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Chapter 53

EMERIEL

Emeriel awoke in Aekeira's chambers, his sister hovering over him.

"She's awake, Amie!" Aekeira's voice echoed throughout the room. "Please go and fetch Madam Livia."

The ruffle of movements followed.

Emeriel's head throbbed with a headache, and his mouth tasted bitter from the herbs likely forced down his throat.

He attempted to sit up but winced as his body protested. "What happened?" he groaned.

"You had another mini-heat yesterday and somehow ventured to the forbidden chambers on your own," Aekeira's voice trembled with a mix of dread and disbelief. "When Amie told me, I could hardly believe it. By the gods, Em! Going into the forbidden chambers willingly and alone!?"

Memories flooded back to Emeriel. Aekeira was right-what had possessed him?

"I don't know, Keira," he admitted.

"But... but... I simply don't understand." Aekeira started to pace, visibly agitated. "There are plenty of Urekai males around. The guards would have gladly locked you up in a room and tended to your needs until the heat subsided. You could have easily gone to any of them. So why did you choose that beast? Why?"

"I really don't know. My body made the decision for me," Emerie confessed, resigned.

Aekeira stopped abruptly. "What?"

Emeriel exhaled loudly. It was one thing to acknowledge the truth within himself, and another to voice it aloud.

He hesitated.

you after the night you've had." She moved

by a carriage. Every part of

She mentioned it would be more effective in alleviating the pain." "Okay." Emeriel surrendered to his body's exhaustion and lay

the hallway." A note of awe and wonder entered Aekeira's voice. The beast

didn't harm you. It didn't make any deliberate

off into the distance, falling silent

couldn't control myself, Keira," he finally whispered aloud. "As soon as the heat started, all I could think about was him, In 16:53 Sat,

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mine. And when the heat intensifies, it becomes overwhelming, making it hard to think clearly,

maintain control."

own, Keira. I couldn't wait to be with him. To feel him inside me. All I could think about was presenting

I belong to that beast, Keira. I am his

her voice filled with vehement denial. No way. Do not let such a

Fate would never be so cruel. Don't

Emeriel's

for one fills me with dread. I want no part of this." He swallowed hard and looked away. "But it would be foolish to ignore it just

refuse to believe it." Aekeira grasped Emeriel's hands firmly in hers, shaking her head with determination. "There must be another explanation. Perhaps your body craves more of him because he is the only one you've been intimate with That

"Not yet, Emeriel interrupted.

on

knew how ridiculous that sounded. How crazy. He had thought so too, when he found out during

has mounted you twice, Aekeira added, trying to

does to sate a

take more time, and be much more painful. However, in the end, the body repairs itself back to the way it was before heat. The beast has mounted me twice

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