Married To The Mad Vampire Lord novel Chapter 490

Chapter 490: Caught in the war_Part 1

Hours back in the establishment, while the wardens and slaves stood around the yard waiting for the wagons to return, Belle was trying to push the little life out of her womb. She had tried to prolong the labor and to wait for Rohan to come, as Kuhn had returned to tell her he had delivered the message and that her son had been able to see him and tell Rohan the words he said.

Belle had been so glad and knew for certain that Rohan would be here, but then, knowing this was the west border which was far away from their castle, she knew he wouldn’t come on time, wings or no wings. It would take a bit of time for him to reach, and with the contractions being so hard and deep that her body was naturally pushing the baby lower on its own, Belle felt her strength slipping.

The pressure inside her grew heavy and urgent, her body gripping and releasing in waves she could no longer fight. With each tightening she felt the baby being forced downward, and her legs trembled so badly she couldn’t hold herself up any longer. Giving in to her body’s urges, Belle went down to where Andrea had gathered the leaves in the corner of the tree, lowering herself with a shaky breath as another contraction seized her from the inside out.

Andrea gathered up her dress and went on her knees in front of Belle’s parted legs to see the progress of her delivery as Belle pushed with all her might. "I can see the head! You’re almost there," Andrea encouraged as Belle raised her upper body and kept pushing, tears filling her eyes and sweat breaking out on her skin.

She clutched at the tree trunk, giving herself the belief that she was holding her husband’s hand. She even made herself believe that it was he who was encouraging her to push, just like when she was giving birth to Angel.

"Come on, love. You’re almost there. You can do this." She heard Rohan’s voice in her head, and it gave her more strength to push.

It was while the ordeal of childbirth was going on that they heard a loud bang, and with the loud bang came the crushing of the large fence of the establishment as it crumbled down.

In no time, cannons were fired to explode the walls. The smell of smoke rose in the air, and the slaves scattered around, screaming and trying to hide away from the explosion. The vampire who had been dozing off on the bench under the tree rose to his feet, his eyes turning around in panic as explosives were being fired into their establishment by the humans who had finally invaded their land. The war had finally reached the establishment that was closest to the border!

The vampire didn’t even care to look after any slave; he ducked and fled from there, escaping with his vampire speed. He was no soldier and wouldn’t give his life away to fight.

"God in heavens, the war is real," Andrea remarked as she looked toward the falling fences and the screaming slaves running, but some of them couldn’t even run fast enough as the explosives were being fired into the yard and blowing off, bodies scattering into pieces and causing Belle and Andrea, who were under the big tree, to watch in horror.

"I... I thought they are here to save the slaves! They are blowing up the place along with everyone," cried Andrea as she watched smoke rise and bodies scatter from the distance of where she and Belle were to the yards. Since the yard was so big and the tree they were hiding under was far at the back, and the attack had started from the front, the explosives hadn’t reached their side yet. The low-hanging branches of the tree shielded them from most of the toxic smoke, but not enough, because soon the smoke began drifting around them, causing both women to cough.

"We... need to get out of here, Andrea. Let me try to push some more," Belle said with restraint, forcing the words out between breaths, and Andrea nodded. She turned back to Belle despite the fact that her whole body was shaking in terror at the thought of being blown apart by one of the firing cannons.

Belle, who knew she wouldn’t be able to walk or run with a baby on the way out, resumed pushing with all her might. She took a deep breath, then released it through her mouth and pushed with a scream. Just like that, Belle felt the small body slip free from hers.

"It’s out!" exclaimed Andrea amidst the chaos. There was no time for proper procedures; Andrea acted as she had always done for herself when giving birth under the cruel conditions of the establishment. She grabbed a piece of broken pottery from the floor. With trembling hands, she tied a piece of cloth she had torn from Belle’s dress tightly around the cord and used the pottery shard to cut it. A small trickle of blood appeared, but Andrea pressed the cloth firmly against it to stop the bleeding.

The baby cried weakly in her arms when she lifted it up, a tiny sound of life amid the harsh smells of explosives and the dust and screams. With how the gunfire was blowing up and the loud war cries ringing in the air, it didn’t take them long to realize that the vampire armies had also reached the borders and were now fighting.

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