Chapter 285

Chapter 285

THE LAST CHAPTER OF PART 3

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GRAND LORD VLADYA

He and Grand Lord Ottai sat by the door until the early hours of dawn.

Emeriel's voice had long since failed her.

Reduced to raw, broken whispers of suffering. The girl was utterly spent.

Occasionally, a tired sob would slip from her lips, but otherwise, the air was deathly quiet, though they both knew the beast within was still active.

At one point during the night, Ottai had soaked his robes with tears.

His shoulders trembled as he listened to the horrors taking place beyond the thick wooden door.

Yet neither of them had moved, their promise holding them captive in that same position. Waiting. Hoping.

Because Vladya was fully attuned to the room beyond, he caught it first. The faint, almost undetectable sound of fangs piercing flesh.

His body snapped upright, every muscle coiled and alert.

"What's going on?" Ottai croaked, jerking awake from the shallow sleep that had finally claimed him.

"It's coming to an end." Vladya told him. “He is finally drinking from her."

Ottai's tipped ears flared, his senses sharpening as he, too, tuned in.

Vladya heard the stuttered rhythm of the beast's strokes. Low, muffled growls in the air as Daemonikai reached his peak.

But the drinking continued, dragging on as seconds turned into agonizing minutes.

Ottai rose to his feet. "We have to go in there. He will drain her completely."

But Vladya pressed a firm hand to Ottai's knee. "Not until she uses the safe word. We vowed."

"I know we did," he snapped, his teeth grinding audibly. "We have listened to her suffer through the entire night because of that damned promise! But Vlad, the girl is exhausted. What if she can't say it? What if she's too weak? Or she doesn't remember it? What if-"

"K-Keira..."

The soft, weak cry silenced them.

Vladya and Ottai sprang to their feet at the same time, rushing for the door handle, but Vladya got it first. Holding it in a death grip, he threw open the door, with a force that rattled the hinges.

The scene that greeted them was something out of a nightmare.

beast form, hovering over Emeriel at

room.

scent of

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once-immaculate bed was soaked in blood. The

everywhere he'd dragged her, taken her, ravaged

his feeding, head whipping around, bloody

act of drinking ceased, the last of its strength

the floor beside

moved, since they entered.

sorrowfully,

not to

floor, he stared at the beast now satisfied and

chance," he murmured, his

from the girl, Ottai glanced at the unconscious beast. "What

in beast form," Vladya replied grimly. "And we don't know when-or if- whatever's happening

his

them shifted into their beast forms and carried Daemon out of the blood-soaked room into

of Blackstone.

of life. No servants moved

the entire citadel

Maybe they were.

over again, when the court

long. When they finally arrived, they sealed the beast inside, shutting the massive oak doors and metal

stationed there and returned to Blackstone, heading straight back to Aekeira's bedchamber where

lay exactly as they had

into,

take her," Vladya told Ottai who nodded,

low, Vladya lifted Emeriel into his arms. She felt so light, so small,

Too late.

his gaze ahead, cradling her

the chamber out to the hallway, bringing her to one of

with a few human slaves and Urekai maids. Her face was composed, but those swollen, red-rimmed eyes

cried.

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human girl began to sob openly at

said sternly, though her own voice trembled. "Get the

scrambled

"start preparing

more commands, Vladya laid the unconscious girl on the

while Ottai remained outside.

he allowed himself to take a

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