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.

toward

her neck. “You gave me wings. Because of you,

she breathed, her heart aching with tenderness as she nestled back against

the greatest bird. A gentle dove who opened her wings wide and let this staggering, ragged creature find refuge. In her shelter, he held on, grew new wings, and

And now, she longed to

soft. “My special soaring dove, with the strong wings of an

heart swelled so large it felt too big for her body.

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love you, too.”

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She tried to turn in his arms, to see his face, but his

my princess,”

her eyes stung. Her heart was bursting. It was the first time

Vladya pressed a kiss to her bare shoulder. “But I have always felt it. Right here, in the dead shell you brought back to life. I love

smiled. “I

I have distressed you,”

laugh, shaking her head. “It’s a

chuckled, tightening his

a long time, Aekeira listening to the rhythm of his breathing, letting the silence wrap around them like a second blanket.

too, echoed in her mind, over and over.

for her, she was still smiling. “Please, do not leave

already slipped into dreaming when his voice came. “I’m

GRAND KING DAEMONIKAI

moment she awoke.” Grand King Daemonikai’s growl reverberated down the corridor as he loomed over the two trembling servants waiting

hands wringing together. “I… I truly do not understand, Your Majesty. I inquired after her myself, and her handmaidens said she

them to me, now.”

demons hunted

stalked into the Grand High

Sinai leave her medications unfinished to embark on a sudden

arrange alternatives

doesn’t feel right.

the floors. Two females now stood waiting by the door, heads bowed low.

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