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

seething. A night spent in the dungeon, all because of that malnourished whore. She

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

and slipped into the warm

in the same cell only one of them would have walked

Evielyn's from the start. Even after her death,

Her Daemon wanted her

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Her Daemon was hers.

as much when she fled Urai, tail tucked

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PRINCESS AEKEIRA

pushed open Emeriel's door, the hinges creaking in

shadows, the only light filtering in from the window. Emeriel lay beneath the covers, motionless

you asleep?" Aekeira's voice was

into the room anyway. "I know you are not, Em," she sat on the edge of the bed. "You have

Still, no response.

in Merabis. Three of them:

Still, no response.

know why they're here, Em. I understand." Aekeira's gaze fixed on the wall ahead." But I also

even a shift

Emeriel. Beneath all this resolve created by pain, is an

smile touched Aekeira's lips. "It warms my

wish to hear it," Emeriel's voice finally came, barely

hasn't been to court in over a year. He spends every waking moment lost in

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