Chapter 869:

“My name is Amie,” she continued quickly, “and I’ve been sent with a message from the healers.”

“Speak,” Vladya ordered.

“The princesses are in labor,” Amie exclaimed. “Princess Emeriel was the first to break her waters, but she said not to worry, Your Grace, that she had more important matters to attend to and would be fine. But Princess Aekeira panicked, and now her waters have broken as well. She’s crying for Lord Vladya, so… the healers finally agreed they needed to inform both of you!” She gasped, breathless. “Both are in labor. Right now.”

Tension ran down Daemonikai’s back. As soon as the words “labor” sank in, he and Vladya exchanged a glance, then immediately broke into a race.

Daemonikai paced in one corner of the hallway while Vladya walked the other. Behind the heavy doors, the raw and gut-wrenching sounds of labor echoed—cries, screams, the urgent voices of the healers. Each one tore at Daemonikai’s composure like knives.

gaze from across the room. No words were needed.

hanging by a

the wind through the stone halls: both princesses

that the night that had taken everything from Daemonikai—his family, his sanity, his soul—would now

through

toward the door with his fist

him once more. “You

so close to the surface that his eyes glimmered with a golden gleam. “They’re suffering, Daemon. An intense pain. I can feel it through

said softly. “But this… this is their battle, Vladya. The only thing we can do is be here

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