Athena kept standing frozen and was too speechless over his blatant words as she didn't expect to hear it from Zave's mouth. Ogling from her body from head to toe, Zave's smirk didn't fade away once he imagined in his mind that how her body would feel under his touch.

Intially he had no intention of visiting this dirty woman before marriage at all. But his cunning mother suggested that if he aimed the throne sincerely, Athena's support would favor his position a lot. After all, every living vampire respected their princess a lot and was bound to consider her spoken words. Somehow if he could make her fall in his honey trap, the path towards his throne would become more smooth.

But this words were unknown to Athena as she never paid attention over Zave at all. The fact that he was the right hand of Queen Mother was enough to disgust him till death. Unfortunately she had no way out rather than agreeing with this so called marriage.

For a moment, she started feeling discomfortable under his intense gaze as if he was stripping her naked invisibly. His gaze appeared lustful rather than a man who fell in love at first sight. His eyes unleashed an evil aura that was discomforting her state of mind continuously.

After hearing out his mushy answer, she became a little unprepared and managed to reply abruptly,

" I..I didn't accuse you. I was just wandering what made you come at this hour."

In response, she heard a bone chilling laughter containing too many unspoken words innerly. Raising up his sharped eyebrows, Zave replied reasonably,

" We vampires are more active at night, Princess. So I thought of coming here at this hour. I hope that I haven't disturbed your resting time."

Athena shook her head slightly denying his words and replied formally,

" It's not bothersome. Wanna fetch some tea? I should call out the maids."

She clearly didn't want to stay alone with him. For an unknown reason, his presence didn't make her feeling secured rather it suffocated her inner peace.Even back at those days, she didn't feel such discomfortness around Ethan when they first met in human world. Comparing to Zave, Ethan always gave him a sense of security that helped her mind to behave freely around him.

Hiding the discomfortness, she wished to keep other accompanies thus suggested this idea purposely. Watching their personal being interrupted by maids, Zave wasn't pleased thus hurriedly stopped her ,

" No need, Princess. I just came to talk with you."

Athena paused abruptly before turning grim when his intense gaze didn't move away from her face. Feeling a little troubled, she responded lowering her gaze down,

" Mmm..Sure.. what do you want to say? "

Zave smiled gently before stealing a glimpse through the floating curtains. The sky was bright emitting a lit warm light of moon that illuminated the entire flowing river outside of the castle. The weather at that moment was exceptionally romantic tonight thus a sudden thought came across his mind.

Turning around, he proposed boldly keeping sharp observation over her expression,

" Can we walk over to the river, Princess? I think the weather today is far more suitable for our first date."

Athena was stunned before started pondering for a while. The word date buzzed venomously in her ears as if it was great sin for her. Even though spending time with fiance was legitimate in their clan but her mind wasn't in eased up unknowingly. Too sad, she couldn't refuse him right at that moment.

Thus she could only give him a polite smile silently which he took as agreement.Curling up into a crooked smile, he walked over the doorway before shifting aside and gestured respectively,

" After you, my Lady."

Athena blinked feeling utterly confused over his extra ambiguous behavior and followed his way quitely. Behind him, Zave closely trailed her off as his lips carried a mysterious smile.

Following up their paces, the maids giggled shyly watching them walking outside and found that Zave was too adorable.

A few moments later, two of them had arrived near the jungle river that was flowing closely nearby the palace. Under the brightness of moonlight, the surface of water reflected like silver palate as if anyone could see her own reflection into it.

The both of them didn't talk and silently enjoyed the cold breez brushing against their cold skin. Zave smiled profoundly and tried to warm up the conversation,

" How are you doing in this palace? After all, it is way too old than moonshine."

Athena replied briefly,

" Pretty well."

Zave felt a little disappointed and asked cautiously,

" Have you thought about living anywhere else after our marriage?"

Athena was silent at the thought of living together after marriage made her heart throbbing in pain. Shaking her head slightly, she answered lowly,

" I haven't thought of anything yet."

A deep smile flashed across over Zave's face as he suggested with deeper meaning,

" I have prepared a castle for you but it will take longer time to finish off the work. So I'm afraid that you will have a bit trouble living with me for a few days. I thought..how about you ask your brother to live in the moonshine castle after our marriage? We can move out later on after our marriage. What do you say?"

Athena knitted her eyebrows tightly and didn't feel better after hearing out his suggestion. She was marrying off to another man, why did she still need to bother her family members?

This thoughts were buried deep down as she started contemplating in her thoughts deeply. On the other side, another man had already arrived in the SASHA PALACE and was remained motionless after watching the duo standing at the river side.

It appeared like they were spending an intimate moment in this beautiful weather!

MOONSHINE CASTLE,

As soon as Aaron's firm statement came out,the staffs were more stunned than Esme who kept staring at Aaron's way blankly.

She couldn't believe that Aaron could send her into confinement room for this reason!

But she wasn't ready to beg for her forgiveness thus she kept calm as the guards started approaching towards her slowly. They were unwilling to confine their queen like a prisoner but as a mere guard, they didn't bother to speak out.

Moving beside her side, one of the gaurd gestured Esme to follow his footsteps wheraous the guards surrounded them from back. Swallowing down her bitter feelings, she took a glimpse of Aaron's icy face one last time before looking away.

On the other hand, Aaron's expression remained expressionless as if his whole sanity had dived into the depth of ocean. When the guards started pulling her outside, he couldn't keep his eyes on her anymore. He feared that if he spotted her sympathetic gaze just once, he wouldn't hesitate to take back his order.

Thus he turned around avoiding her leaving figure and kept staring at a distance blankly. The pain inside his heart was too severe that made his each breathing suffocated.

Sometimes hurting your loved ones is the worst feeling that you could ever feel!!

As her light footsteps started drifting away, each piece of his heart started collapsing like a broken piece of woods leaving no space to be mended.He never wished to punish her but the fact that she continued lying standing in front of him made his heart angered to death.

Why couldn't she share herself with him? Was he too unworthy to be loved? Or did he done anything wrong to break her trust on him?

He couldn't figure out at all thus his mind worked chaotic after hearing so much lies from him.

Crossing his arms behind, he inhaled a deep breath before calling out a name loudly,

" Jasper!!!"

Jasper remained too motionless over the doorway as he couldn't believe his own eyes that what he had witnessed just now.

His lord has punished his beloved wife just like this? What made him so enlarged?

He gathered too much thoughts but didn't dare to spit it out as Aaron was already furious over him.

Swallowing hard bitterly, he rushed inside the courtroom and gave a long bow respectively,

" My Lord, is there anything else that I need to do?"

Aaron didn't turn around and kept silent for a while. Exhaling a deep breath, he ordered in a low voice,

" Don't touch her a little bit and keep her starved till tomorrow. Do not apply the prisoner rules on her.Remember that she is culprit only to me, not to the kingdom of vampires."

Jasper's mouth fell open in awe as he couldn't decipher that what kind of punishment was that!

My Lord, it was far more better that you would Keep lady locked inside the bedroom. After all, living inside a dark room wasn't so bad for two or three days.

Forget about two or three days! Perhaps he wouldn't keep her for a single day in that confinement room.

Jasper could only nod helplessly!