Betrayed By The Hero, Loved By The Lord-Chapter 245: Grave mistake (3)

Phillip ignored Cassandra and focused on the vampire she had injured. She was as foolish as Bryce said she had become, and when he received word she wanted to kill Gabriel, the church knew if this got out, their plans would be ruined.

The priests needed to silence Cassandra before she said too much. freeweɓnovel.cѳm

"I hope you don’t mind that I was unable to attend the wedding. Things got a little busy at home. I had hoped Cassandra was being a good wife to make up for my absence," Phillip said, finally peering down at Cassandra.

Cassandra gulped, more willing to test her luck with Gabriel than to go with Phillip.

Phillip smiled when he looked at Cassandra, but Cassandra had been around him long enough to know he only smiled when he was angry. She had messed up plenty of times in the past to know it.

Cassandra looked down at the floor. She had messed up, but the church did need this to finally move ahead with their plans. She could only hope they would forgive her and understand why she did this.

"Who are you?" Gabriel questioned, angry his guards and servants let a stranger get this far.

What confused Gabriel even more was what the stranger wore. It reminded him of the priests in the churches wore, but he had never seen a uniform with the cross pendant, and all the priests wore white. The man before him wore black.

"I’m the one who raised your wife. I found her at the side of the road, barely alive after her parents were killed by vampires. I took her in and gave her food and a place to rest. I did what I could to keep her alive, and in the end, this is how she repaid me," Phillip said, disappointed.

Phillip had done so much for Cassandra, yet she couldn’t have stayed by Gabriel’s side quietly until it was time for her to kill him.

"You," Gabriel said, not believing his eyes. This didn’t look like the man he saw when Cassandra left her old home to come here. "You don’t look the same."

Phillip carefully approached Gabriel with his hands behind his back, hiding the holy weapon which was used to kill the men who blocked his path downstairs. "You’re confused because you are bleeding."

"I-"

"Hush," Phillip shushed Gabriel. "You’ll only make that wound worse. She acted without command and attacked you. She will be punished for it. Let her go so we can talk about this."

Gabriel kept his hold on Cassandra. He didn’t know what was happening, but if this was the man who raised Cassandra, he was smart enough to know to use her as a shield.

"You need to get out of my home. All of you," Gabriel said as others wearing the same uniform showed up.

Gabriel was nervous when he heard the servants screaming and knew from their cries that they were being slaughtered by these intruders.

Who were these men and what did they want?

Who was Cassandra for her to be raised by these men?

"I’ll snap her neck if you come close," said Gabriel.

Phillip continued to walk toward the couple. "Do it. It would be a fitting punishment for what she did."

Cassandra couldn’t believe her ears that Phillip would allow a vampire to kill her. That went against everything they stood for.

Cassandra knew she had done wrong, but it wasn’t like the church was innocent. They tossed her into this marriage and lied to her about the holy water. They didn’t have a right to call out what she did wrong.

"Go on," Phillip urged Gabriel to do it. He knew Gabriel couldn’t do it, but if he did, so be it.

Cassandra deserved to be punished. There wasn’t a need for the church to show itself so early, but she just had to be impatient and harm Gabriel.

Gabriel stepped back, pulling Cassandra along with him. "I’m the hero who stopped the war."

"Then you shouldn’t struggle to kill her. I told you to not talk Now look at you. Your shirt is covered with your blood. Had that been a holy weapon, you would have been dead. If you’re going to kill her, get it over with," Phillip instructed Gabriel.

They didn’t have much time left to be there since all the screams should attract someone.

"Father," Cassandra cried out. She knew Gabriel would kill her if poked too much.

"Don’t cry now, Cassandra. When you start a fight, you must be prepared for death should you mess up, and that is what you did. You lost sight of your faith," Phillip said.

If Cassandra survived this, the church was going to work hard to get her back to acting as she should. It was what they did with everyone else who lost their faith and needed to find it.

"I haven’t!" Cassandra argued. She did what she did tonight because she believed in everything the church wanted.

"Shut up," Gabriel covered Cassandra’s mouth. "Get out of my home."

"I thought you were going to kill her. If you aren’t, release her so we can talk. I am not going to kill you tonight, Gabriel. I planned so much to make you into the little hero that you are just to kill you," said Phillip.

Gabriel laughed. No one had made him a hero. He did that by himself.

Hearing this, Gabriel believed the man before him had lost his mind just like Cassandra had lost her mind.

"We cannot stay long," one of the priests informed Phillip.

"No, we can’t," Phillip agreed.

Phillip threw a normal knife for Gabriel to dodge and moved fast to follow it up by attacking Gabriel with the holy weapon. He aimed for Gabriel’s chest.

An agonizing scream filled the home.

Gabriel was more focused on the burning sensation building up in his chest than the stranger. He thought the intruders were human, but Phillip moved fast. Gabriel blinked and Phillip was before him.

Cassandra fell with Gabriel but was released when he hit the floor.

Phillip pulled the weapon out of Gabriel’s chest before it could kill him. "It didn’t need to come to this. That won’t heal for you."

"Just kill him. He’s already seen too much," Cassandra said, puzzled as to why they would want to keep Gabriel alive.

Gabriel would let others know they had a holy weapon.

Phillip wiped Gabriel’s blood off the weapon. It always pleased him to see vampire blood.

He was quite close to kicking Cassandra so she would be silent. Fortunately, a good punishment awaited her.

Phillip kept his attention on Gabriel for now. "I made you what you are. You were the perfect fool to use. I killed your enemies and left you to clean up the weaker ones. Thus, you were seen as the hero."

Phillip lowered himself to be more at Gabriel’s level. "I want you to go to the palace and tell your king a change is coming. A change he cannot avoid. While you are at it, tell him the woman you brought home has been an enemy all along."

Phillip pointed the blade at Gabriel. "Don’t disappoint me."