10 Bonfire- Part 2 (1/2)
”Yes, that is the plan. If we get the delicate details of things the Duke has requested we can turn tables by having higher authority on their land,” said uncle Raymond.
”The Lord isn't going to find it suspicious?” Her father asked.
”Our Lord? He is a pussy to even raise a revolt against the vampires. After he did get assigned to help of the Valerian Lord. Unlike him, we know how much of a threat vampires are going to be in the next coming years. They will try to take the entire control over the humans. ”
”The vampires haven't done anything to cause an unnecessary revolt against them. It is a wrong misconception,” Heidi stated boldly.
”Heidi!” her father warned from where he sat, ”We didn't raise you to side with them.”
”I don't think you brought this one right, brother. After all I guess it is true, blood is always blood and outsiders are meant to be kept where they deserve to be,” uncle Raymond said a slight disgust in his voice and later scoffed, ”Just because the actual news doesn't come up in front of the common men and women, it doesn't mean things are peachy. People are killed every day because of people with your thinking think they are harmless when in fact they pose the greatest threat to mankind. I was the one to get you a decent home, our family has been very welcoming. It's time you repay our kindness girl.”
Heidi clutched her hand tightly on the other side where no one could see. He didn't have to tell her that she wasn't related to them. If it weren't for her mother Helen Curtis she would have run long ago. Her uncle didn't stop his talk there though, he continued,
”I have turned around your life. Don't forget that. If it weren't for me you very well know where you would be,” his malicious smile scared her. She felt the hair at the back of her neck stand due to fear creeping into her mind, ”I do hope for your own good that you cooperate willingly. Okay?” and when she didn't answer she heard her father's stern voice to answer her uncle's question.
”Yes,” she answered making her uncle smile. She then heard her father speak, ”We know you are smarter and responsible than Nora, sending her would not guarantee the Duke's plan.”
Uncle Raymond then got up from his seat, ”Very well then. I will be back in a few days to speak about the next arrangements.”
That night after everyone had gone back to their respective rooms, Heidi sat at the foot of her bed, rewinding the words her uncle had spoken to her. She was supposed to wed a man in less than a few weeks, a marriage which was for political convenience. To go to a land where she hadn't been before, to be around people she had never seen, spoken or known.
Everything felt so out of place in her head and confused she didn't know what to do. She wasn't comfortable going there. She wanted to marry someone of her choice. What hurt her was that her father had agreed to his brother's suggestion of sending her in place of Nora. She knew she wasn't his daughter in blood as she didn't share anyone's blood here. She knew if her mother Helen was alive she wouldn't be put through this, she would have avoided the situation.