Chapter 48

Being chained physically is painful, but being chained emotionally is the worst. The throbbing pain, the feeling of emptiness, and the loneliness are unbearable. No herbalist nor a priestess or her spell could ever cure the pain. There is no cure at all. Oh, there's a single cure, but what will happen next? Death?

How I love being free. Free from laws, free from responsibilities, free from expectations, and free from all the pain I love freedom, which I've been wishing for. Who would have thought that a princess like me is damn looking for freedom?

In the eyes of all of them, in the eyes of all the vampires in this world, I am a free princess who can take everything in the blink of an eye. Who would have thought that the princess of the Gazellians had things beyond her reach? I have everything vampires want. I have beauty, power, a royal family, and a whole empire, but still, there is something big missing in my whole life, and that's freedom.

I closed my eyes whil