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.

her chest and she wrapped her arms around them in a tight

like a broken litany as she rocked herself back and forth, trembling like a

inside of me.

him in the worst way

to get away from him, he could not breathe. Chest as heavy as stone.

her bed, gazed at her wounds and saw the damage he caused. Never did he think

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had covered every part of her body, detailed only a fraction of her suffering…and even those had faded.

During the heat, her body forgave him too. But the deepest part of her mind, which had finally trusted him as her protector–the part he battered the night he became an abuser–did not. Perhaps it never

so sorry,” she still whispered, even in her deep fear that he would ignore her

describe how he felt. He was

bed’s edge and buried his face in his hands.

the storm that had pulled him under. How does one drown on dry land?

hand

fingers threaded softly through his hair.

his head.

before him, reddened eyes pumped with remorse. “What have I done? The seven

you?” Emeriel Galilea Evenstone, how is any

for us to try, then-”

who will forever beg for your forgiveness. Perhaps I should

do such a thing,” she whispered. “If I am not permitted to feel wretched, neither are you,

“Riel…”

his hair in a soothing caress.

been three years. Three years, and not once did I see any sign of feral. Why

much thought,” she confessed.

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

words was starting to slur.

Could be an explanation, for dark 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 of a spell capable of inducing mindlessness in another. On oneself, yes,

heavier. “So… if it were dark magic, it would not

at her, expression dark. “It would have required a

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fluttered as she nodded sluggishly.

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