Chapter 329

Chapter 329

For a long while, he simply stayed there, forehead resting lightly against hers.

Slowly, her breathing evened. The rigidness in her limbs cased. The fingers grabbing the sheets loosened.

When she finally opened her eyes, he was met with deep blue eyes wet with unshed tears.

A dagger slashed his chest. His beast made a broken sound and retreated, and his hunger… dulled.

“I am ready,” she breathed.

“Let’s not-”

“Please, let’s try…”

Daemonikai searched her eyes. What he saw there broke his damn heart.

Still he gave into her, capturing her lips in a kiss.

It was gentle. Soft. Patient.

After a moment, she kissed him back, hands tentatively sliding up his arms. A quiet, needy sound left her.

Only then did he move again. He began to push inside her, inch by inch.

Her heat enveloped his cock, welcoming him. Soft. Yielding. Molding against him in ways that sent pleasure curling up his spine.

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But then, she wrenched her mouth from his, and started to thrash. Shoving at his shoulders, striking blindly, fingers clawing at his skin.

“Stop, stop! No, no, please-!” She fought as her cries rose in raw panic.

Daemonikai jerked away at once.

Free, she bolted. Scrambling across the bed so quickly she lost her footing and tumbled off the edge with a thud. But even as she hit the ground, she did not stop.

She kept crawling, scrambling backward on hands and knees until her back met the far wall. Then, she pressed herself into the corner as though she could disappear into the stone.

knees came up to her chest and she wrapped her arms around them in a tight grip. “Please stop hurting me,

words came in a repeat like a broken litany as

inside

female ran from him in the worst way one

her rock back and forth, press herself further against the wall to get away

he had stood before her bed, gazed at her wounds and saw the damage he caused. Never did he

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every part of her body, detailed only a fraction of her suffering…and even

part of her mind, which had finally trusted him as her protector–the part he battered the night he became an abuser–did not.

she still whispered, even in her deep fear that

describe how he

to the bed’s edge and buried his

had pulled him under. How does

hesitant hand touched him.

fingers threaded softly through his hair.

his head.

with remorse. “What have I done? The seven gods… Please forgive me,

done? Forgive you?” Emeriel Galilea Evenstone, how is any of

for us to

her waist, drawing her closer, and pressed his face against her belly. “I am the one who will forever beg for your forgiveness. Perhaps I should relinquish my throne, head for the Dark Woods, and join the ferals there. Pretending to be alright when one is anything

do such a thing,” she whispered. “If I am

“Riel…”

Her fingers ran through his hair in a soothing caress.

It has been three years. Three years, and not once did I see

it much thought,”

again and again in my mind, but there is nothing. One moment, I was instructing the new recruits, and the next,

was starting to

magic is potent,” he adjusted his hold on her as she swayed. “I have searched through every known magical text of our people, and not one of them speaks

hummed, voice growing heavier. “So… if it were dark magic,

expression dark. “It would have required a hefty ritual, perhaps

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fluttered as she nodded

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