Married To The Mad Vampire Lord novel Chapter 441

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Chapter 441: First set of souls to take

The revelation of Belle once being a reaper, and now having to take back souls, changed every plan they had about going away to the mountains earlier. She couldn’t go away when a heavy responsibility had fallen on her head now, something she couldn’t run away from as it would catch up to her no matter where she went. No hiding from her destiny.

The first soul she was meant to carry was only a month away, and soon enough, the time came. Rohan took her there that evening.

It was a woman and her family of three, a mother with three children. She wasn’t even sick, but because her own mother was never supposed to live long enough to have her, Belle had to wipe away every one of the lives she had given birth to, including the mother herself.

It was hard. Belle wasn’t a reaper without feelings anymore. She was human, a wife, a mother, and watching the family she would soon destroy broke her heart.

When taking a soul, their death must not be abrupt or unexplained to humans, or it might raise unnecessary attention. Hence, she was now supposed to create a scenario that would lead to their deaths, and she had already done so.

Earlier, Belle had been in the kitchen while the mother was cooking for her family. She had the power to be invisible to her victims and to those close to them. It had torn at her inside, but she had dropped a poisonous plant into the pot the moment the mother finished serving her husband’s food, as he wasn’t part of her victims.

Their deaths needed a cause, and poison was the only thing she could think of.

Now, she watched them eat dinner together. Seeing the father and mother laugh at something their youngest daughter said, Belle felt a thorn in her throat and a heaviness in the hands that held the scythe.

Kuhn stood beside her, the creature who, on the very day she returned, had appeared to welcome her as his master.

"Welcome back, master," the creature had greeted. Belle hadn’t known what to say. She didn’t feel like his master. She understood now why Kuhn had never told her about her past. If he had, she would have been caught much sooner, and the people she was trying to protect might have fallen into greater danger. He had done it to protect her, and her secret.

Now, they both stood invisible in the family’s dining room.

Belle looked down at the ticking brown watch in her hand, reading the time and seeing that they had only a few minutes left. She wished time would move slower, just so the husband could share this last meal with them. But they didn’t even get to finish eating before the time ticked out in her hands.

This was worse than anything she had ever faced, but she had to do it.

The youngest daughter fell off her chair first, vomiting white foam from her mouth. The mother, who hurriedly left her seat to check on her daughter, also collapsed. One after another, the poison began to take effect on those who had consumed it.

With a heavy heart, Belle raised her scythe and swept it across them. Just like that, Kuhn fed on their last moments, and their souls drifted out like smoke slipping through fabric.

The husband fell to his knees, crying like a wounded animal when none of his family had breath left in them. The four souls watched in horror. Belle didn’t give them time to linger in the living world, she swiped them through the portal and sent them into the other world.