That Prince Is A Girl The Vicious King's Captive Slave Mate by Kiss Leilani

Chapter 343

GRAND KING DAEMONIKAI

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Daemonikai found Vladya in Blackstone’s training grounds. The clang of steel rang out over the open yard over shouted commands, and the dull thud of boots.

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When Vladya sighted him, he signaled to Yaz, who immediately continued giving instructions to the soldiers, before striding toward him.

Something in his face made Vladya wary at once. “Are you well?”

“When am I ever?” Daemonikai turned on his heel and began to walk. “It’s coming again, soon. Tonight.”

Vladya did not ask the usual, Are you sure? “I’ll have Yaz prepare the chamber.”

“The voices have been relentless,” Daemonikai ground out. “This one will be stronger.”

Vladya stopped. “Daemon.”

He halted as well, turning to face his old friend. There was no mistaking the pity in Vladya’s eyes.

“How do you bear it?” Vladya asked at last in a low tone. “It cannot be easy. Knowing your pregnant female believes you are bedding others, sick with sorrow over it. Enduring the voices at every hour. Fighting to separate their lies from truth. Being unable to let go and truly enjoy the child you have always longed for because you are terrified of hurting it. Investigations crawling at a snail’s pace, the Oracle’s absence from Urai.”

Daemonikai said nothing. The clang of weapons and barked orders filled the quiet stretching between them.

“I don’t know how much longer I can do this,” he revealed in a fractured voice. “Every day feels like I’m walking a blade’s edge, one step away from falling over completely. The urge does not stop at blood and sex, Vladya, I want to kill and destroy. I want to ride into one of my villages and burn it to the ground just to hear dying screams.”

Vladya listened without flinching. No judgment, only understanding.

“Perhaps Zaiper was right. Perhaps I will always be the Mad King.”

“Zaiper is a bastard, and if he is truly behind this, we will nail him!” Vladya hissed.

any news on him? That male is more scarce these days than sapphire

have found no ties to dark magic. No sightings of him meeting

None of this

my life within her,” Daemonikai said quietly, staring out into the horizon. “Yet all I can manage is to keep my distance, because when I’m near her, the voices scream for me to hurt her. One moment, I swear I would die to protect her, the next, I imagine throwing her against the nearest surface, bending her over, and

lips thinned. “You are starving yourself, Daemon. Even without feral hovering over your

“She’s not ready.”

this, how?” Vladya countered. “You told me you

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one who hears her apologize as if she’s to blame for what you did. It’s not you who has to watch her walk through the

do, but do you truly think those memories only come to her during intimacy? You

Daemonikai looked away.

“I worry for you both. In her condition, she should be getting your seed often. You should be fucking her every chance you get, preparing her body for the birth of

admitted. “After tonight’s episode, I will try again. Perhaps… do something different. Maybe take her to the cottage, we had good memories there.”

is a wise

We cannot continue like

settled upon

females in heat, there’s been an

not particularly interested in that right now, but he

female from her dwelling at night. It was the last time she was seen,” Vladya said. “He claimed the female’s scent was strong–he believed she was approaching

he identify any of the males if

next step. I have already given the order to bring him in.”

line

plantation rows, Emeriel and Aekeira had emerged, each carrying a hand basket filled with fresh vegetables. Their heads

this–carefree, at peace, radiant in a loose dress dancing around the roundness of her

have been