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.

into? The grand king calling her “Beloved,”

had no idea what was real and what

King Daemonikai said, once

me

been and the bitterness

eyes. It was brief, gone as quickly

. com

smoothly. “I will take that

She glared.

grin lit up

the sight.

seen him genuinely

at her insides, and she stared dumbfounded

Finally, she caught herself.

horse,” she noted, her voice

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