Chapter 66: Ring a Bell
The road leading the Eastern Kingdom could make any knee buckle with dread. Elys peered over to the side as they carefully passed a narrow and steep road.
"God be with us," she whispered in disbelief, "I can’t even see the bottom of this cliff."
"This is a ridiculous place to live in," Aleksander commented. "The Western Kingdom is much safer compared to this."
"Geographically speaking that is," Elys reminded him, "much is yet to be decided whether the Eastern Kingdom is worse than the vampire infested West who enslaves innocent people."
Aleksander leaned backwards as he considered Elys’ comment. A scoff escaped his lips, and he cocked his head to the side, a smug look overcoming his handsomely dangerous face.
"What is with that face?" Elys asked.
"Nothing," he responded.
"There is absolutely not a single thing that can’t have a meaning when it comes to you, your highness," Elys replied sourly. "Now spit it out, what are you thinking to give me that sardonic face?"
Aleksander laughed and crossed his legs as he said, "You will never come to give us vampires a second to rest without barraging at our way of living."
Elys raised an incredulous brow.
"That’s something you shouldn’t even question, husband," Elys said, "I came to your kingdom as a slave. I think it is quite hypocritical for me to even glorify your ways – even as I have married into royalty."