Married To The Mad Vampire Lord novel Chapter 325

Chapter 325: Time with the marquis _Part 2

"I... I was only keeping a promise my grandfather made, that’s all. I had no choice but to give him my daughter to marry."

Rohan’s brows arched as he asked, "And how does your grandfather happen to know about James and make this marriage arrangement?"

"It’s a past history that has nothing to do with you, my Lord. I don’t see how my family history concerns you," Marquis Hart said uneasily but firmly.

"I am just curious, Sire, and once my curiosity is piqued, unless I get the answers, I get so restless that I kill a noble before I feel better. You are the only noble here, help me soothe this curiosity," Rohan said with a look so harmless one would think he was not capable of killing, but even the Marquis knew better from those eyes.

To protect his life, he decided to speak.

"Many years ago," the Marquis said, "the Marchant family held the position of the Marquis before my family."

It wasn’t a secret, it was just that only the elders knew of this, and many of those had died. The new generation came to know the Hart family, not the Marchant family as the marquis.

Marquis Hart thought as he continued, "When the Marchants were still in the position, my family held the position of Baron. We were close friends and even had a connection through marriage, my grand-aunt was married to the Marquis then and they even had a son."

Rohan frowned. He was not pleased to know that the Marchant in his wife’s dream was real, but he wanted to hear what had happened and asked, "And what happened to the Marchants that made them lose that position?"

"I wasn’t born when it happened but... I only heard about it. The family got entangled in a scandal with the Duke’s family that brought their end and death. The entire family died, and people said it was because they were cursed. Their death was unexpected, every single one of them was gone except a little boy sired by Deven Marchant. Harrison was his name, and he survived.

They died in an unusual fire and everything burned down, but when the fire happened, the young boy was at a friend’s house and missed the fate. Harrison was Jamie Marchant’s grandfather, who was taken in by my family, being the only distant relative he had left, as his grandmother was a Hart. He lived with the Harts and became friends with my father. But something happened that made the boy run away without telling anyone, and he was never found no matter how my family looked for him.

Years later, Harrison returned to Aragonia with his new family, having married so young and grown up on a farm somewhere in Barbara. They had a son, and he swore to have nothing to do with his family’s fortune as he believed it to be cursed, like the rumors said. Even though my father talked him into rising back to power, he had grown without education and was no longer interested in the Marchants’ lost title, as many had forgotten about them by then.

He raised his son without telling him about his past, and then it was said Harrison died of illness and was soon followed closely by his wife, leaving the boy they had sired behind. The boy grew up in Aragonia but had little to no education just like his father, and he took on the farm and ranch work Harrison left behind and got married.

That was how they had Jamie Marchant and a girl, Lilly Marchant, you see. But as much as my family didn’t want anything to do with the Marchants anymore, as they had distanced themselves, my father, who has been disabled in bed for so long, met Jamie when my wife invited him to make a dress for him for my daughter’s debut season to be matched for marriage."

The Marquis’ face scrunched in displeasure as he continued. "That’s when my father remembered his friendship with the late Harrison Marchant, because the boy looked so much like his grandfather. And now he is hellbound on making it up to him by having me help the boy, to give him a title and a marriage proposal." 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

The Marquis turned and looked at the vampire by his side and added, "So you see how I have no choice? My father means a lot to me, and I will fulfill his wishes no matter what society thinks. I will make that nobody my in-law."

Rohan, who had been listening silently, let the man’s word’s settle in his head before he asked, "Do you by any chance know anything about Deven Marchant before his death?"

"Everything I told is all I know. I don’t know anything about him or his family then, as I wasn’t there," the Marquis said quickly, hoping the vampire would leave and spare him.

Rohan could tell the man was telling the truth. Now that he already knew the dream his wife was having was not just a dream but something that had seemed to happen, he wanted to know the details and what role Deven Marchant had played.

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