bChapter /bb52 /b

This girl was hotness personified. And it was doing me no good that she was trying to climbs upon me like a tree every second.

Common sense dictated that I should leave her the fuck alone right now. She was not in her right mind.

But I just couldn’t walk away from her. Not when bshe /bbwas /b

bshe /bwas not

even hersel

Though a small voice in my head said it was because I was dying to have her look at me like this ever since I brought her here.

She has been a little distant and cold, wary of me ever since she came to Elorin. And I couldn’t be mad at her because I was the one who tricked her.

It was for her own safety, though.

An involuntary shudder coursed across me to think what if the others had found her bbefore /bbme/b? bWhat /bif Martin had spotted her when she was drunk Ske

this and dragged her here like the maniac he is?

What about the others who were just as power hungry and would have fought over her like she was ba /bpiece ofmb everybody wanted to get a share of?

I looked at her seated quietly in front of me osciting between feeling guilty for her acts and getting aroused due to the wine.

And the smell. The delicious smell of her arousall

She sat there innocently, band /bI tried hard to focus on the various bcuts /band bruses on her body. I tried to clean them to the best of my ability.

But goodness, she was so distracting with her innocent eyes and curious expression, I resented myself for bringing her into thisnd of wild wolves.

bValencia /bwas my sweet flower, a foisty one but still untouched by the pore and filth in this kingdom. She didn’t know how deep the politics ran or what strings I had to pull to ensure she bwas /bsafe

Even back in the city, I just couldn’t drag her here like father had instructed us to. When I saw her all the nights ago in that pubb, /bshe had appeared so lonely band /bmiserable.

Even if her face had been confident, there was a sadness in her eyes. And I had interacted with a lot of women to bknow /bthat she was bonly /bfaking it, that inside she was dying and wanted to run away from that ce.

So when she bmistook /bme for a callboy. I just yed along. Something bwas /bbdrawing /bme to her, like an invisible ma

i just couldn’t take my eyes off her, I admired everything about her. The way sheughed, the bway /bher eyes lit up when she smiled, the contours of her

She was fucking perfect and I didn’t want her to be seen by anyone. Part of me just wanted to take her somewhere far from all this mess and hide her from the eyes that wanted to use her for their selfish interests.

It was even worse that some of these vultures were my own blood.

And I was mentally counting the number of scars on her legs, the look of utter terror and exhaustion on her face when I found het.

I didn’t even want to ask her who must have give her the wine. The answer was clear bas /bbday /b

Thad pulled Martin away from her so that he would stop hovering around her bbut /binstead he found ba /bbclever /bway to send me away from Seranth yn?, saying that father had called for me.

However, Father had never called for me. He was reveling with his courfers band /bbwas /bunhappy to see me barge in their small celebration.

That wasted ba /blot of time for me, time where I could have been around Valencia and told her not to bdrink /banything

I cursed myself yet again for failing to protect her. Come tomorrow, I was going to deal with Martin.

But for now, I had to look after my princess, my queen, who could melt me with those gorgeous eyes of hers.

“Does it hurt?” I asked while polling out the small pieces of bstones /band dirt lodged in her skin. When she didn’t reply, I looked up to see her staring at me.

Her eyes were wide, and her lips were parted.

“Valencia” | gently snapped my fingers in front of her, but it looked like the wine had overtaken her senses again.

And I swear I had never found anything so irresistible. She was staring at my faceb, /bat my lipsb, /band I could see the desire shining in those cute eyes.

b“/bCan you say that again?” She asked softly.

“What?” Lasked.

“My name. It has never sounded so full of melody.” She said and batted her eyshes.

And I didn’t know how to react.

She was flirting with me! After she had bjust /bsurvived the forbidden forest and being stuck in the woods alone bfor /bhours.

I also noticed there were wounds and scars on her arms and neckb. /bbShe /bbhad /brun hither tither in the woods. And she was not healing like

ba /bregr woll

The injuries might lead to infection or sickness if they weren’t cleaned promptly. The forest was filled with some very poisonous nts…

So I cleared my throat and asked instead.

“Now, would you mind taking that gown off?”

bNo /bsooner had I said that, she blooked /bat me as if Christmas hade early. She got up from the stool instantly and tried to reach for the zipper on the

back of her dress to pull it down.

“Yes, this dress is very heavy and itchy. I want to take it off.”

“Okay, easy there!” I got up as well as she began bending and twisting herself to take bit /boff

“Calm down band /blet me!” I said finally because she wouldn’t stand still,

But she was still struggling, so I ced a hand on her shoulder and another on her waist to pull her closer.

And then she sucked in a breath too loudly.

It was both cute and ba /blittle funny to see her behave like this. She bhad /balways been this poised and elegant girl, not a frenzied hurry of the thick scent of arousal that was making it very hard for me to stay focussed.

Her skin was so softb, /bso delicate, and the bruises and cuts were like hideous marks that marred her beauty.

I couldn’t help bit /bas gently pushed her hair aside and ced a small kiss at the nape of her neck. And I felt her shiver slightly at that touch.

bI /bcould see our reflection in the tall, full length mirror in front of us. And it felt like a dream to have her like this in my an

The bsun /bwas rising outside the window, and the girl I had been dying to bkiss /bagain was bliterally /bbegging me to take her

I should bhave /bdone that as soon as bI /bnoticed that she was inebriated. But then what would bbe /bthe difference between Martin and L

No, I knew this was the wine speaking, not her.

I wanted to take her. Fuck, I wanted to bury deep inside of her until she couldn’t walk and then cuddle with her to hear her shallow breathing all night. ulli/li/ul

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b“/bPleaseb, /bfuck me!”

She said, and I saw her hand travel down between her legs.

This girl was going to be the death of mell

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