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

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

he deepened it. Tongue sliding desperately against hers,

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.

kiss, he reached for her garment. Need to feel more. Need to lay

from his. "This isn't

pretend it's one." He reached for

as though the sheets had caught fire. "No," shaking her head violently, she retreated several steps before

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

he extended a

again, she took another

fled. Her footsteps

didn't follow.

there, motionless, something heavy settling in

the first time he'd 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

know

...........

PRINCESS EMERIEL

him

she kept herself far from anywhere her beloved might look for

Frostfall bedchambers, and even her quarters in Blackstone. Instead, she

the meat to the homes of the sick, picked herbs, and made medicinal poultices. Trained hard

spent

Aekeira's chambers in Blackstone.

giving her youngling friend Bekka some food, she returned to the fortress gates, exhaustion settling

good, but could also feel stifling

garden pathways, she paused. Her plants needed tending, and it had bothered her all day. "The workers are taking care of it," she muttered

it was no

else was there to do than lie in bed and torment herself with memories of

a sigh, she

up a watering can and set to work. The world fell away, and the quiet rustle

lost in her routine she

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