Chapter 551:

She pressed his head to her midriff, her arms encircling him lovingly. As his body trembled in her hold, she stroked his hair soothingly, petting him.

“It’s okay to release it all. Do not give guilt the power it craves. Guilt peels away the salve on a wound, leaving it raw… scarred… never to heal.”

The wind swept through the meadow, tugging at their clothes, whispering through the grass.

“Everything around me dies,” he muttered, his tears soaking into her dress. “Everyone meant to belong to me dies.”

“You should run, Emeriel. Run far, far away from me.” Yet he held her tighter. “I should not have stopped you from leaving today.”

his hair. “And you, Your Grace, cannot run from me. Because this time, I will chase you to the ends of the

the shore. He shook his head. “If I hadn’t rejected you the way I

his cheek, coaxing his

you did the right thing sending me away, and I’m so sorry it took so long

a slave, and you had been feral for centuries. You hadn’t even had time to grieve, to truly process your loss, and all of a sudden, I was thrown at you. Someone you did not choose. Someone from the very species that took your family, who has

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her eyes,

Neither of us was ready for the severed bond or the pain it brought. But that separation was necessary. It

his head returned to rest against her middle, and Emeriel resumed stroking his

clung to her heart for years began to ebb, replaced by a

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