Chapter 504:

Closing the distance between them in a single stride, he wrapped his arms around her, pulling her close. His hold was firm, strong, ready to hold her even if she struggled to break free.

But she didn’t.

Instead, she trembled, her fragile body tense against his.

“Your Grace…” she said, her voice a broken whisper.

“I would take all the pain away,” he whispered near her ear. “If I could, I would draw it out of you like poison and make it my own.”

She shook her head faintly. “You already have so much pain. I couldn’t let you take mine too—not if it meant you’d have to bear it within yourself.”

Ukrae. His heart twisted painfully. This girl will be the death of me.

She did not hug him back, but she didn’t push him away either. She stood pliant in his arms, letting him embrace her. That much was enough for him.

PRINCESS EMERIEL

tired. Bone-deep, soul-crushingly

was supposed to lighten her heart. To lift the burden pressing down on her chest. After all, she was going back to her world. There, she

face the problem of her heat. No more suppressants, no more running from it. If it consumed

if it meant arranging five men to help her through the fevered, miserable nights, she would

that, she would live out a small, quiet life, fading into obscurity until the

where

making plans.

to lift… until her grand king pulled her into his

suffocating heaviness eased, and her troubled

truly the most secure place in the world for

pricked at her eyes. How could she ever

did

without all this?

I can

I’ll allow you to rest.” He finally pulled away, kissing her forehead. “Goodnight,

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