Chapter 692:

Daemonikai lifted his head.

Emeriel stood before him, reddened eyes filled with remorse.

“What have I done? The seven gods… Please forgive me, my king.”

“What have you done? Forgive you?” Daemonikai growled, self-reproachfully.

“Emeriel Galilea Evenstone, how is any of this your fault?”

“I pushed for us to try, then—”

He encircled her waist, drawing her closer, and pressed his face against her belly.

“I am the one who will forever beg for your forgiveness. Perhaps I should relinquish my throne, head for the Dark Woods, and join the ferals there. Pretending to be alright when one is anything but, is—”

“You will not do such a thing,” she whispered.

“If I am not permitted to feel wretched, neither are you, my king.”

“Riel…”

will overcome this… together.” Her fingers ran through his

emerge victorious on the other

He breathed shakily.

what went wrong. It has been three years. Three years, and

given it much thought,”

my mind, but there is nothing. One moment, I was instructing the new recruits, and the next, I felt strange.

words were

“Perhaps dark magic?”

magic is potent.” He

one of them

hummed, voice

magic, it would

up at

have required a hefty ritual, perhaps even a blood sacrifice. A dark

as she

already sent word to the mage king. It will take time to get a response, but I must know his thoughts

must know…” Her thoughts were drifting now, her body going boneless against

as she collapsed,

her head on his shoulder, nuzzling her face into his

“Oh… I feel weird.”

he huffed,

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