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.

and she wrapped her arms around them in a tight grip. “Please stop

words came in a repeat like a broken litany as

died inside of me.

a frozen statue as his female ran from him in the worst way one should run from another.

against the wall to get away from him, he could not breathe. Chest as heavy as

caused. Never did he think

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

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

deep fear

word to describe how

bed’s

storm that had pulled him under. How does one drown on dry land? Yet he had sunk.

hand touched

threaded softly through his hair.

his head.

have I done? The seven gods…

Forgive you?” Emeriel Galilea Evenstone, how is

for us

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

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

“Riel…”

in a soothing caress.

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

given it much thought,” she

have too. Gone over it again and again in my mind, but there is nothing. One moment, I

her words was starting to slur. “Perhaps dark magic?”

of it. 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

heavier. “So… if it were

have required a hefty ritual, perhaps even a blood sacrifice. A dark mage.”

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as she nodded sluggishly.

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