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.

to her chest and she wrapped her arms around them in a tight grip. “Please stop hurting me, I’m really sorry…!

words came in a repeat like a broken litany as

died inside

from him

forth, press herself further against the wall to get

stood before her bed, gazed at her wounds and saw the damage he caused. Never did he think not

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covered every part of her body, detailed only a fraction of her suffering…and even those had faded. But the ones inside were concealed. The scar on her soul,

part of her mind, which had finally trusted him as her protector–the part

so sorry, I’m so sorry,” she still whispered, even in her deep fear that

to describe how he felt. He

his pants, slid to the bed’s edge and buried

had pulled him under. How does one drown on dry land? Yet he had sunk. Deeply submerged. The way he struggled to draw breath proved

hand touched him.

threaded softly through his hair.

lifted his

pumped with remorse. “What have

done? Forgive you?” Emeriel Galilea Evenstone, how is any of this your fault?” he growled, self-

for us to try, then-”

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 not permitted to

“Riel…”

in a

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

it much thought,” she

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

unnatural…” her words was starting to slur. “Perhaps dark

hold on her as she swayed. “I have searched through every known magical text of our people, and not one of

“So… if it were dark magic, it

up at her, expression dark. “It would have required a hefty ritual, perhaps even a

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as she

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