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.

past few years. Or at least, he felt that

had taken every atom of life in

it was nothing compared to the void her

thought he could endure it. He had been so

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the suffering. The constant, grueling in that

for her in

if his own hear had been ripped out and

with the madness creeping

counted on missing her

counted on

This wasn't the slave he had known.

looked every bit the part. From her elegantly styled hair and simple

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 wishing

Yes, this is real.

better than she had in

he cleared his throat, the sound rusty from disuse, "Do you wish to go further, to my

wet with unshed tears, searched his face. Vladya wondered

she see a half-mad

washed up grand lord

who

Probably all three.

"Okay," she whispered.

led her deeper into the cave, to the

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

to a small cushion. "Do you want

around the space, clearly surprised as she scanned

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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 mad," she finished for

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

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