Alle Kapitel von Mated to My Enemy: Tamed by the Tyrant Prince: Kapitel 201 – Kapitel 210

DariusThe first thing I felt was the cold. It wasn't the natural cold of a winter night; it was a sterile, leaching frost that seemed to settle in my joints and stay there. I tried to move my arms, but the familiar clink of heavy chains stopped me. I opened my eyes, and the world was a blur of velvet red and flickering candlelight. I was in a high-ceilinged room, my arms stretched wide and chained to two obsidian pillars. My feet barely touched the floor. “Ah, the guest of honor finally joins us.” I turned my head, the movement sending a spike of pain through my skull. Valerius was sitting in a high-backed chair across the room, swirling a glass of dark, viscous liquid. He looked refreshed, his clothes changed, his pale skin glowing in the firelight. “Where is Kael?” I rasped. My voice sounded like it had been dragged through sand. “The wolf?” Valerius smiled, showing too many teeth.“I imagine he’s currently being digested by the hoard we left him with. He was always a bit

DariusEvery time I screamed, Valerius smiled. He was feeding of my pain, if he couldn’t take my blood, I reckoned he relished in the pain that was oozing from me.“You have remarkable endurance, Darius,” he said, leaning over the glass basin that remained stubbornly empty of my blood. “But the nerves can only handle so much before they simply... shut down. We’ve reached that point, haven't we?”He wasn't wrong. My body felt like it was floating in a void of white noise. The agony was so constant it had become a background song. I couldn't feel my hands anymore. I couldn't feel the chains.But what I could feel was the ground itself. It started as a tremor, a subtle vibration in the bone-walls of the floor. All of his men remained oddly still, unbothered, almost like they didn’t notice a thing as well. Valerius didn't notice it at first.Then, the floor cracked and a fracture raised across the floor till it split the pillar in two. The smoke that circled over our head began to whirl v

KaelDarius's knees hit the floor. It wasn’t slowly like you could expect it coming, and it was not dramatically. They just gave out, like the rejection had cut the tendons holding him upright, and he went down hard against the cottage floorboards and the sound of it went through me like a spear."Kael." His voice was wrecked. Completely wrecked. "Kael, please."I didn't move. I stood there and I made myself watch because I deserved every single second of it."Please." He pressed a fist against his sternum, right over the place where the bond lived. Where it was unraveling. "I can feel it. Stop it, take it back, just," He exhaled, sharp and ragged. "Don't do this to me.""Darius,""No." He looked up at me, and his eyes were red and wet and furious. "No, you don't get to say my name like that. Like you're the one hurting. You're doing this. You're choosing this."But I was hurting as well, it hurt me deeply because there was no way I was going to survive without him, it was something t

KaelSoren's unit had been pinned behind the well housing for eleven minutes by the time I got there. I knew because Soren was the type to count. He told me the number the second I dropped into the clearing, his voice flat and professional even with a gash running from his temple to his jaw and two of his people down on the ground behind him."Eleven minutes, Alpha. Six of them. We took out two but they reform.""They what?""Reform." He jerked his chin toward the tree line. "You kill them, they smoke out, and then they pull back together. Takes about four minutes but they come back."I looked at the tree line. Three demons visible, hovering at the edge like they were waiting for a signal. The other three were probably circling. They moved in patterns; I'd noticed that yesterday. Not smart patterns, but consistent ones, which meant something was directing them."Fall back to the infirmary," I told him. "Take your people.""Alpha, we can fight,""Soren." I looked at him. "Fall back."H

KaelThe first wall was easy. Reed took out the two patrol guards before they had time to register that something was wrong, clean and quiet, and we were through the outer perimeter in under three minutes. Aveline produced the scent suppressant from her satchel, a thick grey paste that smelled like wet ash and nothing else, and we applied it in silence and moved to the second wall.The ward against wolf-kind sat in the air like pressure. I felt it before I saw it, a resistance against my skin, like walking into water. The dark lines on my arm flared once, hot and sharp, and the voice stirred.“Interesting,” it said. “Old vampire craft. I remember when they first learned to do this.”I ignored it and pushed through. The resistance peaked and released, and we were on the other side, and the voice went quiet again."Everyone through?" Aveline whispered.Three nods."Third wall in forty meters. Once we cross it we are visible to every vampire inside. From that point, twelve minutes. Not e