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

Urekai spoke, his voice gentler.

least you can do, human king. Give us the princess, and we will leave quietly." "We are ready to pay for her,"

The king's ears perked up

just money, there are gold coins too," The non-scarred

gasped, including Emeriel. Gold coins were rare

to do is hand the

Wait...

Princess?

They couldn't possibly mean...

opened again as two

no, no,

not to draw attention to himself, but it was incredibly difficult. Surely, this

the Urekai were here

guards leading Aekeira to the center of

terror on Aekeira's face mirrored

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

distance between him and Aekeira, who was visibly shaking

cheek tilting her head to the side to get

hard on his desk. "Sold! From this moment on, Princess Aekeira belongs to the

escaped Emeriel's lips before he could stop

knees. "Please don't sell my sister to them. Not to the Urekais! Please,

him a bored look. "It's out of my hands

It's out of his...

"You can't let this happen.

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

face them, anger blanketing his features. But as he stared into those intimidating gray eyes, he couldn't bring himself to give in

read in one of 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 life on the line, he

Aekeira goes, I go," Emeriel

snapped her head toward Emeriel, her eyes widened in terror. "No!

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