All Chapters of Forbidden Lessons : Chapter 91 - Chapter 100

92Ian’s POVI stood at the doorway of Sophia’s room, staring at her like some sort of fool. I wasn’t sure why I was so nervous. I was Ian — king of the vampire realm, ruler of vampire. The most powerful and most dangerous. Yet, in this moment, watching Sophia pack her things, I felt completely out of place.Maybe it was because I was about to take her to the vampire realm. Maybe it was because I didn’t want to take her there. Or maybe it was because Sophia, despite her the fact that she was now one of us, still seemed so… human.“Are you going to keep standing there like a creep or actually come in and help me?” Her voice snapped me out of my thoughts. She had that look in her eye, the one where she was trying to hold back a laugh but also wasn’t quite sure if I was okay. It’s a look that she had been giving me these days.“Help you?” I raised an eyebrow, leaning against the doorframe. “I thought vampires were supposed to be independent creatures.”“Yeah, well, I’m new at this. Give

94Ian’s POVAs soon as I stepped into the council chamber, the tension crackling in the room hit me like a wave. The council’s eyes, cold and scrutinizing, locked onto me and Sophia the moment we entered. Even as the king of the vampires, I could feel their displeasure about everything. They respected my authority, but they weren’t afraid to challenge it.Sophia walked beside me, stiff and nervous. She was trying to hide it, but I could see the way her fingers twitched, the way she bit the inside of her cheek. Even though she was doing her best to stand tall, I could see right through her and I started to regret ever bringing her here in the first place.I had decided to bring her here after she had insisted that she wanted to meet them, and despite my power, they would test her. Push her. They would see how far she could bend before breaking.“Are you sure about this?” she whispered, glancing up at me. I wanted to remind her that she was the one who wanted to come here, to meet them

96Ian’s POV I woke up to the sharp sting of unease prickling at the edges of my mind. The sun had barely risen, casting a faint glow across the room, but something felt wrong. Very wrong.Without thinking, I threw off the covers and moved swiftly through the halls, my instincts guiding me. My mind raced, replaying the events of last night. Sophia had insisted on sleeping in her own room. She wanted some space to process everything that had happened recently. I’d respected her wishes, giving her the distance she needed, but now… something was pulling me toward her.“Trust me, if she was dead, you’d know,” Lyanna had once said one night when I was worrying about Sophia. Was it because of the bond I had formed when I marked her? Was it that bond that made me feel like something was wrong?As I approached her room, the metallic scent of blood hit me like a freight train. My stomach lurched, and I froze, the scent triggering every alarm in my body. My feet moved faster, panic rising in m

98Sophia’s POVI stepped through the portal with Ian at my side, the strange, electric hum of vampire magic fading behind us as we entered the human realm again. Everything was just as it had been before, but I wasn’t. The air felt different, like it wasn’t quite enough for my lungs anymore, but I breathed it in anyway, letting the familiar scent of the forest wrap around me. It was weird that we entered the realm through a stone, and we were stepping out of it through a blanket. It was good to be back, even if the weight of everything that had happened in the vampire realm still clung to me like a shadow I couldn’t shake.Ian glanced at me, his eyes softening. “You okay?”I nodded, but the truth was, I wasn’t sure how to feel. There was too much going on in my mind. I remembered Freya’s death all over again, the council’s eyes always watching and judging, the fact that someone had gotten into my room and had successfully tried to kill me.“Yeah,” I murmured, giving him a tight smile

100Ian’s POVLyanna was sitting across from me, her expression calm, but there was something in her eyes that made me uneasy. She had come to meet me here in the realm, and had asked for this meeting, insisting it was urgent, though she’d been vague on the details. That was unlike her. Usually, Lyanna was direct, straightforward. This… hesitance? It wasn’t normal.“What is it?” I asked, leaning forward. The firelight from the hearth added a shadowy glow to the surroundings. The castle in the vampire realm was always cold, but tonight, it felt colder. Or maybe that was just me.Lyanna glanced at me, her eyes narrowing slightly. “It’s about Sophia.”I tensed immediately, my hands clenching into fists. The protectiveness I felt over Sophia came over me in full force. She was my mate, my love, the one I’d killed for, and I’d do it again without hesitation. “What about her?”Lyanna sighed, resting her hands in her lap, her fingers tracing the patterns of her robe absentmindedly. “I’ve bee