More blood came out of Belle's mouth, even a handkerchief didn't suffice as the cough wrecked her chest. It was a searing pain which almost tore her apart, far worse than anything she had ever felt in her life. Corruption of the heart was not easy for vampires. When the smoke had got out from Portia's body into her body, she hadn't realized it, not even when the pain had started.
She knew what the smoke was. Belle had seen the same smoke that had tried to enter the little boy's body. Lord Nicholas' body, yet her mind had been slow because she had believed the words of the first cards of the Grims.
"What's going on?" asked Greed who had returned after knocking the other death reapers down.
Barron turned his head around to say, "Belle's heart is corrupting." Belle's face was turning where veins started to pop up on her face, like little roots of a tree that started from the bridge of her nose.
