Spoiled By My Nine Beast Husbands (Emma Tibarn) novel Chapter 58

**When She Opened the Door to the Life She Was Afraid to Live**
**by Nora Vale Kingsley**
**Chapter 58: The Kiss and the Clarification**

“Take my starrail. That way, Ms. Tibarn can travel comfortably. Once I finish handling the situation with Kael, I’ll come find you.”

With those words lingering in the air, Damian departed, leaving Edric with a sense of urgency that propelled him upstairs. He needed to speak to Emma.

Knock, knock, knock.

He raised his hand, his knuckles gently rapping against her door, each sound echoing his anticipation.

It felt like an eternity before she finally appeared, shuffling toward him with sleepy eyes that struggled to stay open.

“Edric, do you need something?” she mumbled, her voice thick with sleep, as she leaned against the doorframe. Her hair, tousled from a night of slumber, framed her face in wild, disheveled strands that danced around her shoulders.

Edric swallowed hard, his gaze drawn to the warm, sweet scent that enveloped her, a fragrance that felt both comforting and tantalizing.

Therians, he remembered, were known to carry inherited memories, especially the Ophidian, whose instincts were particularly acute. Their ancestral knowledge was only rivaled by the Drakonid.

“Emma, I want to take you to the Interstellar Hunter Alliance for a few days. Do you want to go?”

“The Interstellar Hunter Alliance?” Her eyes widened, suddenly alert, as if a switch had flipped within her.

“Do we have to leave right now?” Her voice was a mixture of excitement and apprehension, a spark igniting in her eyes.

Edric nodded firmly, the urgency of the situation palpable. “Pack a few things. We’re heading out immediately.”

The quickness of his response seemed to raise her suspicions.

“What about Damian? Is he coming?” she inquired, her brow furrowing as she searched his face for answers.

“He has something to take care of,” Edric replied, trying to keep his tone steady. “Once he finishes, he’ll meet us there.”

The way Damian had rushed off without a second thought only confirmed to Emma that something significant had transpired.

Emma studied him intently, her eyes narrowing slightly as if trying to decipher a hidden truth. “Why did he rush off like that? What happened?”

Edric hesitated, not wanting to burden her with the weight of the truth regarding the Divine Flame.

“I don’t know the specifics. He got a message and left,” he finally said, hoping to quell her growing concern.

“I see,” she responded, though her tone suggested she wasn’t fully convinced.

Straightening up from her slouched position in the doorway, Emma stepped closer, her finger lightly tapping against his chest through the fabric of his shirt.

A jolt of electricity coursed through Edric, his body responding to her touch in ways he hadn’t anticipated.

“Em… Emma…” he stammered, his pulse quickening, his throat feeling tight as he struggled to find his voice.

As she observed his flustered reaction, Emma slipped an arm around his neck, rising onto her toes, and pressed her lips against the corner of his mouth. The warmth and softness of her kiss left him momentarily speechless, his mind racing.

She paused, her mind racing as fragments of memory resurfaced. He was one of her past matches, a name she recognized from her lightcore.

Pulling it up, she found his name on the earliest match list—the first individual whose people had come to her, requesting the dissolution of their connection.

“What’s going on with him? And what exactly is the Divine Flame?” she asked, her voice now laced with concern.

The warmth that had enveloped Edric in her presence dissipated, and he felt a sudden shift in the atmosphere. He glanced at her serious expression, feeling an inexplicable sense of injustice.

She really used that method to force a confession out of me.

He was on the brink of breaking, but sheer willpower kept him from surrendering completely.

He explained everything, carefully omitting the part about poisoning Laura and her mates, knowing it would only complicate matters further.

Emma listened intently, rubbing her chin in thought. “So that giant fireball that fell from the sky that night was the Divine Flame.”

Thank the Beast God for saving me from that Rank 11 Chitinid!

“Kael must be out of his mind. He already went through with the dissolution, so why insert himself into this mess?”

Edric’s frustration mounted as he realized that neither he nor Damian had known Kael was one of Emma’s matches. With this newfound knowledge, Edric’s desire to confront Kael intensified.

“We found out he has been searching for a female who once saved him,” Edric explained. “We confirmed that the female was you. He must have traced the clue back to you and assumed Evie stole your chance to go to the Central Planet. That’s likely why he did what he did.”