Lord X stood close to Kristal as she held his hand tightly like her life depended on it. On a normal day, he would sentence any girl that had touched him to the dungeon. With Kristal, he couldn’t. Things went in the opposite way, instead of shining her away, he secretly prayed that she won’t leave him.

“I’m sorry you had to pass through the pain.” He said as he sat down on the bed close to Kristal.

He thought of the bite marks he had seen on her body the day he saved her and got angry again. “I shouldn’t have killed them immediately.” He thought with regret in...