8 The proposal- Part 2 (2/2)

”But the Lord himself sent a proposal to our door after hearing such good things about Curtis's daughter,” her sister who was looking dejected a while ago was now looking keenly at her uncle, her blue eyes bright in a slight hint of excitement.

”I'm glad to hear that,” her brother Daniel began but her uncle huffed.

”It isn't. The council of the Empire has been keeping a note about the rifts between all the empire, modulating the people as well as the respective Lord's. The council is hell-bent on keeping a balanced decorum between the humans and the nightly creatures. We all know that Woville and Bonelake haven't been cooperative, and the head council passed few orders to both the Lords. Both the Lord's of Woville and Bonelake decided to keep a truce with an alliance.”

”What are you getting at Raymond?” her father asked, seemingly to understand where this was going.

”The Lord's along with the Council decided it would be for the best to have a defined relation with each other to show mutual trust. Our Lord has promised a Curtis woman from our family in hand of marriage to a close relative of the Lord of Bonelake,” Raymond answered with a bitter taste in his mouth. The ones who weren't aware of it looked taken aback at the news.

”What was the Lord thinking,” Daniel muttered.

”That's impossible!” her father slammed the table in front of him, ”I am not getting Nora married into a bloodsucking family. Never!”

”She is my daughter and I will decide where to get her married,” their father spoke angrily. Even though no one was happy about it, Nora had no qualms on it as she dreamt of living in a huge mansion like a queen but unfortunately her father was dead against the idea of sending her to a vampire household, ”I will not send her there-”

”Simeon, trust me I am not happy about it either but refusing the Lord wouldn't be right. It would do nothing but damage, especially after the Lord has given his word. If we refuse now, it is not the Woville Lord we will have to worry about, the council will be involved too.”

”But we can't...”

Heidi could see the conflict in her father's eyes as he battled with the thought of Nora marrying a vampire. Both the Curtis brother's weren't fond of vampires, and the Lord of North deciding Nora to be the bride of a vampire was something all of them were digesting.

”But I have a proposal,” Raymond spoke to his brother. Another one? thought Nora in surprise, she must be more beautiful than she knew to get so many proposals,

”In the letter that was sent, it had clearly mentioned that our Lord promised a Curtis woman from the family. If you don't want to send Nora why not send someone else in her place?” her uncle then turned to look at her making her heart drop instantly.

”Heidi?” aunt Aurelia asked with a surprised look.

”Heidi is a Curtis and she is as old as Nora. I don't think a little change would cause any trouble,” said Raymond as dread began to fill Heidi's heart. She could hear her heartbeat in her ears loudly, the blood rushing up in her body.

”But uncle Raymond-” Nora began not liking the idea that Heidi was going to experience the luxury which was supposed to be hers.

”You won't be marrying into a vampire family, Nora,” her uncle cut her, giving her a sharp look meaning her words weren't up for discussion. After a few seconds, he then turned back to her father, ”So what do you say?”

Heidi went as pale as a ghost when she saw her father nod reluctantly.