~Caius~ I stared at the c***k in the altar, watching the symbols on my hands do this weird pulsing thing. The array was going way harder than any of my calculations predicted and I'd run those numbers at least fifteen times last night instead of sleeping. Valeria's royal bloodline was insane, like off-the-charts insane, strong enough to wake up whatever had been passed out inside this thing for centuries. The probability of this shouldn't even exist. Out of the corner of my eyes, Valeria stood in the center with these golden marks spreading across her cheeks, and she had that expression, the one where she was pretending to be brave but was actually scared shitless underneath. God, she was divinely gorgeous. The more I looked at her, the more my brain malfunctioned. No girl has ever had

