Captive Slave 204

Chapter 204

Chapter 204

No suitor had dared before. Emeriel would have deflected with well-placed shove, a swift punch or a biting retort. But tonight, she felt raw, her defenses frayed. The kiss was agony.

It was like a thousand tiny needles pricking her skin from every angle, her stomach churning with nausea.

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Memories of another's lips, another's touch, flooded her. King Daemonikai's deep kisses, the feel of his tongue against hers. The recall assaulted Emeriel's whole being. Longing rose, clawing its way up from the pit of her stomach...

No, no, no.

She tore her lips from his, stumbling back so fast she lost her footing, and fell hard onto the ground.

"Are you alright?" Daviel reached for her, but she scrambled to her feet, moving backward to put as much distance between them as she could.

"I'm fine," she gasped, dusting off her garments with trembling hands, trying to keep the despair rising inside her at bay. "Let's call it a night, Prince Daviel." ""But, Emeriel-"

"Good night."

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She turned and walked away. With each step, the despair crawled closer until it caught up with her, and washed over her entirely.

MISTRESS SINAI

stormed into her quarters, seething. A night spent in the dungeon, all because of that malnourished

ready, mistress," one of them stammered, barely able

garments and slipped into the warm bath. But even the soothing heat

in the same cell only one of them would have

of your master, yet unwanted by him. Two millennia together, and he never chose you. He was Queen Evielyn's from the start. Even after her death, he does not look at you. And now? Now, he belongs solely to Emeriel." Sinai clenched her

Her Daemon wanted her

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Chapter 204

Her Daemon was hers.

admitted as much when she fled Urai,

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PRINCESS AEKEIRA

door, the hinges creaking

from the window. Emeriel lay beneath the covers,

Aekeira's voice

you are not, Em," she sat on the edge of the bed.

Still, no response.

in Merabis. Three of them: Lord

Still, no response.

they're here, Em. I understand." Aekeira's gaze fixed on the wall ahead." But I also know you. And I know, deep down, you will regret this in the near future if they

even a shift in

tone lowered, taking on a pleading edge. "But I know you, Emeriel. Beneath all this resolve created by pain, is an Em who still cares. An Em whose world still revolves around her grand king. He is not alright,

years? A male who would have succumbed three years ago?" A wistful smile touched Aekeira's lips. "It

to hear it," Emeriel's voice

over a year. He spends every waking moment lost in his mind.

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