Chapter 32 - Back to our place

My servant washed the tea room floor with the help of another maid. Nobody even questioned what had happened. Lucas returned to his room; he needed a bath and rest. And I went to my room. Would Phillip be in the crypt under the hut? I decided to go out in the middle of the night. No one would notice if I went out and came back before dawn.

Arriving at the cabin, I went down to the crypt, and Phillip was waiting for me. I could see anger in his gaze, but I didn't understand. I ran out of the crypt and the cottage. I returned through the silent forest, but Phillip quickly appeared before me. In fear, I fell on my knees. He lifted me up, took me back to the cabin, and held me by the arms.

- I want to talk to you. Why did you run away?
- Why did you look at me like that? What do you want?
"Today I am the only one who asks!" he spoke with a sharp tone. "Who is the young nobleman you received today in the palace?" Where's the king?
- That is Lucas Jared VI, a friend of my childhood, son of a count, a friend of the King; he came to our wedding, and my father is with his father in the Carpathians.
"Does your Highness know that your friend is a vampire hunter?" he asked in an even sharper tone.
No, I just knew he was hunting Claus.
- What happened? Why are you trembling? - He asked, securing my hands
We killed Claus.
- How? This is not possible! - he spoke to me, letting me go and standing
He came to finish what he had begun in his castle, but Lucas quickly killed him.
- I knew Claus was around, but how did Lucas kill him?
- With a wooden stick in the heart. - I spo, reminded of the scene and the blood.
- Your friend is going to hunt me!
- No, it won't... - I answered by getting up and feeling the pain in my ribs.
- How can you be so sure?
- Because I asked him. He already knows you're a vampire, but he won't hunt you or kill you.
- Why did you run away from me when you saw me in the crypt? And how can you be so sure he won't come to kill me?
- I ran away because you seemed to be mad at me... I was afraid you'd be mad because we killed Claus. And I'm sure because Lucas is like a brother to me, he wouldn't do anything to hurt me.
The prince let me go and turned his back on me. I walked towards the door and left the cabin to return to the castle. I got lost in the woods, but I realized that I had gone all the way back to the castle completely alone. I climbed the stairs with difficulty; my ribs hurt a lot. I went to bed and couldn't sleep.
I went down the stairs to the palace hallway with a candle to light the way. I went to the kitchen, much quieter without the daily movements at that time of the morning. I heard a noise coming from the hallway, I turned through the door and saw a bull. I turned the candle in that direction, and I could see the vampire "son" of Claus that I had met in Paris. The scare made me drop the candle; it went off as soon as it touched the ground. He ran toward me and took my hand:
- Claus came here? He wanted to hurt you.
- What do you want? - I was scared, almost voiceless.
He pulled my hand towards him and tried to bite my arm, where there was a cut from the attack by Claus. I managed to get him away and escape. My arm was bleeding again. I ran up the stairs and climbed as fast as I could. I entered my room and locked the door.