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Chapter 48

GRAND LORD VLADYA

Grand Lord Vladya gazed out into the night, his arms crossed as he stood at the center of the tower of Blackwood. His mind wandered far from his present location.

His mood remained as dark as ever, though he refused to analyze the reasons behind it.

Frankly, his moods had rarely been sunshine in the past few hundred years, so he believed there was no specific cause.

It absolutely had nothing to do with what transpired two nights ago.

He had lost control of himself. When he recalled half of the things he had said, it made him grimace.

Vladya refused to believe that the person who had raged because the human princess undressed for Zaiper was him.

So what if the girl was attracted to the second ruler? It should mean nothing to him. He didn't even like the girl, so what the hell was that?

The fact that she had captured the attention of every male in court, their eyes greedily taking in her naked form, shouldn't have upset him so much.

As he battled the need not to unleash on her, he had almost succumbed to a beastflare.

He snorted at that thought. Accidental shifting was for young Urekai coming of age, not for an ancient like him. He was three thousand eight hundred years old, for Ukrac's sake.

So why in the fires of hell did it almost happen? He had fought against the shift...and had nearly lost. Anger flared

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inside him. Ackeira. It was all because of her.

What was it about the little human that made him lose control?

One would think that after making her pay for daring to invade his mind, he would feel a sense of

and the moon was unusually barely a quarter, But whenever a quarter moon appeared more frequently, it could only mean one thing-the Eclipse Moon night was near. And, on that

if a hand had reached

Vladya. You're running out of time to make peace with it. It's time

approached from behind and halted near hitn. My lord, I have gathered information about the

spun around. "Who

it upon himself to feed the beast. However, yesterday, he was not

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the boy. Perhaps a soldier or Urekai maid, but never the human prince who had every

"Are you sure?"

Yes, your highness."

once again, his thoughts whirled. Was there some sort of connection between the beast and that boy, that he was

so brave as to bring his hand close to

night when the beast had singled the boy out

brought his mind back to

light of day, he had stared at the girl's unconscious form, as prickle of conscience

work or punishments for poor performance, or disobedience. But he was not the kind to

that was the problem, wasn't

could have anyone, but in the

he had desired no one but

with her, and every ugly part of him that he had hidden came out, rearing their

his lust and rid himself of

a human was

kill a human than allow them to have that

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of the night, feeling feverish and

quivered with tremors, and painful cramps clenched her

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