Pregnant by the Vampire King: Arranged Marriage Fantasy Romance by Electra Cage

Author:Electra Cage [Cage, Electra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-02-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8 - Vinir

Two armed guards dragged the fae with the glowing red stitches out onto the stone slab, locking his wrists in place so that he would be restrained for this procedure as well. Vinir watched from a distance, a worm of guilt burrowing in his gut and trying to make him change his mind about this.

Roland had told him time and time again, that magic wouldn't work to fix his curse. The only magic that would work was the kind that couldn't be commanded.

Love.

Was Vinir a fool for dismissing his friend's advice?

Or was Vinir a fool for even considering it an option?

He had come so far. Months of preparations and failed experiments to get to this one fae who had finally survived the trials. If Vinir harvested him now, they should have more than enough magic to cure him of his curse. Assuming it was possible at all.

What if it wasn't?

Vinir growled in the back of his throat. Damn Aelwen for swooping into his life and making him doubt everything. He was supposed to be the cruel heartless king who would do whatever he wanted and whatever needed to be done to win, to succeed. Instead, she sowed all of these doubts in his head, forcing him to believe that maybe there was another option.

Maybe she was that option.

She was the only one he'd touched and hadn't burned. Did that mean something or ... was he reading too much into it?

He wanted to make amends with Aelwen, but he didn't know how. She'd been avoiding him and for good reason.

But he knew if he went forward with this experiment on one of her people, if she found out about the fae he captured and tortured down here—or had, before her arrival and she changed him—then she would be lost to him.

Could he risk that?

Everything about this damn woman was so fucking confusing. But he knew he wanted to try and that ... that had to be enough.

"Stop," Vinir commanded. The guards ceased buckling the fae man to the table, glancing at him with questioning stares. "Free him. Free him and all the fae prisoners."

"My king, what do you mean?"

"I mean, I don't want them anymore," Vinir growled, pushing away from the wall to look at the guards head on. "Free them, give them clothes, rations, and some gold, and send them on their way. I want nothing to do with them any longer."

The guards glanced at each other, clearly confused, but they both bowed to Vinir. "As you command, my king," one said, and then proceeded to free the fae man."

"See that it's done by the end of the day."

Vinir left at once, his stomach tight, but with each step away that he took, the knots there began to unfurl. He was doing the right thing, he knew that.

Somehow ... somehow it felt good.

***

Day later, all of the fae in his dungeons had been freed, and it was as though a great shadow over Vinir's castle had been lifted.

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