Chapter 678:

“Why are you looking at me like that?” she slanted her head, bewildered.

“No reason.” Herod blinked, shaking off his thoughts.

“Forgive me.”

Herod caught yet another worker stealing glances at her before hurrying off.

“My workers are intrigued. They find it difficult to believe the Galilea they once knew… is now the grand king’s female.”

“I see the way they look at me. And then there is your son.” She looked over her shoulder.

“He seems determined to follow us for the rest of the day.”

Herod, already knowing what he would see, breathed deeply before he looked.

Sure enough, Dale leaned casually against a tree, arms folded as he nudged a small stone with the toe of his boot. When their gazes met, his son immediately feigned deep interest in the sky, as if that had been his focus all along.

Herod pinched the bridge of his nose.

“Ignore him.”

Emeriel chuckled.

added, “How do I convince him

I have tried—repeatedly. It does not work.” Herod shook his

legends. Tales of Daemonikai the Cruel, Daemonikai the Heartless, the Berserker

smile lingered on Emeriel’s face

what’s going through his mind

the garden, the scent of fresh flowers drifting through

??? ???

same,” she murmured, staring at the rows of roses and vines woven into

“I miss this place.”

“I knew you would.”

bed to another. She grazed

my lord,” she said suddenly, her tone light as she spared

new

Herod arched a brow.

continued, plucking a rose and bringing it to her nose, inhaling

in your life, a companion to share

been anyone else, Herod would have given

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