บท 59: Sleep

Thea

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- This marriage will give me a legitimate reason to ascend to the throne of Adaman after the death of her parents. - Raphael said calmly.

My lungs seemed to have lost all air. I held my breath from his words, from the horror penetrating into my bones from the tone with which these words sounded. As if someone else's death was nothing significant to him. Although I should have realized this even at the moment when he mercilessly dealt with his enemies in Riliya.

His bloodlust pulsed around him, as if it craved new nourishment, captured and exhausted everyone around, but endowed its owner with incredible strength.

It was as if a thin thread of prudence had broken in my soul, which still kept me from going crazy. I grinned miserably to myself.

- Will it ever end? – he frowned at my question. – Is it an uncontrolled desire to own everything despite the lives of ordinary people?