That Prince Is A Girl The Vicious King's Captive Slave Mate by Kiss Leilani

CHAPTER 2

PRINCE EMERIEL

Stepping outside the next morning, two warriors stopped before Emeriel. "The king summons you, my prince," One of them said. "Your presence is needed in the courtroom." Shit. That foolish minister wasted no time ratting on him.

Emeriel let the way to court. It's just whipping, he will be fine.

But, as he walked down the hall towards the door, it was eerily quiet.

Something was wrong.

The court was always noisy from the outside. Mutterings, murmurs, arguments were always expected.

His worry deepened when the door opened, and all eyes didn't turn to gaze at him condescendingly. Instead, everyone's eyes were fixed at the center of the king's court. Emeriel's eyes followed theirs.

Two men dressed in all-white apparel robes, with long, straight, waist-length black hair stood, appearing harmless.

But a longer glance had Emeriel noticing muscles barely concealed under their robes, their slightly tipped ears, and their incredibly unnaturally handsome faces that were completely unreadable. He froze.

Urekai.

These ones looked expensive and aristocratic.

Emeriel's throat went dry. No one prays to meet a Urekai face-to-face.

"What do you say, King Orestus?" the Urekai with the long scar running from his cheek spoke. He looked the most intimidating.

"No, this cannot happen," King Orestus protested, looking terrified, and doing a poor job of hiding it.

The frown on Scarred Urekai's face deepened. Clearly, this was a being that did not take no for an answer.

"You are mistaken if you think we are giving you a choice, human king," he said, taking a threatening step forward.

court gasped, shrinking back into

the other Urekai spoke, his

king. Give us the princess, and we will leave quietly." "We are ready to pay for her," the other Urekai added, reaching into his robe and withdrawing a large

receded. The king's ears perked up with

gold coins too," The non-scarred Urekai

Gold coins were rare

continued, "All you have to do is hand the

Wait...

Princess?

They couldn't possibly mean...

as two guards led

no, not

trying not to draw attention to

way the Urekai were here to

leading Aekeira to the center of the court, stopped a few

Aekeira's face

let me get this straight," King Orestus began, "All I need to do is sell her to you, and all this money

distance between him and Aekeira, who was visibly shaking

cheek tilting her head to the side to get a better look. He appeared

struck it hard on his desk. "Sold! From this

Emeriel's lips before he could stop

the courtroom and fell to his knees. "Please don't sell my sister to them. Not to the

king gave him a bored look. "It's out of my hands now,

It's out of his...

couldn't believe what he was hearing. "You can't let this happen.

awaits her beyond the great mountain! How could you agree to sell her to them?" "As if he has a choice," Lord Vladya scoffed,

anger blanketing his features. But as he stared into those intimidating gray eyes, he couldn't bring

the books that an Urekai had the power to take a life without physical contact. It might just be a rumor, but with his sister's

too. Where Aekeira goes, I go,"

widened in terror.