Chapter 606:

“Who would have believed, ten years ago, that this would be our life today? That you, Em, would get to live like this. A girl. A princess.”

Emeriel’s gaze drifted to the ceiling. “It amazes me too. If someone had told me back then that I would be here, living this life, I would have thought them insane.”

“I used to think the best thing that could ever happen to me was being sold to a kind aristocrat,” Aekeira let out a small, bitter laugh. “Someone who might make me his breeder. Maybe even let me service his men to keep them happy, but at least he’d offer me protection. He’d keep others, the ones he didn’t authorize, from hurting me. That was my dream, Em. That was hope to me back then.”

Emeriel didn’t chastise her for the harshness of the thought. She saw the truth in it. Back then, such a life would have been considered a blessing. Compared to the endless horrors they had endured before meeting the Urekai, it was almost a mercy.

“I never thought we would find love here, Keira,” Emeriel said softly. “Powerful men who care for us in return. Who want to protect us, possess us, and keep us for themselves instead of sharing us. So what if they have more demons to fight than the demonchasers?”

“So what if their minds deteriorate from time to

us. We will always be there to pull them out of the dark. Even if it consumes us. Because that’s how much we love

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did, Em. Because it’s exactly what I would have done for Lord Vladya. What I

remember. That day, when my secret came out

back then… he wanted to whip me, but thankfully, he ended up whipping the slave master who hurt me instead.” In a lower tone, she whispered, “Even then, when I was so terrified, I was

stared at her sister with sorrow and

him,” Aekeira said, her voice thick with emotion. “I love that male so

completely. Exactly how I

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