62. Venom of Revenge

Dev was awestruck after reading her mind, and he lowered his head towards her lips to end her suffering. Akshara talked back, "I can’t read your mind. Can you do that?" (Akshara heaved her chest to fill her outbreathed lungs)
"Of course, I can read your mind," Dev mentioned, and Akshara was scared of revealing herself, "No you can’t do that."
Dev slid his hand over her fingers and slid upwards towards her neck, passing her shoulder, "Every inch of your skin is craving my touch."
Akshara opened and closed her mouth repeatedly, responding to his touch, and said, with stammering, "No. That’s not true."
Dev tilted his head in wonder with her reply and instructed her, "Close your eyes and think of the person whom you like the most." While his other hand landed on her belly, which penetrated through the small opening of her garments to reach her waist.
Akshara closed her eyes absorbing his flaming touch, wheezed deeply and the amulet on her neck glows brightly. When Dev hard-pressed her bare waist with his cold hands, she hissed back to take in the sparking happening inside her. Dev watched all her reactions and enjoyed every second. He asked her in his ears, "Did you think of me?"
"Oh, I am going to burn down into ashes in his touch. How can he be so cold and hot at the same time?" Akshara lied to him, scarcely giving some strength to her voice, "No… No way...I was thinking of my pet birds."
Dev smirked at her and dropped his eyelids to look over her amulet. It radiated brightly. Akshara too followed his eyelids and found the amulet, revealing her feelings. She held the amulet in her palms to conceal its radiance.
Akshara knitted her brows to ask him, "What have you given me...? You gave me this little tracking device... And you... are evil... a hybrid creature... How I will fall for such a hybr... mmphm "
"You already did," Dev said as he kissed her blabbering lips with his newly emerged wings. Akshara said in the middle, "Stop."
Dev heard her saying, "Stop," but she kept on responding to him, "Say you don’t want me. I will stop. (Kissed) Say you don’t fall for me. I will stop. (Kissed) Say you don’t love me. I will stop."
After a little struggle, Akshara smiled at him and responded to him with her kiss in return, and his kiss grew vigorously. His hand trailed from her waist to her back, pulling the strings of her upper garment to get her out of clothes. His cold touch set fire to her bare spines; she drew him in and attached herself to him like a leech, saying, "Not here."
"Then, head back to our chamber," Dev told while attempting to lift her in his hands. At the perfect moment, the royal guards approached the orchid and informed him, "Hail, glorious Crown Prince."
Akshara hid her face in his broad muscular chest and hugged him tightly in blush, breathing his name, "Dev-il."
His white wings were large enough to hide her. Dev turned his head towards the guards and they informed him, "Your Highness, the Queen has summoned you."
Dev replied to them, "I am coming."
The guards left after his eye-gest. He turned his face to Akshara, who was hiding her face in coyness. He cupped her face in his hands, but she refused to lift her face. "Sara, let me see your bloomed face."
Akshara nodded negatively. Dev grabbed her wavy hair to one side and planted his wet kisses on the crook of her neck. She moaned seductively. Dev continued kissing her while saying huskily, "Sara, don’t respond to me. Wrap it up and stop me. Dodge it, my love. I can’t stop myself since I don’t want to leave you now. But, I have to go."
Akshara, who was submerged in him, anchored her feelings back to the surface and pushed him away from her as he instructed, "Enough."
Akshara placed her arms straight on his chest to stop him. But her messed-up hair, partially exposed shoulder, fluttering exotic eyes, and quivered lips soaked in his kiss didn't convey the meaning of the word she said, "Enough." Instead, it gave him an ironic meaning: "I want more".
Dev pulled her towards him and nodded his head right to left, "Not enough." He resumed his action of sucking her lips, and Akshara thought that it was her difficult task to dodge him when she wanted him badly. She told him, "Queen... your mother... has summoned you. You must go."
Both found it difficult to part their lips but did control it by joining their foreheads. They panted heavily. Sara, I will be back soon." Dev told me in his husky voice.
While his hands were knotting the strings of her upper garments, which were untied by him earlier, Dev glimmered through his eyes. He grabbed her hands to place a kiss on her fingers and said, "Once I return, you have to confess the true feelings verbally."
Dev left her with the orchid. Akshara blushed and smiled, adjusting her hair and clothes. He returned to her after three seconds of departure to complete his unfinished smooching.
He pulled her by her neck and gave her a deep kiss on her lips. He stopped to smile at her and turned to leave. Akshara pulled him by his hands and placed her wet kisses on his cheeks. "Come soon."
"Not accepted, Sara. I want to hear your love for me verbally." Dev smiled at her and left to meet the white queen, and Akshara sat on the orchid bench, blushing as she remembered her moments with him.
Dev walked past the antechamber, adjusting his back hair, thinking how Akshara had messed it up with her fingers. He blushed while wiping her kissing marks on his cheeks and lips, "Sara, Sara, Sara!"
Everything was spied on by Indigo, the maid of Nora. She immediately flew to the east wing to recite every glimpse she saw of the orchid.
*****
The wounded guard from the Forbidden Tower reached the ice castle of Ayruzglow and informed them about how they had been attacked by ravens.
The White Queen was ragged in anger to hear, "Send some dragon warriors to the Forbidden Tower to restore the energy shield."
"My Queen, as I have succumbed to the request of your visit to pattern the health of the energy shield, the Queen must take the needed actions to restructure the energy shield with double layer protection." Jaravles requested the queen.
In a rage, the white Queen rose from her throw and summoned her to guard, "Give top priority summons to our crown prince, HERE," and twirled her long gown to face the opposite direction to command the guards, "Have you not informed our crown prince?"
Dev reached the throne room; "I am here." He bowed to the Queen. "Uncle Arav!" Dev bowed to the dark knight, Jaravles.
The White Queen turned to look at her son and descended from her throne towards Dev and opened her mouth, "Leave us alone..."
The guards and Jaravles, the Dark Knight, excused themselves from the throne hall.
The White Queen asked Dev, "Dev,! Do you know why I summoned you...?"
Dev replied, "My Queen! The wound and the visit of our dark knight indicate that the energy shield in the Forbidden Tower was disturbed."
The White Queen said, "Not disturbed... A crack fell on the energy shield."
"My Queen, I am fully aware of what I must do." Dev paused for a moment, the thought of Akshara flashed in his mind, and he continued,"..I will reconstruct the energy shield to ensure the safety of our guards and the forbidden object that has been protected in the forbidden tower."
*****
On the other hand, the castle of Ayruzglow,
Nora was informed by her maid, Indigo, about the crisis that happened in the Forbidden Tower and the departure of Dev to restructure the pattern of the energy shield. Nora wanted to use this opportunity to drive away Akshara from the castle. Indigo further added the intimate relationship between Dev and Akshara in the orchid of the western wing.
Nora laughed briskly, "Akshara, you witch. I am coming to drive you out of the castle and the life of my Dev. I have to task this before Dev returns."
Nora asked her maid to find the whereabouts of Akshara. As expected, Akshara was found in her orchid, which was specially created by Dev.
Nora crushed the green grass and little flowers under her feet and moved towards Akshara, "Ak.sha.ra... is that your name?"
Akshara was expecting Dev, but she was disappointed to look at Nora and looked scared by her act of crushing her plants.
Nora noticed her facial expression and replied, "Who do you expect? Are you disappointed?"
Akshara replied in an empty tone, "No... It’s not like that. I am pleased and I welcome you to my orchid."
Nora moved forward by continuing to crush the little flowers and saplings. Akshara felt vexed and a little annoyed by her deed but upheld her silence.
Nora replied mockingly, "Oh... I am aware that you aren’t aware of the departure of Dev along with my brother?"
Akshara was filled with a mix of wonder, puzzlement, anger, and shock, but she kept her face neutral.
Nora further ignited the feelings of Akshara, "As the entire wing is empty, why can’t you move in to stay with me...?"
Before Akshara could reply, Nora asked Indigo, "Indy, get the place ready for Akshara’s accommodation until Dev returns from the Forbidden Tower." She added, "Who knows how long it will take?"
Akshara left her with no option and silently followed them.
*****
In the witch palace of Ardna Chirig,
Igikran orbited in the sky around the witch palace along with his troops in joy. The black witch was standing in the highest place of the witch palace and watching over them.
Igikran flew to bow to the Black Witch, "My Queen, I have completed the task... What should I do next...?"
The black witch replied, "No... Let them reconstruct their damaged part..."
Igikran asked, "Shall I attack tomorrow?"
The Black Witch replied, "No... We have to be more wicked, Igikran. Let them wait for our next move."
Igikran cawed to inform his troops of the raven wizards.
*****
While in the prison of the witch palace, Azile convinced her parents to take the task assigned by the Black witch.
Deniza said, "You are my only child. How can we able tolerate the sufferings of our beloved child."
Azile replied by hugging her, "Mom... Don’t worry, I can handle whatever task she gave me."
Nuraz stated, patting his daughter’s shoulder, "Azile! You have to be careful with every single move. She is a witch by nature. Do not believe all the things she said or showed."
Azile sobbed after seeing her father's wound and declared, "I will make them suffer for every single drop of your blood."
Azile collected all her strength and left her parents in prison. Azile told one of the ravens, "Tell Nicoria that I have made up my mind to meet her."
One of the ravens opened the prison gate and slapped her hard. Azile hit the wall of the prison and rolled onto the floor.
Azile, with her partial consciousness, opened her eyes to look at them. Another raven told her, "You filthy animal, dare to call our queen by name?"
Azile got onto her knees and spoke with teary eyes, "Tell your queen... I want to meet her."
The raven replied, "Learn some respect, you fragile wolf."
Azile thought to herself, "You will eventually know what this fragile wolf can do... Until then, I can assent to anything and reflex you in multiples."