held his head and said nothing at all.

I had said enough.

I do not know how long we stayed like that.

The stag lay forgotten in the grass beside us.

At last he lifted his head, and his eyes were black and wet and terrible.

"Take me inside," he said.

"Take me upstairs, Ailsa."

"Do not let me think."

We went up the tower stair without a lantern.

He did not need one, and I had counted the steps.

In the round room the fire had burned down to red.

He stood in the middle of the floor with his arms hanging.

I put my hands on his coat and pushed it off his shoulders.

I opened his shirt and drew it down his arms.

He let me.

He was shaking like the night he had drunk from my wrist, and he let me do all of it.

"Look at me," I said.

He looked.

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