Chapter 25: Her Blood in His Mouth
Elys’ face was calm, stoic even, not a single crease on her forehead. But under the surface of a cool demeanor, her heartbeat must have told the prince of what she truly felt right now.
When he reached out to take a whiff of her hair, Elys’ ribcage threatened to burst open. The endless thrumming of her heart was increasing to a full crescendo.
Each beat rising higher than the last.
Faster and faster, it drummed on and on.
She expected him to bite her with his fangs, but surprisingly, he only made a cut on her hand and let her bleed until he saw enough blood in her cupped hand. Aleksander bent forward, pulling her wounded palm to his mouth.
His eyes were on her all the time, and she wondered what was inside his head. Was he reading her mind right now?
She caught a smirk curl on his immaculately dangerous lips – he definitely knew something. Elys couldn’t tell what it was, but for sure it wasn’t anything she would like to hear.
The princess willed herself to calm down. She must have a clear mind in facing the cunning prince.
If he had the ability to actually read minds just as he could bend her perception of reality, then he must have already known everything about her – her real identity and what she had planned for the past weeks of her enslavement to his kingdom.