Call Of The Dark

Maeve shot him a glare. She shouted as loud as she could which still came out as a squeak. "Can't you see how ill I am? The spell that I cast around the palace was not as powerful as it should have been but I was sure that it would hold Emma!" Even she started doubting her own magic. She had never felt so helpless.

​ "Well, I know you are ill, but now what will you do, Maeve?" Lazarus asked as he went to sit at the edge of her bed. Magnus and Yul continued to stand there with the guard in between them.

Half an hour back they had called a few guards and announced to them to go and look for Emma outside the palace. They had convinced their leader to speak the lie in front of Maeve in a way that she believed him. The guard was so scared of the three ferocious vampires that he did what was asked of him. He knew that after this he was on his own even if the truth came out. Obviously, the royals would deny. So he had to be extremely convincing.

"What can I do?" Maeve cried. "I can curse my bad luck."

"M'lady," the guard said softly. "Will it be possible for you to remove the spell? Other soldiers are hesitating in going out of the palace due to this discomfort. If you remove the spell, all of us will be able to go out in large numbers and find Lady Emma."

Maeve looked at the guard with wide eyes as if he had spoken something dreadful. "Are you insane?" she squeaked. "If I remove the spell, my body would deteriorate further!"

Lazarus sighed. "I know that Maeve," he said, keeping his hand on her legs that were covered in a blanket. "But if you want to marry me, what would you do in the current situation? We are running short of time."

Maeve's eyes went to his hand. His touch was warm and caring. And this really convinced her that he wanted to marry her. The main reason why he made her reject Ailill was because he was obsessed about her. Anton was right. Lazarus was too blinded by his vision to rule Wilyra and to make her his queen. Even though she was suffering from depression after rejecting Ailill, this new thought gave her hope. "Do you think you will be able to find her?" she asked the guard.

"Yes m'lady," he said. "But can you please lift your spell? It is already past afternoon and we don't have much time left. The king has asked us to go in large numbers to find Lady Emma."

When Maeve still didn't do anything, Lazarus goaded her. "Ailill healed you a little, didn't he? You are not as weak as you think you are. Be positive Maeve. Think about the outcome of your courage. It's a matter of a few hours."

She closed her eyes. That was true. Ailill did heal her a little. It was the rejection that was weighing down upon her. "Okay..." she said in a low voice. "I will remove the spell, but please get that bitch here! I am going to possess her so fast and cast her soul out at lightning speed that she wouldn't be able to bat an eyelid before this is done!"

Lazarus clenched his jaw. He glared at her with bloodshot eyes. He didn't speak for a long time till his temper came down. After a few moments he said, "I will get her there."

Maeve's lips lifted up. She reached for his hand and squeezed it lightly. "Then I will lift the spell." She lifted her shaky hand and then snapped her fingers. And the moment she did that, her body went into complete shock. She froze, her eyes became blank and she looked like she had lost all her senses. The bedsheet on which she was lying was slowly getting soaked in blood.

"Let's go!" Lazarus said. All of them immediately left her room and rushed out. Together they traced to Yul's house. However when they reached the bedroom, they heard the king's soldiers knocking at the door. The girls were looking panicky.

"Fuck!" Lazarus rasped, gritting his teeth.

"Go inside the bedroom," Yul said to Magnus and Lazarus. "Trace the girls to the nearest place. Let me take care of these soldiers."

As soon as Yul went to the door, he saw his servants lined up over there, all of them watching the soldiers with horror.

"What is going on?" Yul asked the soldiers with a dangerous growl.

One of them who was in the front bowed to him. "My lord, we have come to search your house by king's orders."

"Why?" Yul had a menacing expression on his face as he committed the faces of every soldier to his memory. It was more to scare them off than to stop them from searching his house. He had to give time to Lazarus and Magnus to take the girls out.

The soldier gulped. "The king has asked us to search for Lady Emma and by his orders we will be searching every quarter."

"What makes you think that Lady Emma is here?" he growled.

The soldier started to shiver. "My lord, it is just the king's order that we are complying with. Please allow us to get inside else we will have to force ourselves in."

Yul narrowed his eyes on the soldier and then with one last look at all others, he stepped aside. He asked his servants also to step aside. "You may search, but I will allow only two men to enter."

The soldiers nodded and only two soldiers entered the house. They both started running everywhere. Yul was anxious. When the soldiers reached his bedchamber, he was almost ready to pounce on them and kill them but he stopped himself because the bedroom was empty. Lazarus and Magnus had traced away with their girls. His lips curled up. The soldiers looked at other places and then left satisfied.