Married To The Mad Vampire Lord novel Chapter 405

Chapter 405: Where Astral is hiding_Part 3

Rohan went to check on his son in Evenly’s room, and seeing that the boy was asleep and had eaten, he left the room without staying there a second longer. As much as he was wounded and caught up in so many things, he didn’t want to neglect his son enough to give the demon king an opportunity to creep into his young mind and manipulate him.

Evenly had wanted to ask the duke what was wrong with Belle before he left her chamber but bit it back and instead ended up asking, "Will Gwen be coming back tomorrow from the palace?"

Rohan stopped at the door at the question. "No." He would not welcome someone who had stayed in the palace for more than a month back into his home. When they were traveling, they couldn’t take the maid vampiress with them, and she had gone to work at the palace until their return on the king’s permission. But Rohan wouldn’t risk having her back, for he knew there might be a chance of her loyalty being bought by the king to spy on his family.

He had trusted her to work in his castle before but loyalty and trust could be easily bought with the right amount. Just like in Claire and Isabelle’s friendship. He wouldn’t risk his family’s wellbeing.

"I will assign new workers once I get in the right mind for it. Until then, I hope you can assist Rav in taking care of the castle." Saying that, Rohan left, as he wasn’t in the mood to talk more.

He went around the castle, opening doors one by one, searching for Kuhn, checking all the places he knew the creature liked to be. Rohan finally found him in the dead garden, sitting atop one of the biggest apple trees with the twilight sky as a backdrop, where faint streaks of lightning occasionally flashed. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Noticing Rohan, Kuhn meticulously came down from the tree and began to walk up, closing the distance between them to meet Rohan halfway.

’You back,’ Kuhn remarked as he came to stand in front of Rohan, whose face was as hard as steel as he glared at him.

"Yes," Rohan replied curtly before going straight to the point of why he had come to look for the creature. "I will not beat around the bush with you, Kuhn. I want you to tell me, was Astral responsible for taking the soul of a girl named Isabelle many years ago?" he demanded, looking into the creature’s glowing eyes beneath its hood.

Lightning struck again in the sky, followed by a distant rumble of thunder.

Kuhn didn’t speak and instead stared at Rohan for a long minute, as though he was deep in thought, before saying, ’No. Astral never take soul of any one Isabelle. I follow Astral to take soul to feed. Astral not take any Isabelle.’

"Then tell me, do you know any reaper other than Astral who has messed with the rules of the dead, who gave a dead person the power to separate their soul into individual spirits and let them roam the land of the living?"

Rohan had thought it might be Astral because of the way Belle could see Kuhn. Only a person who had been given the ability by a reaper could see their pet. If Isabelle’s sprite was inside his wife and was the reason she could see Kuhn and other things of the dead, then he had believed Astral was behind it.

But now that Kuhn, who followed his master everywhere, didn’t recall any past Isabelle, Rohan’s theory took another turn.

’Don’t know about other reapers. I only know my master.’

Rohan dragged his fingers through his hair in frustration, pacing before turning back to Kuhn, the black in his eyes consuming the white. His voice laced with contained fury as he spoke, "Then will you fucking tell me where Astral is hiding? If he didn’t take Isabelle, he should at least know who did!" Rohan’s voice glowed with irritation.

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