"Who was that, Emma?" Liam asked concerned as he caressed her cute little face. "Emma?"
"That… I don't know."
He hadn't expected to find her in that state. She was in the bed sweating cold drops from her head as if she was going through a lot of pain. Even the beautiful strands of her silver hair were soaked in a cold sweat from the anxiety and endurance she had to bear.
He clutched his fists as he couldn't follow that man to kill him. Emma's condition was more urgent to attend, later he will have his revenge. However, the only thought of what could happen if he hadn't come in time, sent him a wave of frustration. If he hadn't delayed so much his arrival… then she would be safe in his arms.
"Emma," he took her into his embrace tightly. "I am sorry I didn't come early."
"Don't worry, okay?" she tried to calm him down as she could feel the raging emotions about to erupt.
Some hours ago, he was still hesitating from shamelessly ju
"Ahh!"Inside a small house at the south of Avalor Capital, a man was screaming in pain from the burning leaf on his chest. He couldn't phantom that the Duke would retort to such an extreme and cruel method for a single woman. Even more for an enemy of his country, a witch, a luriem."Your Highness, are you all right?!"The servant kneeling on the floor saw his master struggling to contain the pain. His loud screams were giving shivers to his spine. He had never seen him that way. The thought of helping him with a healing enchantment crossed his mind many times but the man in the bed didn't let him go near him."Don't step any closer, you idiot!"The man knew what the man was thinking. However, he felt repulsed by those thoughts. No one was allowed to pity him. No one.He threw his white mask at the kneeling servant daring the lad to dodge. His raged purple eyes were sending a terrifying aura to the surroundings. So different from his handso
"You have to take care," Liam was beside Emma helping her dress for the tournament. From the inner clothes to the outer robes, even her socks and the shoes were put on by him. The delicate woman didn't have any choice or he will go crazy, at least this way he will be able to touch her for at least a minute. The soft fabric of the dress was letting him feel the warmth of her body and the smell of her fragrance."Don't," she slapped his hand when he was already moving mischievously around her waist and down. "Stop it.""Sigh… you are so tempting," his voice on her neck make her tremble a little.The night before, he barely stopped himself many times from waking her up to eat her. She was looking so cute while smiling in her dreams. She even dared to call his name many times so charmingly that he almost went crazy. That mouth of hers was so tempting.In the end, he didn't sleep for the whole night. The sight was so much for his heart and body. It was
"Welcome to the second stage of the Avalor Tournament."Madame Lu stood on the platform with her long red dress shining with the bright sunlight of the morning. She looked majestic as always, however, this time another group of four beautiful girls was walking by her side, wearing extraordinary dresses. They were carrying big boxes of different colors as their dresses."The group where you will fight today will be decided after our panel of judges reveals the table of rankings."The boxes the beautiful women were carrying were red, golden, white, and blue. Inside were balls of each of those colors. After the table of rankings is shown, the ones on the top will have the opportunity to choose first, while the rest will have to conform themselves with the rest of the places."Now, what we were waiting for," the table appeared in the air as a work of magic. The ones on the top, of course, were the Duke and Ilian, and the ones on the lower part were the ones f
Emma looked like a statue for the whole selection event. She didn't dare to move her head to take a look at the shameless face of the daring dragon behind her.However, the shameless man had his gaze fixed at her, for the whole event. Her cute pale and nervous face was so fascinating to see but more than anything the look of her lips when she couldn't stop biting them. Her anxious state was incredibly cute too.Then a sudden thought invaded his mind. A mischievous trick to tease his beautiful woman, to see if she will react in these circumstances or not.Emma was still focusing on the front watching her new team members when she felt something wrong on her back. His hand was slowly traveling to her waist caressing her back. The feeling was making her shiver and bit her lips again."Stop it," she whispered while still looking at the platform. "Don't you dare… Liam."The man utterly ignored her, instead, his other hand was now caressing her le
"You will have three hours to find the crystal orb around the forest, then you will have to store them on your tower and protect them from the other teams. The ones who have more crystal orbs in three hours will win. Good luck."The voice disappeared and they were left in a state of daze. They looked at each other recognizing their faces, as many of them were the first time they met."This… how we will do this?""Master Allen?""Captain Allen, you decide."They had already decided on Allen to be the leader of the group. It seemed the most obvious choice as he was the one with the better ranking. However, a certain group of nasty dragon girls was waiting in the back looking with disgusting faces. Not even joining the conversation."We will move into three teams and each team will have a leader," Allen didn't mind the sudden post and continue talking, they won't have a lot of time and the forest was too large to inspect. They will have
"We have in total nine orbs… sigh."The group was already reunited on the red tower. It was a tall construction visible from afar the same as the other towers. However, the bright red color of the roof made it discernable for the other competitors, the same with their own towers. The interior was empty space though. Only the top had windows as the ground level had one door. It was a simple construction easy to attack, perfect to test the abilities of the fighters."We don't know how many orbs the other teams have, dammit!""We should go look at them, however, we can't leave the orbs here without protection and we don't have enough people to attack the four other towers, we have to choose who to attack first.""The weaker teams, maybe the black team or the silver team, the blue one had other top rankers too. The golden team is out of question.""Maybe not," one said looking at Emma, "Miss Mina can take care of the Duke, though.""Yes,
"Your Highness, shouldn't we move to attack the other teams?"The members of the Golden team were around the tower enjoying a relaxing time, though some of them were focusing on the next battles.In the last hour, they had collected fifteen orbs, and then they had stopped when the Duke ordered. It seemed that the number was enough to pass the next stage, and, of course, the other teams won't dare to attack them in the least.Not once, they had seen another team member near the perimeters of their tower. They even seemed to be avoiding it for fear of enraging the mighty Dragon guarding the tower at the top.Only a few of the fighters that were lucky enough to stay in the same group as the Duke were now only taking preventive precautions but nothing more. Only a bit more from an hour was left and they hadn't done a lot. Some were even eager to go out to join the fight and warm their muscles before the next stage.However, a handsome Duke was sitting
"Devon, search for the orbs on the top," Emma was directing the rest of the group to look inside the perimeter of the Silver tower. The silver team never thought they would be attacked so soon so they were caught unprepared.They must have guessed that the other teams were attacking the red tower. So they decided to protect their own, or not?"There are only nine on the tower and the surroundings, where are the others?""Betraying their alliance."Emma didn't need to explain as it was quite obvious that they had used the opportunity to land an attack on the blue or black tower. She wanted to know from when they had the time to form an alliance. Maybe some of them knew each other before they choose their teams. That was most likely, but she also knew then, that they betrayed each other."Let's move faster, before the others notice," Emma already had brought down three fighters with her magic space spheres. They were useful to set traps around and ma