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

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

any man tremble. "It is the least you can do, human king. Give us the

ears perked

gold coins too," The non-scarred

Gold coins

do is hand the princess over,

Wait...

Princess?

They couldn't possibly mean...

opened again as two guards led Aekeira into

no, no, not

bit his lip hard, trying not to draw attention to himself, but it was incredibly difficult. Surely, this couldn't be what he thought

were here

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

terror on Aekeira's face mirrored Emeriel's

I need to do is sell her to you, and all this money is

between him and Aekeira,

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

struck it hard on his desk.

lips before he

and fell to his knees. "Please don't

gave him a bored look. "It's out

It's out of his...

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

his voice turned the high-pitch of a 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 with

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

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 had no intention

too. Where Aekeira goes, I go," Emeriel

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