That Prince Is A Girl The Vicious King's Captive Slave Mate by Kiss Leilani

Captive Slave 184

Chapter 184

Chapter 184

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Daemonikai's eyes snapped up, locking onto hers. Eyes that had been asleep mere seconds ago were now blearily open. She rubbed them to shake off the remnants of sleep.

He had to leave before the pull of this bond dragged him into a storm he was not ready to face.

"Go back to sleep." Daemonikai said crisply, turning toward the door.

"Wait, please."

He heard a shuffle and his jaw locked tight. He couldn't do this. Not now. Not like this.

"Stay over there," Daemonikai snapped. "Do not come close to me."

A sharp intake of breath came behind him, and though he did not want to-gods, he did NOT want to-Daemonikai turned to look at her.

Hurt flashed in her eyes, before she quickly masked it, swallowing tightly.

"As you wish, I would not..." her voice wavered, her hands fluttered helplessly before falling to her sides again. "I will not come closer. But please, do not leave." "Why?"

"Just...." She looked so small, even smaller than he remembered. So fragile, lost, and achingly vulnerable that every instinct within him screamed, protect.

Daemonikai slammed the doors

something," she pleaded, her swollen eyes

repeated, his voice sharper,

the silence." Misery rolled off her in waves. "Anything at all. Hit me, sh-shout at me, use the s-sp- spiked whip, lock me away in the Hole, anything. Just react. Say something. I

cutting deeper than any royal dagger could. The last of

Soulbond, yet there was a small part of him clinging to denial. It's not true. They must be joking It's unbelievable. There's no way Ukrae and the fates would do this to me. Evie had

had tuned into her moods, craved her scent, how she soothed him with just her presence and the sound of her voice. His beast had called her mine more times than he could count. If that hadn't been

not go into rut for anyone before sex, not even his own bondmate, had taken one whiff of her scent in heat and was immediately hit with

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need to tear apart anyone who dared harm her, who had hurt her

girl, standing before him with

rose in his throat, but Daemonikai gulped

away. Lord Vladya made me swear I would, and I did try with everything in me. But when you stepped into Lord-Herod's home that morning, stopping right in front of me, I knew I was in trouble." Emeriel's shoulders slumped, eyes dropping to the floor. "This...

"So you thought lying to me, coming to me

name, it's not

you answer to,

understand. "He thought after the pleasantries, we would not have any other exchanges." Daemonikai thought of that day. He had asked her to walk with him, and she had shown

to its demands,

could ask, but instead he blurted out.

by surprise, like

taken your heat." Daemonikai's voice was low, strained. "If the bond had not drawn me to you that night, you would have given your heat to him. The whole time, I was ridden with guilt-guilt that I was stealing my high lord's woman simply because I could, abusing my power and strength. And all this time, Herodis was the one stealing

It's true I begged him to-to take my heat, but only because I did not want to bear the pain. Those waves of agony. I knew I could not have

it spilled out in hurried, jagged breaths. The sincerity in those blue eyes pierced through the fog of Daemonikai's anger. His beast, attuned