Evan ordered the castle sealed off. I huddled in a corner wrapped in his cloak, feeling cold.
In a trance, I recalled a cold winter a few Evanars ago when I caught a cold. He staEvand by my bedside, even cradling my cold, mortal feet in his arms to try to warm them. He said, "Elaine, I remember you fear the cold. From now on, every night, I will keep you warm."
But three months ago, I was extremely weak due to a miscarriage. I was trembling with blood loss.
But because Lilith said she wanted to watch the snowy night, Evan forcibly brought me from my sickbed to the frozen mountains to watch them frolic in the snow and sip on icy blood wine. I slipped repeatedly in the ice and snow, the chill penetrating my bones. To this day, every time it rains or snows, my body aches.
"Sister Elaine, what are you daydreaming about?" Lilith came over with a glass of blood-red wine and deliberately spilled it on me. "Oh, I'm so sorry! But it's okay. This cloak was given to me by Lord Evan. I can just get a new one if it gets dirty."
Before she could finish her words, she suddenly covered her neck and exclaimed, "Where's my blood diamond necklace? The one that Master Evan gave me! I was wearing it just now. I just went to the bathroom, and when I came back, it was gone!"
The hall was instantly silent, with only the crackling of the flames in the fireplace as the only sound.
Lilith glanced at me, her gaze blatantly challenging me. "Just now, only Sister Elaine was packing. Did you hide it in the suitcase while no one was paying attention? And since your brother needs a blood treatment to stay alive, he desperately needs to get some valuables away."
"I didn't take it!" I stood up suddenly.
"Who would believe that?" Zane immediately agreed. "You've always coveted Lord Evan's power and wealth. Now that you're leaving, how could you leave empty-handed? Search her suitcase!"
Evan frowned and looked at my suitcase. "Elaine, open it and let them search it. If they don't take it, I'll clear your name."
My heart sank into an ice cellar.
Inside the trunk, I found a signed agreement to release the blood contract. He'd written it himself when he'd first brought me back to the castle. He'd handed it to me: "Elaine, I know you Evanarn for freedom. If ever you feel wronged, take this agreement and leave. I won't stop you. But I swear to treat you well forever and never give you a reason to leave."
But now, he has long forgotten it.
Fearing they would discover the agreement, I held onto the suitcase tightly, "No search!"
"Feeling guilty?" Lilith stepped forward to grab the box. "Master Evan, judging by her reaction, she must have stolen it!"
Evan didn't give me a chance to explain, he just grabbed the suitcase and unzipped it.
His fellow vampires gathered around, their eEvans scanning my mortal clothing and odds and ends critically.
"What kind of low-quality fabrics are these? How can such vulgar things be brought into the Evan family castle?"
"Tsk, this broken copper ring is considered a treasure?"
Lilith contemptuously threw the ring made of the copper coin into the silver waste bucket beside her.
I stared at Evan, but he didn't react.
Just as they were about to reach the mezzanine, Lilith suddenly raised a necklace and screamed, "It's this! My necklace! Sister Elaine, how could you steal my things?"
It was a relic of my mother, a silver necklace with a small crescent moon pendant - silver is poisonous to vampires, but my mother is human.
I instinctively rushed over to grab it back: "This is not yours! My mother left it to me!"
"You're talking nonsense!" Lilith looked at Evan aggrievedly. "When Lord Evan gave it to me, the pendant was inlaid with a blood diamond! You must have gouged it out!"
Evan grabbed my wrist, the cold touch making me shudder. He forced me to look up, his tone as cold as permafrost: "Elaine, return the necklace to Lilith."
"This is my mother's legacy!" I struggled desperately. "Evan, have you forgotten? When my mother gave me the necklace before she died, you were by her side! You even said you would protect me for her!"
He didn't look at me, but just pulled the necklace hard.
With a light "snap" sound, the silver chain broke and the small silver moon fell on the cold floor.
Lilith rushed over and stomped her high-heeled feet on it.
The silver moon was instantly twisted and deformed, and the ancient lines on the edges shattered.
"You're crazy!" I pushed her in anger.
She screamed "Ah" and deliberately fell backwards, knocking over the tower cup filled with blood wine next to her.
Crash! The crystal glass shattered to the ground, spilling crimson liquid and ice onto me. My arm was scratched by the fragments, and blood oozed out, mixing with the blood wine and flowing down.
Evan didn't even glance at me. He rushed over and hugged Lilith, his voice trembling slightly. "Lilith! Are you hurt? Did the silver object touch you?"
Lilith sobbed in his arms. He patted her back and ordered the butler in a stern voice, "Call the blood doctor quickly!"
His friends gathered around Lilith, concerned about her. No one asked if I was in pain, and no one paid any attention to the twisted silver relic on the ground.
I squatted down and picked up the deformed silver moon, my fingertips stained with my own blood and cold blood wine.
The immortal music in the castle was still playing, but the last glimmer of hope in my heart was completely shattered.
We can't stay here any longer. As long as I can buy my father's painting at the secret auction in a few days, I'll take my brother and leave. The painting is my father's legacy, which he sold to save Evan.
