Chapter 237

Touch, his beast urged.

No, I will not.

"Wake up, darling," Daemonikai coaxed gently.

"I don't want to." she protested, a dreamy smile on her lips.

Her hands drifted over her body, cupping her breasts, she flicked her nipples. She let out a soft whine.

A bolt of desire shot straight to his dick, his arousal back with a vengeance.

"Gods of the Grail," he swore.

"I really like this dream a lot," she cried with bliss, pinching her engorged nipples.

Daemonikai closed his eyes and counted to ten. Then, counted backward from ten.

Nope, his hard-on has declared a coup, raging full mast in his pants.

His beast, too, was one hundred percent on board...all too aware of her.

Emeriel took his hand, parting her thigh, she guided it between her open legs.

"Touch me, please," she murmured, rolling her hips desperately. "I've been hungry... so starved for you."

"Darling, you don't know—"

"I need you."

Younglings crying for food, an elder falling from a horse, another bloody war with the vamps.

The images didn't work. His restraint was slipping with each passing second, her dreamlike touches tugging him further under her spell.

to wake up,"

drew closer. "Come here," Leaning in, she kissed

as he deepened it. Tongue sliding desperately against hers, his

all the hunger he'd kept buried for so long. One that grew since the very moment he'd opened his eyes on his deathbed and saw her lying naked beside him. From that moment, he'd wanted to hold her down and devour her. Climbing fully onto the bed, he moved her backward until her back pressed against the headboard. The kiss turned ravenous, wild, as he let the beast inside him out to play. Not his literal beast, of course, but the one aching and straining in his pants. She clutched at his robes, her lips as hungry as his. Sweet, breathless little moans spilled

reached for her garment. Need to feel more. Need to lay her down

wrenched her lips away from his. "This

could pretend it's one." He reached for

drew back, horror replaced lust, and she scrambled off the bed as though the sheets had caught fire. "No," shaking her head violently, she retreated several steps before stopping. "No, we can't. We can't."

at him, hunger clawed all over him, demanding to be sated. But that panic

extended a

her head again, she took another

then, she turned and fled. Her footsteps echoed as she disappeared through

follow.

there, motionless, something heavy settling in his chest.

ever seen true fear in her eyes, and it was because of their passion. She wanted him as much as he did her; he had seen it, felt it. But it scared the living daylight out of her. Something was truly broken between

don't know how to fix

...........

PRINCESS EMERIEL

avoided him like

next two days, she kept herself far from anywhere her beloved might look for

hadn't been to the gardens, her Frostfall bedchambers, and even her quarters in Blackstone. Instead, she busied herself

hunted game and delivered the meat to the homes of the sick, picked herbs, and made medicinal poultices. Trained

grounds, spent

Aekeira's chambers in Blackstone.

Bekka some food, she returned

but could also feel

needed tending, and it had bothered her all day. "The workers are taking care of

it was no

do than lie in bed and torment herself with memories of

a sigh, she detoured into

The world fell away, and the quiet rustle of leaves and the familiar scents soothed

was so lost in her routine she sensed the disturbance too

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