Chapter 147. Tie Me Up (1)

Translator: Atlas / Editor: Regan

Regardless of her warning, Leah was attracted by these smiling eyes. She knew Ishakan was an distinctive and exquisite man, even when he made her cringe typically together with his shamelessness.

However when he checked out her, his fierce eyes softened. There was no means she might refuse this man. Leah shook her head and leaned towards his chest, and Ishakan hugged her as if he had been ready for simply that. The hand caressing her backbone was heat and agency.

“I assumed I had left all the pieces behind…”

She might hear the rattling of chains in her ears, and although she knew it was an auditory hallucination, she needed to battle the urge to look down at her ankles. She didn’t wish to look. A part of her feared that her ankles have been really shackled. She tucked her toes below the blanket.

“I’m nonetheless serious about Estia,” she confessed, making an attempt to flee the shadows tormenting her. “It’s…upsetting…”

Ishakan laid his hand on her head, her cheek resting towards his agency chest.

“Don’t take into consideration something. Simply fall asleep. You’ll be advantageous after an excellent sleep.”

Leah closed her eyes. She hadn’t even been awake half a day, however she drifted again to sleep in his arms, hoping she might keep awake for just a little longer tomorrow.

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Her physique was transferring by itself. Leah didn’t like this. She needed to scream, however nothing got here out of her mouth. Grabbing a dagger, she approached the person, sleeping soundly.

Although he had been sleeping, his eyes slowly opened as she approached, and the second she met the gaze of these golden eyes, she plunged the dagger into his coronary heart. The horrible sensation of reducing into human flesh was transmitted straight into her arms.

Solely then was she launched from her restraints. However now that she might communicate, Leah stated nothing. She might solely look down at what she had performed, and it was Ishakan who made the primary transfer as she remained frozen and soulless.

“It’s okay,” he stated, hugging her. “It’s okay, Leah.”

“Why, why..” Leah stated, as his sizzling blood started to spill. Although he might have stopped her from stabbing him, he had simply watched as she plunged the dagger into him. Ishakan tucked a lock of her hair behind her ear, whispering.

“I didn’t need you to get damage accidentally if I dodged it.”

Leah wakened, startled. The road between dream and actuality was blurred and he or she panicked, rolling over and tumbling up and doing. She stifled a yelp of ache and rushed to verify her arms. She sagged when she noticed they have been clear of blood, overcome with reduction and anxiousness.

It was a dream. But it surely might additionally change into actuality any second. A thought appeared in her thoughts.

I’ve to return to Estia.

She didn’t belong right here. She had to return to Estia. She staggered to her toes and ran to the closest exit, a window coated with a skinny curtain. The cool night time breeze touched her face as quickly as she pulled the curtain apart, and Leah got here to her senses as if she had been slapped.

“……”

Leah stared blankly. Dim moonlight shone on the white stone buildings, and palm fronds swayed within the breeze. She set free the breath she had been holding and sank right down to the bottom, overlaying her face in her arms.

Her complete physique trembled. Solely now did she actually perceive. Not solely had she change into Cerdina’s puppet, however she had misplaced her thoughts. She was unhinged. She thought she had discovered the underside, however there was no finish to this despair. There was all the time a worse hell.

Alone at midnight, Leah turned, startled. A pair of eyes was watching her within the moonlight streaming by the window. He stood silently and checked out her with calm eyes, as if he had been watching from the start. Wanting up at him, her lips moved slowly.

“…Lock me up.”

Her worry was insufferable. Particularly with the imaginative and prescient of this man, unresisting as she stabbed him, floating earlier than her eyes.

“You may put me in jail, isolate me someplace, or tie me up. If this goes on, I can actually kill you…” She whispered, her face pale. “Assist me with this, Ishakan.”

Ishakan didn’t reply to her determined plea. He knew higher than anybody else that she had not been free of the Queen’s spells. He possible understood precisely what was in her thoughts. However he confirmed no worry, smiling barely as he seemed down at her.

“You’re so naive…” he stated. Lifting her, he slung her over his shoulder and carried her to the mattress, throwing her onto it. A second later, one thing fell on the mattress in entrance of her.

It was a pair of leather-based cuffs with a series. In contrast to the cuff within the carriage that solely sure one wrist, these sure each, and Ishakan connected them deftly, securing the chain on the cover on the head of the mattress.

That wasn’t all. He shackled her ankles as nicely. There was no lengthy chain from the cover, however a brief one between her ankles. The chain was solely the width of a hand, so it was inconceivable for her to even stroll. Having her limbs sure made her really feel higher. Regardless of the discomfort, it was a reduction that she wouldn’t be capable of damage Ishakan as she had in her goals.

“I’ve tied you up as you wished.” Ishakan stated as he climbed on high of Leah. “I promised you I might heal you, so I don’t perceive why you might be so nervous.”