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.

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

Aekeira left Urai, she had taken every

made him feel empty before, it was nothing compared to

he could endure

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suffering. The constant, grueling in that came with glancing argund and never

Always looking for her in a room she no longer

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

with the madness creeping in,

missing her as

on

This wasn't the slave he had known. This was the princess he

From her elegantly styled hair and simple

gown.

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She was breathtakingly beautiful.

And, she was real.

this might be just another one of his numerous illusions and dreams. Those torturous

Yes, this is real.

sounded far better than she had in

his throat, the sound rusty from disuse,

still wet with unshed tears, searched his face. Vladya

she see

up grand lord hiding away in

who broke

Probably all three.

"Okay," she whispered.

the cave, to the heart

had no meaning. The outside world was distant, exactly as Vladya

he gestured to a small cushion.

surprised as she scanned the room. "This is not what I

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expected to see an empty place, perhaps littered with skulls and dried blood of 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.

mad," she

and busied himself with brewing the tea. "Madness is not something to fear. It can be fought, the symptoms slowed

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