His lips soothed the pain and she stayed still, realizing one more thing; her mind was clearer than the last few months. She didn’t hear the voices in her head.
[Then all you need to do from now on is to listen only to my voice.] Khaos mindlinked her again.
“I will get bored very soon if I only listened to your voice,” Zuri grumbled, but she lifted her head to give Khaos an access to kiss her neck out of instinct. His touch alleviated her pain.
[I doubt you will get bored of me very quick. I am quite a charm.]
Zuri bristled when she heard that, but he was right. “Just because I let you to touch me and kiss me, it doesn’t mean I am no longer angry.”
“I know. Be angry for as long as you wanted,” Khaos replied simply.
For a moment, they stayed like that, relishing each other company.
“What happened?”
And Khaos spent an hour to tell her in detail about what happened. It had been two weeks, since the last time she was in the pack.
He looked for her. He stopped them from hurting her and he killed Elijah. Great. Zuri liked that part. She asked him in detail how he killed him, relishing it in her mind and Khaos could see it through the mate bond.
Yet, he still didn’t call her crazy for taking pleasure from such grueling image. That was the time when Zuri’s mind was the clearest.
She felt almost… normal.
***
After what Leonard witnessed between Nycta and Killian, he confined the queen in her quarter and sent Killian to the cell. It was a treason. Even though, Leonard knew what actually happened.
Yet, the king was not here and it was not his order to sleep with the queen. She was already pregnant, there was no need for it anymore.
Needless to say, the two of them cheated on the king. They were fooling around behind the king’s back and had the audacity to do it in his study room.
Someone else could walk on them. Nycta and Killian were being stupid and bold.
This was a delicate matter and right now, Dacre was tending to a problem in River Creek pack. He was not sure how to deliver this message, but in the end, a week later Leonard wrote to him. Therefore, the news about it was rather delayed.
“Why did you do that, Killian? You ruined yourself.” Leonard stepped into Killian’s cell. He was chained to the wall with silver, rendered him unable to shift or break free. “You shouldn’t have done that and you will live peacefully.”
Killian refused to answer Leonard, he refused to talk a word to the royal beta.
“You know that you killed yourself the moment you touched the queen.”
Finally, Killian regarded Leonard with a nasty look. “I want him for myself. I compromised the queen, but right now he is with another woman.”
Leonard shook his head. “Do you think the king is with princess Rose?” Killian didn’t answer this question, but he knew that was what he was thinking. “You are so stupid. The king will not touch the princess. If after all these years you were with him, you think so, you don’t know him at all.”
“Maybe I really don’t know him at all,” Killian replied dismissively.
***
They managed to put four more curses on her, which meant, there was only one left before the completion of the beauty blood.
Khaos arrived in time when Elijah was about to inflict the last curse. Bryden was still a little bit off about that. If they reached them a little bit late, Elijah and his magic users would have completed it and they could harvest the beauty blood from Zuri.
It was a pity, they turned up at the critical moment. Only if they were a little bit late…
“We have not yet heard any report from the palace. The last report came almost a month ago.” Bryden walked beside Khaos, as they followed the long line of people, who were going into the Great Lunar kingdom.
In front of them, standing tall Great Walls of the kingdom. The wall was in the color of white and there were many warriors, who checked all the people, who wanted to past the gates.
“Do you think something happened to him?”
Khaos didn’t answer him immediately. “Send someone to check on what happened in the palace.” He knew something like this might happen and he had pushed his luck with ‘him’.
They have planned this trip to Great Lunar kingdom before the event of Zuri’s kidnap and Khaos decided to bring her right away once they left the Great Palace in Three Deadly Ways.
The plan that Zuri had set for Caiden to carry had come to fruition and they needed to take the next step in order to get back the Golden Stamp. Caiden had done his role wonderfully.
And right now, they were right outside of the Great Lunar kingdom’s gates, waiting for their entry, lining up with the other merchant to enter the Great Wall.
These were the merchants that the king from Great Lunar kingdom managed to lobby, as they only allowed to sell the food supplies to this kingdom, leaving the other two kingdoms perished during the winter.
Khaos used his identity as a merchant again and actually managed to get his guild to ‘get lobbied’ by the king himself.
Therefore, it was not a problem to get through the gates. And for Zuri, she played her role as his ‘wife’ again, but this time, she was close to one. He already marked her and she wondered how their arrangement after the completion of the beauty blood.
“You have promised about that,” Zuri reminded Khaos grimly.
“Thing changed. I will not agree to that anymore,” Khaos replied casually, as he took off his clothes without any shame in front of her.
This would be the first time for Zuri to see him without clothes and this distracted her from their current argumentation and Khaos was well aware of that.
“That’s not fair!” Zuri shook her head to clear her mind from the sight before her eyes. He was a distraction.
Currently, they just arrived at the inn, where they were going to stay and meet with Caiden in a few hours when Zuri brought up their situation.
Khaos had promised her freedom after the completion of the beauty blood. Her memories would be erased and she wouldn’t remember any of this.
Yet…
“You are going back on your own words!”
“That’s not the first time,” Khaos shrugged, he turned around and faced her, while Zuri averted her gaze from his nakedness.
She felt stupid. Why would she feel embarrassed? It was not like she was a virgin, she had seen Xaden naked before, but why seeing Khaos bothered her?
“Probably because I have a better figure than him. Obviously, I am more pleasant in the eyes than him.”
“Stop reading my mind.” Zuri didn’t know which one was more annoying, to have Khaos reading her mind or listening to the voices in her head that recently turned suspiciously quiet. She didn’t hallucinate as often too.
“You need to learn how to block it then.”
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