Chapter 338

PRINCESS AEKEIRA

Aekeira sat by the window, stitching as she hummed an old lullaby. Sunlight spilled pale and thin through the lattice, allowing her to enjoy the quiet and peace.

Until Emeriel entered.

She moved like a sleepwalker. Eyes swollen and red, face pale with exhaustion. There were dark circles under her eyes, and her lips trembled even as she tried to hold herself together.

“Em!” Aekeira dropped her sewing at once, rising quickly to her feet. “Are you alright? Why do you look like-?”

Her sister crossed the room, collapsed into her arms, and started bawling. The kind where the sobs are harsh and violent as if dragged from the soul.

“Speak to me, what’s going on!?” Aekeira was panicking more with every sob. “You’re frightening me! You know you shouldn’t be crying like this; you’re pregnant for light’s sake!” Now she was crying too, unable to hold back. “Em, please!”

Still, Emeriel only wept.

She cried as though there was no end to her pain. Sobbed as if no hope remained in the world.

Aekeira gave up, and only held her. She sank back onto the bed, drawing her sister down with her, rocking her and crying with her, as though they were children again.

She had no sense of how much time passed. At last, the sobbing eased. Subsided into torn breaths and hiccups.

“I’m broken, Keira…” Emeriel said in a whisper of defeat.

“How can you say that about yourself?”

“Because it’s true,” she looked at Aekeira with swollen eyes. “I am broken… and I don’t know if I’ll ever heal.”

will. Tell me…please.”

about that night months ago, and how

at his mercy, unable to escape, pleading for just a moment’s reprieve as I bled everywhere, yet couldn’t get one. When he hurt me so effortlessly, not caring about his strength or how torn I already was inside, he just kept taking and taking.”

Aekeira who was weeping now after that full,

k something that terrible would not pass

“But until I do, something has to be done. And that’s what is

younger sister in the eyes. “What do

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time to figure myself out, I must make a decision to keep him sane, in order to protect him, myself, and our unborn

GRAND KING DAEMONIKAI

as dusk surrendered to night, Ottai trailing at his

the falconer’s every effort. One of the newly–bonded ravens had missed its mark entirely, vanishing into the gathering dark. By the time

bowed low at the archway before heading toward Mabblewood. Daemonikai ascended the corridors alone and entered his bedchamber, already

lay on his bed, her back turned

mantle, then stripped down to his nightclothes. When he climbed into the bed beside her, she stirred and turned

waiting for you,” she said with

feeling? Did you eat

Madam Livia gave me some herbs

eyes bothered him, and she looked pale.

hands over the folds of her gown. “The head healer came today. He delivered the remainder of my medicines today, and he

“What things?”

“Please, don’t punish him, it’s who asked him questions about

I don’t mind. You needed to

eyes. “I’ve been thinking about

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