Betrayed By The Hero, Loved By The Lord-Chapter 252: Gabriel’s mistake (2)

Gabriel put up a fight to get out of the guard’s hold, which only resulted in making his wound worse. "You bastard!" He spat. "You couldn’t fight me alone without your guards."

"I could, but you’re beneath me. Hold him steady," Xavier said, opening Gabriel’s shirt to check what wound was making him so weak. "You were stabbed with a holy weapon. You might not make it through the night."

Xavier was surprised that Gabriel wasn’t already dead.

Was his will to see Selene what kept him going?

"It wasn’t worth it for you to come here. If that wife you brought here is the one who stabbed you, you should have gone to the other guards or the palace. Not here to seek pity from Selene. You won’t get it," Xavier said, closing back up Gabriel’s shirt.

Seeing that it was a holy weapon which caused the pain, Xavier didn’t want Gabriel inside the estate. He didn’t know how close Selene needed to be to someone to heal them, and there was something to enjoy about Gabriel slowly dying from the mistake he had made.

"You’re wrong. Cassandra didn’t do this to me," Gabriel said, speaking the truth.

It was a man he didn’t know, so Xavier was making a wrong guess.

Gabriel was also puzzled as to how Xavier came to think Cassandra would be the one to injure him with a holy weapon. What had led Xavier to assume this? What did Xavier know about Cassandra that anyone else did not know?

Gabriel now believed Xavier was aware Cassandra was one of the enemies of the kingdom all along, but he did nothing to warn him.

In Gabriel’s eyes, Xavier’s hatred for him should not be more than finding out who was killing vampires. Xavier should have some of the blame concerning Cassandra.

"You are trying to figure out how much I know about your little wife. Why? Did you just find out you were sleeping with, or had you suspected it before she stabbed you? I am curious why she kept you alive," Xavier said, pressing his hand against Gabriel’s wound to hear him cry out.

"Cassandra didn’t do this to me-"

"If the priest she meets with is the one who stabbed you, it doesn’t matter. She is involved, and you are her husband. I’ve always wondered how well you knew her before you brought her here to get under Selene’s skin," said Xavier. fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓

Xavier had always believed Gabriel grabbed the first woman who showed him a bit of attention and brought her home.

So far, Xavier wasn’t able to trace where Cassandra came from, so she might have been perfectly placed by Gabriel’s side, and Gabriel, blinded by hurting Selene, did not notice that something was off.

Xavier laughed. Gabriel never failed to do something foolish.

Instead of using his hand again, Xavier stood up and pressed his shoe down on Gabriel’s chest.

"You only now realise how much it wasn’t worth it to betray Selene? It took you being stabbed to realise what you lost?" Xavier asked, pressing down as hard as he could as he spoke. "I could have stabbed you if that was what you needed."

Gabriel tried to free his hands from the guard’s hold to get Xavier’s shoe off of him. He felt the need to throw up, and he was almost certain it would be blood coming out of his mouth.

"I didn’t know," Gabriel tried to defend himself.

"I’m glad you didn’t know. If you did, you wouldn’t have brought her here, and Selene might still be married to you. Your mistakes sometimes work in my favour. You lost all chances to fix your problems with Selene the moment you brought home that woman," said Xavier.

Xavier looked back at Lucas, who came with the other guards. "Lucas, keep Selene as far away from the dungeon as possible-"

"No!" Gabriel yelled, only to have his mouth covered.

"Take her for a ride out back or something. Just for a moment, so I can get him inside," Xavier said, changing his mind.

Letting Gabriel go free would only cause problems in the future, especially when Gabriel had convinced himself he was in love with Selene again and Selene might love him back.

Keeping Gabriel in the dungeon would free Selene from worrying about him, and Morgana would have some company.

"I’m the captain of the town guards!" Gabriel yelled, reminding Xavier of his new status.

Xavier waited for Lucas to start leaving before he acknowledged Gabriel again. "I don’t care what you are. You’re still the same fool I despise. You should see this as a good favour. Should Darius hear your wife knows the ones behind the attacks, then he will place blame on you and strip you of everything you have."

Gabriel didn’t see Xavier putting him in a dungeon as a favour. "You’re going to kill me. How is that any better?"

"It’s better than getting blamed for something you weren’t involved in. Lift him and take him to the dungeon. If he gets out of your hold, then you will join him in the dungeon," Xavier said, moving his foot so Gabriel could get up. "Get rid of the horse."

Xavier turned around to head back inside the gates and join in taking Gabriel to the dungeon. He wasn’t concerned if any passing carriages or spies were lingering.

If anyone wanted to get Gabriel back, they would have to do so in blood.

"You can’t do this to me. I’m the captain of the town guards. I only came to see Selene," Gabriel said, continuing to put up a fight against Xavier’s guards.

He didn’t understand where so many guards had come from when there had only been two at the gate earlier. It was like they popped out of the ground.

"Lord Blackthorn."

"You may knock him out," Xavier responded to the guard without having to hear what they wanted.

Gabriel panicked and looked at the guards holding him. "Don’t-" his words were silenced, and the world went black.

When Gabriel woke up, he was in an unfamiliar place. He immediately sat up, knowing this had to be Xavier’s dungeon.

"That bastard," Gabriel muttered, looking around his surroundings.

"You should shut up so they don’t pour cold water on you," Morgana said, annoyed by the person Xavier had placed in the cell next to her own. "I don’t want to go through that again because of you."

Gabriel looked to his right after hearing a familiar voice. He noticed a woman and right away thought his eyes were playing tricks on him. "Princess?"

"Don’t speak to me. You should worry about yourself since he ordered the guards to tell him when you are awake. You’re that hero who was married to his wife. You’re one of the people I hate," Morgana revealed.

Had Gabriel been better at his marriage, then Selene wouldn’t have ended up in Xavier’s arms, and like her brother, Morgana wasn’t fond of mixed-bloods. Gabriel gave her all the more reason to keep despising mixed-bloods.

Gabriel paid little attention to what Morgana said. He was focused on the fact that Xavier had managed to imprison the princess.

When even the princess wasn’t safe, it started to dawn on Gabriel how much danger he had just stumbled upon, and the worst part was that he had brought himself to the estate.