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.

ministers of the court gasped, shrinking back

Lord Vladya," the other Urekai spoke, his voice gentler. Imploring rather than

look that would make any man tremble. "It is the least you can do, human king. Give us the princess, and we

ears

are gold coins too," The

coins were rare and

have to do is hand the princess over, and

Wait...

Princess?

They couldn't possibly mean...

two guards led

no, no, not my

not to draw attention to himself, but it was incredibly difficult. Surely, this couldn't be what he thought it was. It had to

way the Urekai were here to buy his sister

to the center of the court, stopped

Aekeira's

let me get this straight," King Orestus began, "All I need to do is sell her to you, and all this money is mine? There are no other conditions? Nothing

closing the distance between him

Aekeira's cheek tilting her head to the side to get a better look. He appeared utterly disgusted.

up his gavel and struck it hard on his desk. "Sold! From

The shout escaped Emeriel's lips before he could stop

the center of the courtroom and fell to his knees. "Please don't sell my sister to them. Not to the Urekais! Please,

a bored look.

It's out of his...

hearing. "You can't let this happen. She's your niece too! How could you do

girl's, as he practically screamed. But he didn't care. "You know a fate worse than death awaits her beyond the great mountain! How could you agree to sell her to them?" "As if he has a choice," Lord Vladya scoffed, his deep baritone filled

to face them, anger blanketing his features. But as he stared into those intimidating gray

life without physical contact. It might just be a rumor, but with his sister's life on the line, he

I go,"

toward Emeriel, her eyes widened