SPELLBOUND

Chapter 451 - Dilemma

As soon as Claudius left, Evie headed over to Queen Beatrice's room. Her guard, Alvion, bowed when he saw her and naturally allowed her to enter into the room. The three noble ladies that were part of the entourage and who accompanied Queen Beatrice were also there, watching her closely.

Evie now realized just how protected Queen Beatrice was. As she looked at her beautiful sleeping face, Evie smiled. She looked so peaceful and even more youthful in her sleep. No wonder King Belial loved her so. No hot-blooded male would be able to resist such gentle beauty. And more so, Queen Beatrice's personality was already a winner. Therefore, just those two factors alone were enough to understand why King Belial was head over heels in love with his wife.

Thinking along these lines, Evie was reminded of Claudius words where he said that this queen was King Belial's greatest weakness. Silently, Evie shook her head. She thought that that statement would never come from King Belial's mouth. Opposite to that in fact, Evie believes that the queen was not his weakness. In fact, it was the other way around where she believes this queen was the source of his strength. Because he loves her so much and wants to protect her so badly, that in itself was a mighty encouragement for him to grow stronger.

But she did not say anything about it and tried to explain her thoughts on this with Claudius earlier. First reason was, they truly did not have any more time to waste, and next was Evie understood why they would think that Queen Beatrice was the king's greatest weakness. She thought that it must be due to the fact where Queen Beatrice could weaken the king whenever she needed to drink his blood. Even because of this fact, Evie still thinks it was not right for them to think of her as the King's greatest weakness because she believes the queen was definitely not. And to top it all, Evie could clearly sense that Queen Beatrice was actually very powerful. Since she had just met Queen Beatrice, she was not sure how the queen portrayed herself to the people here. Perhaps she might be hiding her strength or maybe there was just no need for her to display her real power as King Belial was doing such a good job up till now to keep her safe. Whatever it was, Evie was pretty sure of her own sense where the queen had very deep reserves of power just held under great control by the queen herself.

And this was why Evie still decided to tell Queen Beatrice this secret when she wakes up. Evie was aware of the possible risks. But… for some reason, Evie just did not believe that Queen Beatrice was completely oblivious of the real purpose on why her husband allowed her to travel so far away from the capital and even without him. The queen was not a simple minded and straight lady. The fact that she could be a queen of a people of a totally different race and still remain as one beside King Belial for so long in this place just goes to proof that she was an able ruler. Moreover, she believed that in this place, Queen Beatrice would be her closest and greatest ally. And she believes that if they work together, they could do greater things and contribute to stopping this upcoming disaster.

When she left the room, Evie headed to the hall where the vampires were gathered and spent a short time mingling around and catching up with them before getting her own breakfast.

While waiting for Queen Beatrice to wake up, Evie decided to do something about Gideon. This troubled brother-in-law of hers was truly an enigma! She needed to figure him out while it is still early but… how?

She also thought of Gav and wondered where he was right now. Leon and Zanya supposed to have reached them last night. She wondered if Gav knew where she was at right now. Looking outside the window and staring at the dark city, Evie took a deep sigh. She was starting to miss Gav so bad.

But she smiled as she touched her still flat stomach. Somehow, she had a feeling that they will be reuniting together as a family of two plus one again soon and that feeling was enough to make her feel quite relieved. That though brought a dazzling smile to grace her already beautiful features. Those who were looking at her, found her smile to be so beautiful that they were tongue tied and in a daze as their queen's stunning features were impressed upon their minds.

Her thoughts then returned to her current dilemma which was no other than Gideon. She still believed that he was going to be focal point of everything that will be unfolding in the future. If only he was willing to open up to her and stop fighting all on his own and start involving others to help. She could understand if it were others who did not know. But he already knew that she too knew about the upcoming disaster. So why was he still so reluctant to open up? She did not need him to tell her everything at one go, but at least a little would not hurt.

Somehow, Evie could not help but compare Gideon to how Gav was when he was Gavrael. Both of them were lone wolves who act as though they do not need anyone or any help at all. Suddenly, something came into Evie's thoughts. That was right, she had yet to mention to Gideon about Gav's situation, that his dark fae side seemed to have left his body for good now. Should she mention this to him?

Evie paced back and forth by the window. Thinking hard on what the best decision would be for her to come to. It was hard for her to decide as she still could not fully trust Gideon when it is related to her husband. She had already decided Gideon was not the villain she thought that he was but… what if he ends up doing something to Gav once he finds out Gav no longer has his dark magic? On the other hand, what if it could change Gideon's mind or might even help Gav to regain his dark magic and dark fae side if he found out about this matter?

For the first time in a long while, Evie found herself extremely indecisive as she kept vacillating between the options she had.

When time passed and she still could not decide, Evie went to visit Vera. She found her sitting there alone in her room and she was not sleeping. She was just seated beside the window, her unseeing eyes staring out in a daze.

Looking at her, Evie felt sad. Slowly, she approached her and sat on the bed.

"How are you?" Evie asked. Vera blinked before turning to look at Evie and she smiled.

"I still can't believe I'm seeing you in a place like this Ev…" Vera trailed off. She could tell with one glance that this was no longer the frail little young lady she had met before during those days long passed. Even the feeling she invoked within her was so different. This Evie was nothing like that little girl. And even before she had found out from the woman tending to her that Evie was now a queen, a very powerful queen, Vera had already somehow sensed that Evie was now someone so high, so powerful that she was no longer worthy to even call her 'Evie' anymore. "… Your Majesty.." Vera stood from her chair and gave a respectful bow to Evie.