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…”

Her fingers ran through his hair in

victorious on

He breathed shakily.

years. Three years, and not once did

have given it much

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

unnatural…” Her words were

“Perhaps dark magic?”

explanation, for dark magic is potent.” He adjusted his

magical text of our people, and not one of them speaks of a spell capable of inducing mindlessness

hummed, voice growing

dark magic, it

he glanced up at her,

required a hefty ritual, perhaps even

fluttered as she nodded

It will take time to get a response, but I must know

know…” Her thoughts were drifting now, her body

caught her as she collapsed, scooping her effortlessly into his

her head on his shoulder, nuzzling her face into

“Oh… I feel weird.”

he huffed, amused despite

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