The Devil's Cursed Witch novel Chapter 130

Just as the first rays of the sun hit the sky, Draven disappeared from the riverbank without saying a word. Morpheus didn’t bother to turn his head and simply lay down on the ground covered in colourful pebbles.

He closed his eyes and spread his arms to the sides to feel that pleasant morning breeze, the growing brightness in the sky seemingly giving his skin a soft glow.

‘Will I be happy after I kill that Dragon?’ he asked himself, only to answer his own question the next moment. ‘Of course, I will be. Isn’t revenge what I have been waiting for all this time? He should face the same suffering that my people had faced. Once he loses his mate, he will be able to understand the pain of losing your most precious one, and then I will have his head and offer it to my parents’ grave,’ he concluded. ‘Once he completes the bond with that human, I won’t even hesitate to do it.’

As he had those thoughts, the innocent face of a human girl flashed in his mind. The way she looked at him, the shy smile on her small face, the brightness in her beautiful eyes, as if she was looking at someone she could trust…

‘Morpheus!’

His name in her sweet voice and realized he never found his name sounding so good before._.

A soft smile appeared on his lips as he continued to remember her child-like innocence. ‘Her eyes, those are the prettiest eyes I have ever seen. I wonder what she’s doing now…if she’s adapting well to living in that large palace too large to be a cozy home…I think she’ll prefer my smaller but comfortable nest over a palace made of stone…’

As his mind idly wandered, an errant thought made him frown. ‘Will I be able to hurt her?’

With the thought of hurting her, he felt stuffed in the chest. Letting out a loud exhale, he discarded all those thoughts from his mind.

‘I am thinking too much. I don’t have anything against her, but she’s unlucky to have become that Dragon’s mate. She is nobody to me. I will kill her when the time comes.’

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The next several days passed by in peace for Draven as his little mate had not pulled any stunt during that time and had remained inside her chamber obediently.

‘I wonder, what’s keeping her so busy these past four days?’

Just then, he heard a knock and Yula entered his study. After greeting him, she asked, “Your Majesty, you called for me?”

[0)??? Draven nodded as he looked at her from the armchair behind his desk. “What is she doing these days?”

The short blue-haired elf didn’t have to ask who he was asking about. “Miss Ember is spending time in her study. She seems to be immersed in reading all day, she barely leaves her study room.” Draven was pleased to hear that his mate was enjoying her time with the books Erlos got specifically for her, but then Yula’s next words changed his mind. “From what I heard from her maidservants, the Miss has been studying the book she borrowed from Your Majesty.”

‘Borrowed?’ Draven scoffed inwardly, not letting it show on his face. ‘She’s a little thief, daring to sneak in here and get a book without my permission. That brazen human only knows how to get herself in trouble.’