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.

the court gasped, shrinking back

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 will leave quietly." "We are ready to pay for her," the other Urekai

king's ears perked up with interest.

are gold coins too,"

coins were

have to do is hand the princess over, and

Wait...

Princess?

They couldn't possibly mean...

again as two

no,

hard, trying not to draw attention to himself, but

was no way the Urekai were here to buy his

Aekeira to the center of

Aekeira's face

to you, and all this money is mine? There are

between him

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

and struck it hard on his

The shout escaped Emeriel's lips before he could

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

him a bored look.

It's out of his...

believe what he was hearing. "You can't let this happen. She's your niece too!

he didn't care. "You know a fate worse than death awaits her

stared into those intimidating

without physical contact. It might just be a rumor, but with his sister's life on the line, he had no intention of

Where Aekeira goes, I go," Emeriel said, lifting

widened in terror. "No!