Bedding My Vampire Mate

To save his life Chris would do anything and he proved it by not letting go of Audrey's hand even though she had ordered him to let go twice.

"Don't blame me for…,"

"Audrey can we talk for a minute, please… I will tell you what you don't know about the incident that took place that night," Chris threw the bait with the hope that she would grab it.

"I have nothing to say to you so leave my hand while I am still talking nicely," Audrey refused to see reasons for anything he said.

"Even though you don't have anything to say to me, I do…. Listen to me talk while you wait for Miss Joanna to join you or don't tell me you are going to call off your appointment with her because of me?" Chris asked despite knowing that there was no way Joanna was gonna come to the bar.

With Kayden keeping her occupied he doubted whether she still recalled her appointment with Audrey.

"You are not that important so why should…,"

"Then prove it," Chris cut in abruptly. He silently prayed that his last trick will work. He has exhausted all his options to make her stay, he wouldn't know what to do if she insisted on going.

"I will not leave and that is to prove to you that you are not important to me and never will you be even in the future," Audrey stated fiercely.

She flung his hand away and walked back to her seat.

Chris secretly let out a sigh of relief seeing that he has momentarily saved himself from the King's wrath.

He heeled her. And when he reached her table he took his previous position on the black couch.

"The future is still very far. Anything can happen…,"

"Cut out with the nonsense if you don't want me to kick you out of my table," Audrey threatened, her fierce glares directed at him.

Because she was waiting for Joanna's arrival she didn't touch the bottle of vodka.

Now she was provoked and in need of something to calm her down, she picked up the bottle of vodka and poured its contents into one of the wine glasses.

"Audrey, His Majesty isn't as bad as you think," Chris said in a composed tone, his gaze glued on the angry lady's face.

The way she sipped from the glass of vodka was as though she wasn't the one Chris was talking to.

"He loves her a whole lot more than you or anyone else thinks…,"

"He loves her?" Audrey chuckled. She lowered the glass of vodka and dropped it on the brown table.

"If he loves her as you said then why did he just watch them kill her?... Why didn't he avenge her death but instead treated me like an insane person?" Audrey said with clenched fists.

"He loves her…,"

"Enough with the cock and bull story Christopher," Audrey cut in sharply. "Although I haven't been in love with anyone I have a little knowledge about love so don't you dare think you can fool me with your lies…,"

"But I am not lying right now," Chris asserted. He leaned back on the couch and crossed his long legs.

"I know you are mad at me and His Highness because of what happened that night but what if I tell you that his Majesty behaved the way he did that night to save you?" Chris asked not to take his eyes off Audrey.

"And what if I proved you wrong by saying that his Majesty didn't spare those involved in the incident that night?" Chris questioned.

Audrey, pretending that he was invisible, raised her head and stared at him after he finished his last sentence.

"And what is that supposed to mean?" Audrey demanded in a firm tone.

"He made me promise not to utter any word to you or Miss Joanna but I know explanations are needed to resolve the misunderstanding between the two of you," Chris explained softly.

It doesn't matter if anyone criticised him for the incident that took place that night, he can't see the King being misunderstood for what happened that night.

The King was innocent of all allegations made against him by Audrey.

"That night the King had ordered me to follow Miss Joanna after she dashed out of the hotel that night but…," Chris trailed.

Though he feels terrible for what Joanna had to pass through in the hands of those scums that night, he doesn't regret choosing to stay behind to protect the King.

"But what happened?" Audrey asked, diverting her gaze to Chris' face.

"But I disobeyed his orders and stayed behind when I saw strange men at the hotel constantly watching the King," Chris said without saying an ounce of lies.

He could still vividly recall what happened that night.

When he saw the strange men, he had asked two of the guards to follow Joanna while he chose to stay behind to keep an eye on the King.

"You disobeyed the King and you are still alive?" Audrey asked, sounding unconvinced.

"I know you don't believe what I said but let me tell you how it all began," Chris replied. He adjusted well on the couch and started relaying the full incident of what happened that fateful night.

As Chris was relaying his story, back at Audrey's apartment, Joanna was seen leaving the house after she got a call from someone.

She proceeded to the elevator after jamming the apartment door.

"I wonder why he asked me to go to the landlady's room on the fifth floor," Joanna standing inside the elevator waiting for it to stop at her designated floor muttered.

Two minutes later the elevator dinged on the fifth floor. Joanna took in a deep breath to calm her nerves before she majestically stepped out of the elevator.

With calculated footsteps, she approached the landlady's apartment which happened to be the only apartment on the fifth floor.

DING DONG! DING DONG!

Joanna rang the doorbell and waited for a response.