Chapter 227

That Prince Is A Girl: The Vicious King's Captive Slave Mate Chapter 227

The Soulbond had torn him to pieces.

But if it had been that excruciating for him, Daemonikai shuddered to think how much worse it must have been for Emeriel.

She had carried the bond longer, nurtured it more deeply.

"Are you alright?" Her voice brought him back to the present. She was standing in front of him, her expression cool but her eyes searching. No. No, I'm not, Emeriel.

She was stronger than he'd ever given her credit for. Far stronger than her delicate frame suggested. Not just physically, but in every other way.

She had walked through fire, and it had changed her. Hardened her. It was evident in every aspect of her being - the way she moved, spoke, and looked. The guarded expression in her eyes. Will she ever forgive me? Will she ever give us a chance?

Daemonikai let the bow and arrow slip from his grasp, clattering to the ground, and in one fast move, seized her shoulders and spun her around.

Moving with lightning speed, he pressed her against the rough bark of a nearby tree.

"What are you doing!?" Emeriel gasped, startled.

"I need you to listen to me, Emeriel," Daemonikai said quietly.

"No, don't." Fire blazed in her eyes, and her fists clenched against his hold. "Do not!"

"I need to-"

"Let me go! I do not want to hear it." Desperation seeped into her voice, her tone rising...frantic.

don't want

"But I have to."

to struggle, fighting him with a fierceness that surprised

him, snarling at him, scratching anywhere she

Or how

to her sides, his

back against the tree

eyes were squeezed shut, as if trying to block him out. "Just let

words tumbling out with raw emotion. "From the depths of my heart and the bottom of my soul, I am so sorry. I should have never sent you away. I should have handled it all better." Only the sounds

broke your heart, and it haunts me," he told her, apologetic. "I regret sending you away. Words are feeble, and I'm not good

choice in anything, and you sought to give me one. I guess

to squeeze his eyes shut. His own words repeated back to him. And

owned your heart and soul as long as you drew breath. So yes, I should

were going to tear my heart out,

could have done was give me a warning." Her body began to tremble, each

misery. You would think when the bond went to sleep a years ago, it would end, wouldn't you? But no, the wounds kept spreading until every part of me was raw

"I am sorry. I didn't think it through at that moment. I thought setting you free was the best decision. I was hurting, Emeriel.

hurts the most, you know." Her lips trembled with

aggrieved man beneath it all. A male whose world came crashing

"I only wish it helped with the pain." When her head made impact again,

she did it again, and again, as if trying to numb the pain inside by

my grave," she whispered, not missing a

of me to crawl out of my grave. I had to lose something so

her eyes, only resignation. Acceptance. And that

dry eyes and detached tone struck him

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