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.

sorry!” She cried as her knees came up to her chest and she wrapped her arms around

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

died inside of

as his female ran from him

get

her wounds and saw the damage he caused. Never did

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her body, detailed only a fraction of her suffering…and even those had faded. But the

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

deep fear that he would ignore her “no”

small a word to describe

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

no idea how long he sat there, swallowed by the storm that had pulled him under. How does one drown on dry

hesitant hand touched him.

softly

his

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

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

for us

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 but,

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

“Riel…”

hair in a soothing

went wrong. It has been three years. Three years, and not once did I see any sign of feral.

it much thought,”

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

is unnatural…” her words was starting

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

it were dark magic, it would

dark. “It would have required a hefty ritual, perhaps even a blood sacrifice. A

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as she nodded

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