Chapter 94

Sep 05, 2023

Roxana had been so intent on scaring Pandora that she had completely ignored her surroundings like a fool. Of course, both Cassis Pedelian and Orka Fipellion were infamous for their stealth. She had in fact felt something shift while doing away with the brazen woman’s demon, but the knowledge that it hadn’t been just a hunch did not bring her any comfort.

The way Cassis was looking at her was unfathomable. His gaze seemed as grim as the murkiness of eternal darkness, but for a moment she also detected some sort of gleam shooting out of them. When he finally began to walk toward her, she blurted out in defense without even thinking. “I didn’t start it.”

He, however, made no comment one way or the other and just extended his arms toward her. The moment she felt his warmth flow into her, she noticed she had become airborne as well. Cassis had lifted her off the ground in the midst of the embrace. After he had literally swept her off her feet, Roxana instinctively leaned against his shoulder.

“Miss Pandora Fipellion.” Cassis turned to address the woman who was still standing in stunned silence. “As you are a member of the Fipellion clan, we have treated you with all due respect and courtesy, but you have disregarded basic etiquette and even attacked someone who belongs to me. Thus, from this moment forward you are no longer welcome in Pedelian territory.”

Pandora continued to look stupefied. It was apparent that none of Cassis’ words were registering with her.

“You will also have to answer for your reckless act of summoning a dangerous demon into our fortress.”

Guards quickly gathered around Cassis and the Agrece woman. “Confiscate her demon again, then place her under arrest. Do not allow her to leave her room under any circumstances.”

“Yes, sir.”

After giving them their orders, Cassis made his way back to the annex with Roxana still in his arms. As they walked toward the building, she felt his pure energy seeping into her. “I’m taking you straight back to your room. I’m worried you may have overextended yourself with those butterflies.”

Roxana blinked in surprise. Surely he wasn’t just going to let her off so easily. The fact that he was aware Pandora had been the one to threaten Roxana with her demon first, suggested that he had been in the garden long before she had suspected.

If that were the case, then he must have heard everything she had said as well. Perhaps that was why he had looked at her in such a funny way earlier. Roxana felt she was beginning to see the full picture.

It was also becoming steadily warmer where the two were touching. She couldn’t be certain if the heat was emanating from her body to his, or if his warmth was spreading out to different parts of her body. She was, however, quite certain of what she had just heard him say.

“As you are a member of the Fipellion clan, we have treated you with all due respect and courtesy, but you have disregarded basic etiquette and even attacked someone who belongs to me. Thus, from this moment forward you are no longer welcome in Pedelian territory.”

He had referred to someone who belonged to him. There was no doubt that he was speaking of no one else but Roxana. She couldn’t help feeling giddy about that. On top of that, she was feeling just fine. She might even hazard to say she felt strong after releasing her butterflies, and it was all thanks to the energy Cassis had been pouring into her. He had offered her an especially huge influx just the night before.

“Well, if you’re so worried...” As Roxana finally spoke into his ear, he felt as if her words were melting like sugar in the pools of his eardrums. “...why don’t you just heal me the way you did last night?”

He abruptly stopped dead in his tracks. Suddenly, the two sets of eyes were locked intently on each other. She smiled as she recognized the unvarnished passion and lust in his gaze. It was all too clear that she hadn’t been the only one who regretted their unfinished business from the night before.

* * *

As soon as they were back in her room, Roxana pecked at Cassis’ lips like a hungry baby bird trying to gain its guardian’s attention. As if in response, Cassis kissed her with such force that he nearly swallowed her lips. Their breaths mingled while their tongues coiled around one another and made wet, smacking sounds.

In a matter of seconds, Roxana could feel her body temperature soar. Before she had gained her bearings, he had her lying prone on the bed, then fell upon her with his taut body.

“Mmm...” She let out a soft purr. Her hand slid over his shoulder, then down his back. As the restraints were finally off, Cassis seemed all too ready to devour her.

He was prepared to throw caution to the wind, and thus tightened his arms around her waist. A moan erupted from her ruby lips as he parted her blouse to expose her delicate neckline, then buried his face in her alabaster flesh.

He found her moans to be so sweet, so sensual, so intoxicating that at least in that moment his animal instincts seemed to overrule all else. Like a wild beast marking its territory with its scent, he left his mark up and down her slender throat.

They were identical to the ones he had given her the previous night. While his burning lips traveled down past her clavicle, his hand cupped greedily at her swelling breast.

“Oh, Cassis...” Roxana’s whisper was a force of temptation that invited Cassis to put his mouth around the ripe fruit of her bosom. She clutched at his hair in a neither pulling nor pushing fashion as the suction from his lips increased in force.

“Tell me again what you said earlier,” he said. He had raised his mouth from her soft skin momentarily to speak while slipping his hand over her thigh to lower the single garment shielding her softest patch of flesh from exposure.

“What? That you’re mine?”

With her golden hair spilling over the bed and half of her body unclothed, Roxana Agrece was truly such a sight of beauty that it almost pained him. Her eyes and lips seemed to become decorated with flower petals until they seemed to burn and glow.

As she directed her scarlet gaze up at Cassis, the sheer luminescence of it almost created an effect that made it seem as if she was looking down at him. “Yes, you are mine indeed.”

The sweet melody of her words flowed into his ear as though they were the only true heavenly notes to ever chime. They actually caused him to stop breathing.

“It was so from the moment I first laid eyes on you.”

Her affirmation filled him with such joy that he felt himself tremble with rapture from head to toe. With his heart both full and joyous, he kissed Roxana again.

They laid together as two people enveloped by various, formless forces all at once. Yet at the same time, they repeatedly sought each other out with greedy passion, which they gave and received in turns. With their bodies tangled together as one, both the Blue Heir and the breathtaking Agrece seemed determined to fulfill their personal desires regardless of what the other may have to endure.

They burned with such ferocity that they were practically melting to form one being. Whatever boundary had existed to retain their individual beings had all but gone. There wasn’t time for much thought apart from the understanding that the other person tightly embraced in their arms had become their entire universe. Ultimate satisfaction seemed to flow freely from that understanding. Their bodies traveled over and over again to that delicious precipice of bliss together.

“Ahhh...” In that moment, they both felt they could even welcome the world coming to an end with open arms.

* * *

“This is seriously so f*cked up!” Jeremy cursed as he once again looked over what was left of the Agrece mansion. In truth, there wasn’t much at all. His handsome face was riddled with anger and annoyance lines.

While the sun’s parting glow stretched over the horizon, the shadows bound to the earth flitted to catch up. As dusk was encroaching, the desolate Agrece compound was bathed in crimson light. Except for the annex where the caretakers had been evacuated to, there was nothing left of the Black castle’s old glory.

As for the people who had inhabited the main mansion, some had left while others remained. After gathering those who had chosen to stay behind, Jeremy began to work on rebuilding what could be restored of the compound. However, anything and everything about the endeavor proved to be quite the ordeal.

Time and time again he would start laughing at himself for having contributed to the destruction of his own home, only to find himself leading the efforts to reconstruct it. It was especially troublesome at sunset as the waning daylight would always seem to reflect the sad state of their former kingdom. The sight caused Jeremy to feel as if he were the lonely king of a defeated empire.

“This is all utter crap! Though I guess being king is better than being nothing.” Yet again, Jeremy found himself laughing bitterly, but this time due to the humor of his own wit.