May Death Do Us Part

265 Chapter 265 : Anyone but Elric..

Queen Marceline walked out into the gardens and smiled when she saw her daughter sitting on the bench under the willow tree. She had a hunch she would find Melissa there, there was something she had said during breakfast that had peaked the nosferatu woman’s interest.

“Enjoying the snow?” Marceline asked as she took a seat next to her daughter. “Winter is a nosferatu’s favorite time of year. My skin is usually so flawless in the cold.”

“Mother your skin is always flawless,” Melissa responded with a small smile. “You don’t look a day over thirty and yet you are centuries old.”

The two women chuckled, both leaning back comfortably on the bench and watching the green of the garden slowly getting dusted with white.

“I would have never thought you would be in support of random men pursing your daughter,” Marceline added on, wanting to bring up the topic that had really brought her out here. “It took everyone by surprise when you supported the idea of Eira getting married off.”

Melissa turned slightly away from her mother’s gaze and sighed. “Ivan may be right,” she responded. “If Eira were to find a good, stable and responsible man, maybe she would avoid situations like the one she almost got herself into.”

Marceline studied her daughter before smiling to herself. “You felt it didn’t you?”

Melissa turned to look at her mother, a sad smile was tagging the woman’s lips which made Melissa bite down on hers.

“You felt Eira make a connection with her blood half last night didn’t you?” Marceline repeated herself.

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Melissa bowed her head and cupped her face in her palms. “It can’t be!” She groaned in frustration. “It can’t be him mother, there has to be some sort of mistake! I will not allow it!”

*

The night before, while Melissa was welcoming her guests and offering them seats, she had felt a strange sensation come over her. Her eyes followed the strange drawing feeling until she spotted two people dancing beautifully on the dance floor. The demeanor of the woman was obviously her daughter Eira, she looked so relaxed and comfortable dancing in the arms of the man. The blue eyed queen couldn’t tell who the man was because of his mask, but it made Melissa a little excited.

Had her little princess found someone she liked? Was that the man who Eira had been sneaking off to see? She couldn’t wait to ask her daughter all

anout him.

The rest of the evening, Melissa spent her time watching her daughter dance with her mystery man. But she couldn’t help but feel there was something about the man that was oddly familiar. Had Melissa met this man before? Was he one of Eira’s friends? Or maybe one of the noblemen’s sons?

Melissa watched intently as the two danced until she was distracted by the arrival of her mother Marceline. That was when Melissa stopped paying much attention to her daughter and spent time catching up with her mother.

Before she knew it, her husband and daughter were squabbling over something not too far from the high table.

“Oh gods,” Melissa sighed, “what are those two fighting over this time?” She rose from her seat and gave her mother a smile, “excuse me mother, I need to stop this before they draw any unnecessary attention to themselves.”

Melissa rushed to her husband and pulled on his shoulder, “Gareth!” Melissa growled in a hushed tone. “What in the world is going on here! Are you trying to ruin our daughter’s birthday party?!”

Her husband turned to her before pulling Eira closer. Gareth turned their daughter to face Melissa,

a panicked look on his face. “Ask your daughter what she has been up to? Did you know that she has been deliberately putting her own life in danger?! Secretly meeting up with a man who almost ruined our lives?!”

“Will you stop speaking in riddles!” Melissa spoke sternly to her husband, what man was he talking about? Was it the same man who Eira had been dancing with? “What has she done so wrong this time that’s got you so whirled up in public?!”

“Eira has been secretly meeting up with Elric this entire time!”

The words that came out of her husband’s mouth made Melissa feel like the world around her came to a halt. She looked up at her husband in disbelief, not wanting to believe the words he had just said. “What did you just say?” Melissa asked, hoping that what she had heard the first time was wrong.

“I said our little princess here, has been meeting up with Elric secretly this entire time.” Gareth responded. “And as if things couldn’t get any worse, she was dancing with him right here in our palace, just a few moments ago.”

Melissa’s blue eyes shifted from her husband’s face to her daughter’s. “Eira, this can’t be true can it?” Her heart was pounding wildly in her chest, so that man Eira was dancing so merrily with was Elric?! “How in the world did you even meet him?!”

No that couldn’t be the case, anyone but Elric..

*

“I will not allow my daughter to fall down the same hole that I fell into mother,” Melissa spoke in an icy tone. “I’d be damned if I let anything happen between Elric and her, I will never allow it!”

“So you would rather force another man onto her then?”

“I am not going to force anything,” Melissa responded and stood up. “Eira is my daughter, I know what she does and doesn’t like. I believe I can find a suitoman for her, she won’t even have to think twice about courting him.”

Marceline sighed, she understood the position that her daughter was in, but her of all people should know that once a blood half connection was made, severing it never bore any good fruit.

“Just be careful Melissa, you know how it goes with blood halves and mates.”

“Thank you for the advice mother,” Melissa responded and began walking away, “but I know what I am doing.”

“I’m sure you do,” Marceline muttered as she watched Melissa walk back into the palace. This was going to become very messy, she could feel it.

*

Clovis kissed his sleeping wife before walking out of the guest wing they had been allocated. He walked down the hallway towards his brother Jeffrey who was waiting for him at the far end.

“Any news from the snowlands?”

The Merian king had asked his brother to send word to the alpha of the silver pack in the snowlands, asking him for assistance in looking for their thought to be dead brother Elric. He figured if there was anyone who could look for a lost cub, it would be its own pack.

“I could not get our message through to alpha Edron..”

“What? Why not? Will he not even lend an ear to matters pertaining to his own child?”

Jeffrey shook his head, “I couldn’t get to the alpha because he is already on his way here.”

Clovis knitted his eyebrows, “why is he on his way here?”

“It turns out we are not the only ones who sensed our dear brother’s presence,” Jeffrey explained. “He actually sensed him long before us. Because according to my sources, they may as well be already searching the forest as we speak.”

“Well then, we must join them immediately!” Clovis declared, “it has been so long, we must reunite with our brother, the true king of Meria must return to the throne.” Clovis clutched a pendant that hang on his neck. “It is what father would have wanted.”

“I suppose you are right,” Jeffrey responded. “He has had more than enough time to rest and get his mind straight. That damn Elric, I hope this doesn’t turn out to be another war, we have families and children to worry about now. I don’t know about you, but I am not keen on senseless fighting.”

“There will be no violence involved,” Clovis assured his brother, “as long as the Gavarian king keeps his pretty little bundle of trouble out of the picture.”

*

Eira materialized in front of Elric’s cabin door and drew in deep breath. Elric was right about her, she was very stubborn and persistent, but if she wanted to be queen one day, these were qualities she should posses.

She walked to the door and knocked, “Elric?!” She knocked a second time. “Elric it’s me Eira! I know you probably don’t want to hear from me right now but I really think we should talk!”

The red head put her ear onto the door waiting for an answer but heard nothing. She knocked again, little louder this time. “Elric are you in there?!”

Eira was about to open the door and peak in, but the voices of men interrupted her. It sounded like a group of soldiers were coming her way, but they were none Eira knew. This could mean trouble, she had to hide quick before she was spotted.

“The prince’s scent is strongest right around here,” one of the men spoke, “he shouldn’t be far.”

“Seems your Luna was right after all,” another man’s voice responded. “Elric is alive, my son is out here somewhere, and we are going to find him.”