Captive Slave 209

Chapter 209

PRINCESS AEKEIRA

He recognized me.

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Relief crashed into Aekeira. Tears burned her eyes. "Who e-else would it be?" she choked out.

She felt the brush of his nose against her neck, and tilted her head to the side, giving him better access.

A long, slow inhale.

"This feels like a dream," he growled.

"It's not. I'm here, in Urai." Unable to hold back any longer, she spun around, and threw her arms around his neck, pulling him close. "I'm here."

He stilled.

Then, he was hugging her back. His arms encircling her waist, crushing her to him. One was a hand, the other a large, furred paw with sharp, elongated claws.

Aekeira didn't flinch. She didn't care. All that mattered was that he was here...and he remembered her.

"Aekeira..." He breathed.

She had never heard so many emotions wrapped into a single word.

"My Aekeira."

That sob tore from her throat.

She clung to him tighter, burying her face in his neck. His scent, clean and familiar, filled her senses.

And for the first time in years, she felt relaxed. Grounded.

Finally, after what felt like eternity, she pulled back, sniffling. "How did you recognize me?"

Grand Lord Vladya gently wiped the tears from Aekeira's face with his good hand, drinking her in. Greedily devouring the sight of her.

Every emotion, both familiar, long-buried, and unfamiliar, swamped him.

been dead these past few years. Or at least, he felt that

Aekeira left Urai, she had taken every atom of

feel empty before, it was

endure it. He had been so

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grueling in that

the endless searching. Always looking for her in a room

days bled into weeks and months, it felt as if his own hear had been ripped out and handed back to

madness creeping in, Vladya was

counted on missing her

hadn't counted on so many

over her. This wasn't the slave he had known. This was

elegantly styled hair

gown.

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She was breathtakingly beautiful.

And, she was real.

be just another one of his numerous illusions and dreams. Those torturous ones he'd had

Yes, this is real.

had

sound rusty from disuse, "Do you wish

wet with unshed tears, searched his face. Vladya wondered

see a

grand lord

one who broke her

Probably all three.

"Okay," she whispered.

deeper into the cave, to the heart of his

world was distant,

here," he gestured to a small cushion. "Do you want

as she scanned the room.

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his victims, not this warm, cozy, home. "As one waits for the inevitable, let's just say, one has a lot of time on their hands. I go scavenging sometimes. Something to

go mad," she finished for

not something to fear. It can be fought, the symptoms slowed down, but in the end, it cannot

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