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

she had taken every atom of life

his soul had made him feel empty before, it was nothing compared to

endure

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counted on the suffering. The constant, grueling in that came with glancing argund and

hadn't expected the endless searching. Always looking for

it felt as if his own hear had been ripped out and handed back to him. Broken,

creeping in, Vladya was

counted on missing her as much as

counted on

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

her elegantly styled hair and simple yet exquisite

gown.

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She was breathtakingly beautiful.

And, she was real.

his numerous illusions and dreams. Those torturous ones he'd had wishing for

Yes, this is real.

than she had in any of

rusty from disuse, "Do you wish to

unshed tears, searched his face. Vladya wondered

she see a

up grand lord hiding away in

one who broke her

Probably all three.

"Okay," she whispered.

into the cave, to the heart of

world was

a small cushion. "Do you want

surprised as she scanned the room.

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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. Something to

mad," she finished for him,

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

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