Casper sat on the chair beside Samara's bed, she was lying there still unconscious four days since they brought her home. Her body was awfully emaciated, she had scratch marks on her back and thighs and her neck bore something that looked like hickeys. Though the emperor had regained some of his radiance when he heard the news of his mate being alive even after all these years, that radiance was waning as each day passed with his mate still unconscious. He blamed himself for everything she had to go through in the hands of Rudolf because he felt like he had made a wrong decision to believe the warlock when he told him that his mate was dead. He could have trusted in the bond and realized that it was not completely broken and probably that way, most of what they had gone through would hav
