Chapter 380

‘Zavian, please,’ Emmeline projected the thought with all her might, unknowingly focusing on the connection they shared, the inexplicable bond that sometimes allowed her to reach him even when the entities were at their most demanding.

‘Don’t let them win. Come back to me.’ The desperation in her silent plea was palpable, like a lifeline thrown into the storm of his mind. Others might not know they were messing with a very dangerous being, but she knew better than to let his control slip.

If everything she’d read in her fantasy books were real, then the aftermath would be more than a nightmare. It’d take weeks, if not a lifetime to heal from... both physically and mentally.

The courthouse corridor, filled with innocent bystanders, would become a slaughterhouse if merciless side of Zavian broke free.

For a heartbeat that seemed to stretch into eternity, Emmeline thought her mental pleading might have gone unheard when Zavian gripped Richard’s wrists with such