Queen Era: The Monster I Love - Chapter 137

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CHAPTER 135

Several thoughts ran through her mind at that moment, she was already criticizing and scolding herself for her mistake. She had earlier not thought about things this way but now, it seemed to be going in that direction.

So when Vidor heard the call the second time, he got scared that’s he might leave and instant raced to the door, ignoring the dripping blood on his hand and opened the door himself.

With her busy mind she failed to hear the door open but the next thing she saw, was a tall handsome gorgeously looking, spectacularly well created young man, looking at her with sadness in those beautiful eyes of his.

At first, Era did not say anything, she stood there, unable to move and transfixed by his gaze.

It was not until his servants and Eunuch bowed before him, calling out his name that she knew what was going on, still, she found it difficult to peel her gaze away and bow before him.

All of a sudden, she saw his eunuch raise his head a bit and gasped before uttering. “Your, your majesty. Your hand.”

Her gaze fell from his face that moment to the hand that was mentioned and when she saw the blood pouring out, her mouth fell open, shock registered in her eyes and on her face as she slowly, looked up to see him.

He did not move, he was not shaken by the blood even though he felt pain. Just seeing her beautiful face and being standing before him, seemed to soothe his body, soul and mind as well as the pain.

“Your majesty,” his attendants called out to him. They had to dare because they were scared. Their king was hurt. If anything went wrong, they would go in for it, definitely.

“My… queen.” It felt as though his words had finally broken her out from her trance and her mind started working automatically.

“Umm, you are hurt,” Era stated, reaching for his hand and holding it with her shaky hands. “Quick, get the physician for his majesty,” Era ordered not bothering to pull her gaze off, Vidor.

To a large extent, he was glad she was here but he did not want any third party disturbing them. Quickly he lifted his free hand and shooed them away. “Do not worry.”

“What do you mean by that?” Era fired at him. “You are bleeding,” she added still.

“Yes. It is just a mild wound. I would be fine.”

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“Be fine! Are you kidding me? This is a deep wound.” She turned his hand so his palm was facing upwards for emphasis but to her own shock, she was the one who was scared, scared for him.

Noticing her worry, Vidor’s heart began to jump for joy at this change and a small smile appeared on his face. “My queen, are you scared for me?”

“Huh?” She looked at him, her confusion so full and etched deep on her face. “What?” She shook her head.

No Vidor was mesmerizing her with his lovely eyes. She should not fall for it.

“No. I am not. It is only proper that you treat it. See,” she pointed at the floor underneath his hand. You have bled enough. Hurry, send for the royal physician. It should not take long for him to arrive. Meanwhile, come with me let me tend to your wound first and stop the bleeding.”

Hearing her plan, his cheeks puffed up and he looked at his Eunuch, using his eyes to warn him to delay.

Understanding his king, he bowed his head before them and disappeared, sending the other attendants away.

“Yes, your majesty, we would all dispatch and get the royal physician. Please help in treating his majesty, your majesty.”

“I would. You all should hurry.”

“Yes.”

Bowing one last time, they all dispersed away from their presence leaving them alone.

“Let’s go inside.”

At that moment, Era forgot about her fear and all that went on in her head was ensuring he was okay.

Together the king and queen of Etheria walked into his chambers and shut the door behind them. Waiting for her by the door, Vidor watched as she lead him to his cushion and made him sit before standing up and looking around.

“Looking for something?” He asked, noticing that she was getting worried.

‘Remind me again why I allowed every one of them to leave?’ Era thought within her before answering his question.

“Umm, I think I got it.” Ignoring protocols, she rushed into his bed-chamber, then straight to his bathroom and got clean water in a bowl. Surprisingly she found that there.

Then she returned but she did not see any clean cloth to use until Vidor pointed at his wardrobe area and directed her.

Once she had gotten what she needed, she went back to sit beside him and turned his palm to face her. Taking in a deep breath, she inspected the wound before looking up at him.

There was a large shard in his palm, preventing more and more blood from flowing out but in no doubt, it would be painful. “It would hurt but I believe…”

“Pull it out,” he ordered gently. What was she thinking of him as? A child or what?

Though he felt offended, he had to say, he was happy that’s he worried for him. “Okay then.”

She moved his hand under the bow and gently brought hers closer to his as she gently pulled it out, till she got the whole thing off.

Rather than shouting from the pain he felt now that his hand was free, he bit down on his lips, his gaze still focused on her beautiful face that seemed to have been drenched by her sweat.

Wasting no time, Era dipped his hand in the water and started cleaning the wound, using the clean thin clot. Once she was done, part of the cloth was wet, leaving her with another part.

She tore it and folded the non-wet pat and placed it on the wound, stopping the bleeding. She turned her head to the side. She needed more cloth.

“Ah.”

Her eyes lit up as an idea came to mind. “Hold it please.” He did not argue and did as instructed, then watched as she brought out her handkerchief and made it into a diagonal shape then brought it to his hand.

Within a few minutes, she had tied it up, using her handkerchief as a bandage and ensuring the bleeding stopped to some extent.

“There, not as perfect but it can slow things down a bit and when Louis come, he would treat you properly.”

“Thank you.”

“Hmm.” She did not respond to him. Honey, she was mad, so mad at him and he seemed to have gotten that so he probed further.

Since Louis was not coming any time soon, since he made sure of that, he might as well use the opportunity to get close to his wife.

“Hey. I said thank you.”

“And why should I accept it, huh? What were you thinking sending your eunuch and attendants away without asking for the royal physician? Why is Louis there? Is he for show?”

Her chest rose and fell with each angry word she let out. “Can you be reasonable? Do you think an injury is a child’s play?”

“I must say, though your words are a bit out of line, I am still king,” her eyes widened, as realization hit her. She had indeed spoken as though he was a dear close one. Her mistake.

Noticing her shock, he knew his joke had crossed the line with her so he thought to fix it up.

“And besides, I have gone to war plenty of times and got injuries that were worse than this but I still survived.”

“Even at that, what would you do if it got infected? Besides, why do you have a broken bottle in your hand? What did you do? What wrong did the poor cup do to you?”

“Oh, now you are siding the cup and not worried about me who got injured?”

“Tsk, shouldn’t I? After all, you have gotten injured more than this. Who would fight for the poor cup? Since my worry is not appreciated, I would give it to one who can’t even speak to refute it.”

He let out a sigh, realizing he had pissed her off so much.

“I’m sorry,” he suddenly voiced out when she turned her gaze from him. Her eyes had widened but quickly she masked her shock and turned her head a bit to the side to look at him.

“Why…” he shut his eyes. Since she was here, he might as well ask. “Why didn’t you come to visit?”

“Of course, I wanted to come and check on you but I did not want…”

That was it, Era turned her head swiftly in his direction as she defended herself, ignoring everything else, only to have him face to face with her and before she could do anything to move back, he snaked his right hand round her neck, holding her head in place as he captured her lips once more.