Xikoth said in his soothing, throaty voice, “You are safe here. If you leave the Kingdom of Xomor, they will abduct you. At the moment they are lurking near him madly to find a trace of you.”
For the rest of the day, Amelia was on her own. Xikoth hadn’t come and even she needed privacy. Her handmaiden Zaila had come back with more food, which she devoured. Everything in the food-list was so delicious that Amelia couldn’t have enough of it. So basically she only ate and slept and then woke up to eat again.
Next day Xikoth had sent her a thick book on symbols with a note:[Read it and if you are not able to understand anything, Zaila will help you. And if even she can’t e
Amelia spotted a small door to the right of the room and walked to it. It was a bathroom, double the size of hers. She looked for towels. They were neatly stacked in a wooden shelf. She couldn’t make out much because of faint light, but she managed to soak it in warm water and fill a small bucket with warm water and bring it near his bed. Sitting near him on the bed, she cleaned his blood with the warm water very gently. Her heart pained seeing his deep wounds. She could almost see his flesh.
After sucking blood from Amelia, Xikoth had recovered within an hour. He couldn’t sleep that night as he continued to stare at her until the wee hours of the morning. She was so pale that he had covered her with a blanket and hugged her body in order to give her all the warmth she needed. Her face showed color in a few hours and relief flooded him. She was so beautiful that his breath hitched in his throat. When he had saved her from Vargauz, part of her hair had turned golden, but today almost half of her hair was golden. He lifted them in his hand and let the silky tresses fall
For one week, Amelia had been asking to see him, but he was refusing. She was beyond angry and at the end of it, she was more than determined that she wanted to go back to her world. She wanted to meet her father. This was not her place. He was least bothered and in her heart she came to understand how selfish he was. Now that his purpose was served, he no longer wanted to see her. After Zaila told her fifth time that he had denied her audience, she had stopped asking him. If he didn’t meet her, she would just write a note to him that was leaving. Her life had come to a standstil
Amelia stared at Xikoth with disbelieving eyes. “You are an immortal! How can you die?”“It’s complicated,” he said with a sigh. One way
Everyone at the table stared at Amelia. Xikoth’s fingers curled and his nails dug into his palms due to his inability to stand up and help her. He gave a side-glance to the servant who immediately filled her glass with water.
The guards opened the heady door for her. As Amelia walked inside, she gaped. The Queen’s chamber was beyond imagination. The walls were an ivory white with tints of blue sapphire sprinkled sparsely. The whole ambience was a mixture of blue and gold. She had only read about such rooms in her history books, but this—this was something that left her speechless. The wall-to-wall royal blue carpet had intricate patterns of two dark faes with swords standing against each other as though protecting as sentinels on the ground. In the center of the room hung a gauzy curtain through
Nyka was enraged that the nymph, a woman lower than her, was tricking her. The portal was created by one of the demons who she had bargained with and it wouldn’t stay for long. She had to get to the nymph, kill her, grab the bag and then come back. Not much time was left.
“Do you think this is going to work?” asked Nyka. Now that things were moving forward, her interest was increasing. Would Xikoth actually give that much money for the antidote? She chuckled and then rubbed her hands.
“We must go and meet the Contact, Xikoth,” said Amelia over dinner. She had been craving to meet him. Though her father, Ivanov was recovering, she thought that keeping an antidote handy would be better.
Xikoth brought his wife closer to his chest and kissed her forehead. “Calm down Amelia. We will find her soon.” He pulled her to his lap and cradled her. She pressed her head into his chest and curled her knees. This place was the safest, it felt like home. She craved for it every minute of the day. Her thoughts went to Nyka once again and she regretted not killing her earlier. So much could have been prevented if that woman wasn’t in their lives. Xikoth rocked her lovingly until she fell asleep.
Xikoth’s wings were flaring in rage. He was having trouble controlling his anger. The concubine had escaped and invited his wrath. He knew that he would peel off her head the moment he saw her. “What is it that you want to say, Javri?” asked Xikoth baring his fangs.
When Nyka saw Amelia walking in the court dressed in the normal human clothes, she suspected that Amelia would be visiting the human realm. And there were high chances that she would visit her father, but there were higher chances that she would visit Lyrie. If that happened, all her plans would be spilled and Xikoth would kill her in rage. She had planned on making Amelia her slave because she thought that Xikoth was interested in her, but now she had to flee for life, because if she didn’t, then it was highly likely that she wouldn’t see the new day. The first thing that
Pride glowed in her eyes as she walked coiled around his arms like she was his owner. And Xikoth—he couldn’t feel prouder. It was a blissful feeling. Under his breath he whispered, “Amelia…”
Xikoth’s lips trembled. He had been in love with Ilaria for so long, had remembered her each day, she had been in her dreams everyday, her scent aroused him so to the point of no return, her memories had become a part of his being that it was difficult to let go of her—his Ilaria, his mate, his wife.
It had been agonizing two hours and the court proceedings weren’t stopping. Xikoth was only getting ever more impatient with his lust for his wife. It had been such a long wait that every second without her was unacceptable. His gaze went up to the balcony where Nyka was sitting with her nymphs and his disgust for her returned. He averted her gaze from there.