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

will emerge victorious on the other

He breathed shakily.

this day, I still know not what went wrong. It has been three years. Three years, and not once did I see any

have given it much

have too. Gone over it again and again in my mind, but there is nothing. One moment, I was instructing the new recruits, and the next, I

Her words

“Perhaps dark magic?”

Could be an explanation, for dark magic is potent.” He adjusted

our people, and not one of them speaks of a spell capable of inducing mindlessness in another.

voice growing

dark magic, it would not be

glanced up at her,

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

fluttered as she nodded

It will take time

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

her as she collapsed,

on his shoulder,

“Oh… I feel weird.”

are blood drunk,” he huffed, amused despite

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