Chapter 470
Yuki’s fingers traced the border between Björn and the Silver Kingdom, her mind already several steps ahead. If the Silver King thought he could move unnoticed, he was sorely mistaken. She would not wait for the first sword to be drawn—if war was truly coming, she would be the storm that struck first.
Yuki’s attention shifted inward as her hand drifted to her stomach, fingers brushing lightly over the place where life had once stirred within her. Her son. The mere thought of him was enough to send a storm of emotions raging through her heart.
Fear. Pain.
He had brought both into her life in ways she had never imagined. The pregnancy had been unlike anything a mortal—or even a half-demon—could endure. And yet, the moment she laid eyes on him for the first time, all those emotions were eclipsed by something far more powerful.
Devotion.
From that instant, she knew she would do anything for her child. No force in the world, not even Björn himself, could stand between her and the life she had brought into existence. But the child of her and him was never going to be normal. That much had been certain from the very beginning.
His mother was a demigod-level half-demon, a being whose very presence commands attention. His father, Björn, was something even greater—a god-level demon whose mere existence warped the world around him. What kind of being could be born from such a union?
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Yuki closed her eyes, recalling the months of her pregnancy.
Unlike other children, the prince did not simply take nutrients from her as an ordinary infant would. He required something else—something she had not been providing.
It had started subtly at first, an unnatural hunger stirring within her. She had dismissed it, attributing it to the strain of carrying a being so powerful. But then, one night, the hunger had taken hold of her completely.
Her eyes had turned blood red, and before she could comprehend what was happening, she had sunk her claws into the throat of the maid who had come to serve her.