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

Chapter 423:

Admitting it aloud for the first time was like shedding twelve heavy cloaks Daemonikai hadn’t known he was wearing.

“Oh…dearest, I know.” Evie gave a kind, watery smile. Taking his hand, they walked along the shore, the waves lapping gently at their feet. “I know you better than you know yourself, Daemon.”

He breathed deeply, the air suddenly feeling lighter, fresher. He could finally say it without drowning in sorrow, without the rain of guilt.

It was exhilarating.

“I don’t know what I ever did to deserve a woman like you, Evie,” Daemonikai said sincerely.

“I was the lucky one,” she exhaled a slow breath. “Always have been.”

“Galilea made me feel strange things. But I was okay with it, for it distracted me from my misery. That was, until I found out why she made me feel that way.” He stared out at the ocean. “I felt so angry, deceived. Guilty. I thought sending her away was the best thing to do.”

it wasn’t, was

emptiness. Then his nightmares came more frequently, followed by dreams of

he saw the family he had lost, the empty pit that was once the center of his universe. On the other side, he saw the soulbond he had lost—a female whose body he craved,

a new version

they didn’t make things easier, did they?” As if that

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the night they flooded his mind. Vivid, fragmented

Emeriel patiently hand-feeding him.

her again and

rage he’d felt as he tore

summoned him to court, and he had answered, driven by a need to protect her, a need

strange contentment in her presence, Emeriel had been his