Chapter 451:

Taking her hand, his touch both familiar and foreign, he pressed his lips against her knuckles.

“My elusive beloved,” he said, his voice a warm caress. “Please, will you walk with me?”

No.

It was right there, at the tip of Emeriel’s tongue. All she had to do was open her mouth and breathe the word out.

But her lips refused to move, the protest stuck somewhere between her heart and her throat.

Why was it so hard?

She did not want to walk with him. Every part of her that had toiled, survived, and endured screamed against it.

Yet, she took a step forward, not away from him, but towards him. The people erupted in a chorus of approval, some clapping their hands.

fallen into? The grand king

no idea what was real and

once again pressing a kiss to her

call me that,”

carried the sweetness of what could have been and the bitterness of what was lost.

flashed in his eyes. It

. com

smoothly. “I will take

She glared.

grin lit up his

tongue at the sight. Never had she

seen

she stared dumbfounded

Finally, she caught herself.

horse,” she

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