Chapter 399:

“You mean Em’s love has been sustaining his soul, and when she was taken away, it started to wither?”

“His love, young princess,” Lord Ottai corrected gently.

Aekeira flinched.

That longing rose, so fierce it whipped through her like a storm at sea. Squeezing her heart so tightly, Aekeira cried out in anguish.

“Are you alright, young princess?” Lord Ottai’s concern was evident as he took a step towards her.

“I’m fine, please don’t call me that,” she strangled out, one hand pressing against her aching heart, the other raised in a plea for distance. “Please… don’t.”

“What?” Lord Ottai was confused. “The young princess?” Memories flooded her, dragging her back to all the times her grand lord had called her that.

“No one has the right to be this beautiful, young princess.”

“Kiss me, young princess.”

Too vivid, too painful.

so much it feels like a part

she panted, squeezing her eyes

apologize,

the aching void in her

theory doesn’t make sense, Lord Ottai,” she said, her voice strained. “The grand king

When everything else dear to him was taken, she was the only thing he came close to caring about

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the gaping wound that never healed took over and spread. Like Vladya with his feral madness, the grand king hid this from us. But unlike Vladya, he

swallowed, her throat dry. “What happens when one can no longer fight

are complete,

“What?”

Lord Vladya doesn’t

Vladya’s soul is not dead, it was lost to dark magic. It’s alive in the realm of the spirit, where no one knows. Alive,

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