24 Will She Turn?


    The servants’ quarter had two separate buildings for men and women. Both the buildings were two-storied. And Ti’s room was on the ground floor, at the very end of the corridor.


    Caspian and Anastasia were led by a maid to Ti’s room. She knocked and opened the door for the King and Queen to enter.


    Anastasia slowly peeked inside the room from the door, fearing that she would see Ti in a very pitiful state. And the moment she saw that Ti was sleeping peacefully, she pulled her hand from Caspian’s hold and then rushed inside.


    Caspian also followed behind her.


    Anastasia sat on Ti’s bed as softly as she could but Ti felt the mattress sink in a bit and was instantly awoken.


    “Princess... are you okay?” that was the first thing Ti asked the moment her gaze fell on Anastasia’s tear-filled eyes.


    Anastasia gently took Ti’s palm in her hand and then nodded her head. “I’m okay. I’m okay... What about you?” She nced at Ti’s neck and found two puncture wounds that had been stitched up. And she asked, “Does it hurt?”


    Ti wrinkled her nose and pinched her fingers to gesture, “Just a little.” She gave a reassuring smile to Anastasia and said, “Other than that I am fine.”


    Caspian went and stood by Anastasia’s side to inspect Ti. And Ti abruptly prepared to get up to greet the King.


    .....


    Caspian waved off his hand and ordered, “No, it’s fine. You don’t have to. I just wanted to see what my wife’s best friend looked like. I wanted to remember your face.”


    Ti didn’t know how to respond to that so she gave an awkward smile to the King and averted her gaze to look at Anastasia. And Anastasia awkwardly pointed her brows at Caspian, then wrinkled her nose and gently shook her head as if to say, ‘Don’t mind him.’


    Ti smiled and nodded because she understood even when no words were spoken.


    Caspian furrowed his brows and pouted because he felt as though he was being excluded from the conversation. And heined like a baby, “Do the two of you have some kind of signnguage or something? Wife, why are you having a secret conversation right in front of me? Are you back... front-biting about me?”


    Anastasia lightly face-palmed herself and chuckled. She turned to look at Caspian and teasingly replied, “Husband! I am not ‘back-front-biting’ about you.” She then gently pushed him aside and asked, “Will you let me have a private talk with her, please?”


    Caspian rolled his eyes and turned to face away from them. But didn’t move an inch further away from where he was standing before. And he smiled to himself because Anastasia had referred to him as ‘husband’ for the very first time.


    Ti was raising her brows and was watching the two of them bantering like new lovers. And she wondered what happened between them overnight.


    Ti then looked at Anastasia and silently moved her lips to ask, “What happened between you two?”


    And Anastasia replied in a simr fashion, “Nothing! I’m just being nice to him.”


    Caspian was focusing his ears very hard but he could not even hear a little breath. ‘They sure know how to talk stealthily. I’m damn sure that they are talking about me.’ He was itching toin again but he bit his lower lip and kept quiet.


    “So, who is looking after you?” Anastasia wanted to know if someone reliable was there to take care of Ti’s needs or not.


    “The maid who opened the door earlier is taking care of me. She is really nice to me so you don’t have to worry.” Ti nced at Caspian and back at Anastasia, and silently said, “She is a human.”


    Anastasia smiled and nodded, “I know. And what about the food?”


    Ti tightened her grip on Anastasia’s palm and reassured her, “They are feeding me healthy foods. I will recover in no time. Don’t worry so much.”


    Anastasia smiled and gently caressed Ti’s dark hair. “Is there anything that you need? Or anything that I can help you with? If there is then feel free to tell me.”


    “No, there isn’t.” But a frown line appeared on Ti’s forehead and she asked, “Although there was something that I wanted to ask. That vampire didn’t hurt you after I fainted, did he?”


    Anastasia patted Ti’s palm and replied, “No.” She stole a nce of Caspian and said, “His Majesty came to the rescue just in time. And he has already punished the criminal. You don’t have to fear that vampire anymore.”


    Ti let out a great sigh of relief. She was more than happy to know that she had managed to buy just enough time for Anastasia to escape from that vampire unscathed.


    Ti then opened her mouth to ask something but she decided against it and pressed her lips back together.


    However, she asked it anyway after Anastasia pressured her to ask what was in her mind. “Umm...” she toned down her voice a bit and asked, “Will you ask His Majesty if I will turn into a vampire or not? Isn’t the vampire bite supposed to turn humans into vampires?”


    Ti had been consumed by this thought ever since she regained her consciousness. She feared that she was also going to turn into one of the same monsters that terrorized her and Anastasia. And she feared that she would try to harm Anastasia just like that vampire tried to harm them.


    But Ti didn’t have the courage to ask if she would turn into a vampire to anyone else.


    Anastasia nced at Caspian, who was still turning away, expecting him to give an answer to Ti’s question. She knew that he was hearing the question perfectly well.


    But Caspian pretended not to have heard it and kept on ncing out of the window.


    So Anastasia finally asked him, “Caspian, is Ti going to turn into a vampire?”


    Caspian smirked because he was now needed by his wife. He turned around to face her and asked as if he didn’t know why they were having that thought, “Why would she turn into a vampire?”


    “Sh-She was bitten by one so... Isn’t that how one turns into a vampire?” Anastasia creased her brows seeing the nk look on Caspian’s face.


    Caspian gave a light chuckle and gave her a piece of advice, “Anastasia, you shouldn’t believe everything that you hear from rumors. Rumors reach your ears after being modified countless times. So there will be a vast difference between rumors and reality.”


    “So, she won’t turn into a vampire?” Anastasia asked again just to reconfirm.


    Caspian nodded and further rified, “Yes, she will not turn. Vampires aren’t turned, they are born just like humans. But the birth rate is very low aspared to the humans.”


    “Oh! I didn’t know that. Thank you!” Anastasia gave a smile to Caspian and turned to give one to Ti as well. And she happily said to her handmaid, “You heard him. You don’t have to fret over it anymore.”


    Ti let out a huge sigh of relief. She had already nned to take her own life than turn into a monster that could potentially kill her best friend.