Chapter 358

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Chapter 358

Aekeira gravely worried about the toil it was taking on him.

“Here.” She patted the space beside her. “Come lie with me. Please.”

“I still have work to finish in the study. You need your sleep.”

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“You can finish tomorrow.” Her other hand moved to rest lightly on her stomach, where their unborn child stirred. “Tonight, come lie with me. With us. Our little one is restless, and he needs his father.”

Vladya’s fierce protectiveness flared in his eyes. She saw his resistance crumble, and without another word, he stepped inside, closing the door behind him.

How attentive he was about their child did things to her, and while Aekeira felt guilt for using it to coax him into bed, her male needed rest.

Since Zaiper had taken her hostage to escape, Vladya had become downright suffocating. There were bodyguards at her side every moment of the day. He denied her leave of the fortress grounds outright. His beast was closer to the surface than ever before, always attuned to her, always scenting her.

The bed dipped under his weight as he climbed in and she shifted, giving him space, but he gathered her into his arms, tucking her against him.

A soft contented sigh slipped from her lips, her body easing into the warmth of his.

“What was your dream about?” Vladya’s voice was a low murmur against her ear.

Aekeira hesitated. She didn’t know how to explain it.

“I’m not sure,” she said quietly.

She could not understand–could not even begin to interpret–what she had seen. Yet it had felt too real. Like a distant memory that simply should not have existed.

Her grand lord’s hand rested protectively over the curve of her swollen belly. In the quiet, his fingers traced slow, soothing circles over the curve of her womb. The last of the tension holding his body rigid slowly melted away.

“Do you know why I call you a bird?” he asked softly.

slightly toward him.

wings and soaring the skies. I never understood those words until you came into my life.” He nuzzled into the hollow of her neck. “You gave me wings. Because of you, this old male takes his first flight toward everything he ever wished for. There were many great birds in my past… yet it was one small,

her heart aching with tenderness as she nestled back against him, closing her eyes.

out to be the greatest bird. A gentle dove who opened her wings wide and let this staggering, ragged creature find refuge.

she longed to hear

special soaring dove, with the strong wings of an

heart swelled so large it felt too big

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love you, too.”

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to see his face,

my princess,” he

was bursting. It was the first time he had ever

so long to say it.” Vladya pressed a kiss to her bare shoulder. “But I have always felt it. Right here, in the dead

sniffled and smiled. “I love

have distressed you,” he sounded

gave a choked laugh, shaking her

tightening his hold

that for a long time, Aekeira listening to the rhythm of his

too, echoed in her mind,

she was still smiling. “Please, do not

into dreaming when his voice came. “I’m not going anywhere,

GRAND KING DAEMONIKAI

awoke.” Grand King Daemonikai’s growl reverberated down the corridor as he loomed over the two trembling servants waiting for him outside the meeting hall. “What do you mean she is

Your Majesty.

to me,

though demons hunted their heels.

into

leave her medications unfinished to embark on a sudden trip no one knew about?

when she’d be back and didn’t think to ask for his permission as his bloodhost to arrange alternatives

doesn’t feel

evening shadows stretched long across the floors. Two females now stood

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