THE DUKE'S VIRGIN SACRIFICE의 모든 챕터: 챕터 31 - 챕터 38

Lucien…“Elisa”My name on her lips had never sounded so strained and weak before.Unless, for the time, I had heard her call for me while I was in the desert.But I had only come back then to find her in the company of another man.I didn’t let the thought of the delivery boy linger in my mind for too long, for fear of what I might do to him if he did anything at all to her.I was on my feet before my mind could catch up, the sheets slipping from my body as I crossed the room in long strides, my bare feet barely registering the cold stone beneath them.“Elisa!” I called, throwing the door open.The corridor beyond my chambers lay dim and still, lit only by the pale glow of the awakening sun outside.For a moment, there was nothing—no sound, no movement.Then I felt a slight shift in my body, and immediately, my eyes adjusted to the darkness, and I saw the path before me through dim red eyes.I hurried towards the staircase that led down to the servant quarters.I should have taken he

Elisa…Days passed.Days that dragged on like decades, and it was during that time that I realized why many of them were quiet, while others forced me to remain quiet.It was due to hunger, and the strong sea wind that sometimes swept into the darkness and swallowed away every last drop of energy in our bodies as it tossed lifeless forms left and right in the room.I sat at the same corner of the room where I had been since the first day I was brought in, with my head hanging weakly against the wooden wall.It was the safest place to be, at least.Each time the wind came, I only had to hold on to a hanging chain from the wall until the wind stopped.Once, my hand had slipped from the slimy chain, but was held back from flying to the other end of the room by the young girl who remained close to me.Her weak frame had held on tightly to my hands until the wind subsided, and in between that moment, tears had slipped from her eyes, from the unbearable pain of holding on to me.One woman b

Lucien…‘Son of Thorne, the last great son of Odin…’The voice was loud and shook the whole manor like an earthquake…Or was I somewhere else?I was surrounded by darkness and lightning, with an ominous red ball in the sky, casting eerie shadows over the empty land around me.I turned around, still standing at one spot, and tried to recall the last time I had heard that voice.‘You are still a long way from becoming a man, but still too close to losing your youth,’ the voice echoed, and I stopped moving and just stared straight into the sky, as if what I was looking for was in there.“Who are you?”‘I am your father, and your father before you,’ the voice seemed to be standing in front of me at some point, then beside me, and then far away from me.‘I am you, son, ’ it came from behind me this time.“Then why don’t you show yourself?” Kieran growled from within me.I was beginning to wonder if it was one of my nightmares or if I was really awake.Then how did I get here?‘I see you f

Lucien…I found her…I found her crouched in the garden over the swollen earth that marked my parents’ graves.She had her back to me as she bent forward on the grave and did something I could not see from where I was.I stood there for what seemed like an eternity and wondered what to think, what to do.I had never allowed anyone around their graves.It was the only thing in my cursed life that I could still guard with jealousy as only mine. A sacred space I alone had shared with them since I was born and old enough to understand a few things.Watching her kneeling there like she was in her own space, too, unsettled me in different ways.It annoyed me as much as it melted my insides.But I just couldn’t let her in yet.No! I wasn’t ready to share that part of my life yet, no matter how empty it was.“W-what are you doing there?” I finally asked after what seemed like an eternity of standing there and watching her move, but not enough for me to see what she was doing.She turned slowl