Chapter 345

Lord Vladya and Lord Ottai exchanged glances, a silent message passing between them.

“I would rather show you,” Vladya said at last, his face stoic.

He led her from his study. They crossed through the royal residence and continued onward. Deeper and deeper into the heart of Blackstone, past the familiar halls, and into the deserted corridors few dared enter.

Emeriel was beyond confused. Her dread grew. Why are we here? What does this have to do with my beloved?

They reached a massive iron door, stretching from floor to ceiling. Vladya withdrew a heavy key from his pocket, fitting it into the enormous lock. The tumblers clanked into place with a grinding groan and the door creaked open, revealing a dimly lit hall lined with thick, iron–reinforced doors.

They walked to the very end where Lord Vladya stopped. “We are here.”

She glanced around. None of this made sense. “Here? What is-”

Then she heard it.

A growl of agony. Weak, yet deeply familiar. Horrifyingly familiar.

“No, this can’t be…” She took a step back.

Vladya slid open a small, barred viewing window in the door before them. “Look.”

Blood drained from her face. She did not move.

More sounds of her Daemon’s pain reached her, killing her a little more inside. Emeriel whimpered. It was as if someone had reached into her chest, grasped her heart, and ripped it right out.

“No. No…” She shook her head. “I–I don’t understand. Why is he–how is this happening?!”

“Usually, the episodes break after a day,” Lord Vladya said.

Her eyes watered. “He has been like this for three days?”

Lord Ottai nodded solemnly.

“But… But he… he satisfies his instincts.” She blinked furiously.

“Bloodlust, not Sexlust,” Lord Vladya answered evenly. “Daemonikai does not sleep with Sinai, or any other female.”

“No, you don’t understand,” Emeriel insisted, frantic. “We had an arrangement. We agreed he would be…” She swallowed hard. “He would be… with her.”

“You didn’t wish for him to risk an episode or worse, lose himself to madness, so you agreed he should satisfy both needs with his bloodhost. Is that correct?” Lord Vladya said.

not supposed to be here. I don’t understand.” She stepped back again, the walls

not bring himself to it, Emeriel. Your male has not lain with a female in

she could not breathe. For a split second, she thought she

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say about her that instead of feeling horror for what he had endured, hiding such suffering from

terrible person was she that hope, happiness, relief–was dancing in

harder, falling without end as she slumped against the wall. “I’m

his usual levity gone. He looked every bit the Grand Lord he was. “Look at me. Never–do you hear

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I want him so much… and yet I cannot-” She could barely bring

hear your screams. “His thumb brushed a tear from her cheek. “If I, who

her gaze,

are not broken. There is nothing wrong with you.” He waited until her eyes found his again before he went on. “You’re one of the strongest beings I have ever met. Stronger than many of our females combined. You have done what others have crumbled attempting to do, walked paths others died to walk.”

she clung to them… yet she couldn’t help herself. “You really do not think… something

do not. And neither does Vladya.”

glanced at the Grand Lord, who stood leaning against the wall, arms crossed. He gave a single, decisive

a faint huff. “Everyone sees the way he looks at you like you are the most precious thing Ukrae ever carved. That male

her

does refer to me as a star,”

“I’m sure he does.”

and she swiped at the lingering tears. She felt…

look through that small hole. Just hearing Daemonikai’s pain was

we do for him? It breaks

to come out? Have you

startled. “Who are

the stone archway, looking sheepish.

Emeriel’s jaw dropped.

snooping around?” Vladya growled, tone ice. “You truly think we would not

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hiding such suffering from her for over four months the first thing she felt

that hope, happiness, relief–was

slumped against the wall.

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