Chapter 58 - Dangerously Smitten

Belladonna gasped silently.

She had never seen anything like that in her life before, oh wait, except for that stone in the Forbidden Room but still, this was different.

"I am alright now." The King's whisper snapped her out of her train of thoughts and she blinked.

"What was that?" She asked, her voice a little breathy from the shocked state she was still in.

"Nothing important," the King replied with his casual dismissiveness and she frowned.

Not again.

"Your blood..." Her voice trailed off as she tried to look for the right words. "It withered my lily. Like it was some sought of poison---"

"It's my sickness." He finally let out with a grunt but she wasn't done. There had to be more to it.

"Your hand." She looked down at his hand again but he was no longer bleeding and the contaminated water had now washed away, along with her lily, leaving now in it's place, clean rushing water. "It was bleeding. Why?"

"It does that every once in a while." Then he chuckled, his eyes twink