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 into their

other Urekai spoke,

gave the king a hard 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

receded. The king's ears perked up

money, there are gold coins too," The

Gold coins

continued, "All you have to do is hand the princess over, and

Wait...

Princess?

They couldn't possibly mean...

entrance opened again as two guards led Aekeira

no,

his movement. He bit his lip hard, trying not to draw attention to himself, but it was incredibly difficult. Surely,

was no way the Urekai were here to buy his sister as

to the center of the court, stopped a few feet from

on Aekeira's

to do is sell her to you, and all this money is mine? There are no other conditions? Nothing else?"

between him and Aekeira, who was

to get a better look. He appeared utterly

hard on his desk. "Sold! From

shout escaped Emeriel's lips before

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

look. "It's out

It's out of his...

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

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

features. But as he stared into those intimidating gray eyes, he couldn't bring himself to

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

will go too. Where Aekeira goes, I

toward Emeriel, her eyes widened in terror.