Chapter 307: Leroy’s Fight

The declaration trembled with the rawness of a wound torn open after ages spent quietly bleeding beneath the surface.

He wanted her. Not in the distant, aching way he had yearned while imprisoned in stone-silence and centuries of sleep, but with a living, breathing hunger that roared through him like wildfire. His heart, his ancient, wearied, and starved heart, filled with a greed that startled even him.