That Prince Is A Girl The Vicious King's Captive Slave Mate by Kiss Leilani

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Chapter 53

EMERIEL

Emeriel awoke in Aekeira's chambers, his sister hovering over him.

"She's awake, Amie!" Aekeira's voice echoed throughout the room. "Please go and fetch Madam Livia."

The ruffle of movements followed.

Emeriel's head throbbed with a headache, and his mouth tasted bitter from the herbs likely forced down his throat.

He attempted to sit up but winced as his body protested. "What happened?" he groaned.

"You had another mini-heat yesterday and somehow ventured to the forbidden chambers on your own," Aekeira's voice trembled with a mix of dread and disbelief. "When Amie told me, I could hardly believe it. By the gods, Em! Going into the forbidden chambers willingly and alone!?"

Memories flooded back to Emeriel. Aekeira was right-what had possessed him?

"I don't know, Keira," he admitted.

"But... but... I simply don't understand." Aekeira started to pace, visibly agitated. "There are plenty of Urekai males around. The guards would have gladly locked you up in a room and tended to your needs until the heat subsided. You could have easily gone to any of them. So why did you choose that beast? Why?"

"I really don't know. My body made the decision for me," Emerie confessed, resigned.

Aekeira stopped abruptly. "What?"

Emeriel exhaled loudly. It was one thing to acknowledge the truth within himself, and another to voice it aloud.

He hesitated.

be questioning you after the night you've had." She moved closer and settled beside Emeriel on

by a carriage. Every part

sorrow shadowed Aekeira's features. "I know that feeling all too well. Madam Livia said you needed to be awake to take a particular herb-what was it called again? Oh, snakevines. She mentioned it would be more effective in alleviating the pain." "Okay." Emeriel surrendered to his body's exhaustion and lay

the fourth wing in the early hours of the morning to check on you. And there you were, lying in the hallway." A note of awe and wonder entered Aekeira's voice. The beast brought you out, Em. It laid you out in the hallway." Emeriel did not expect that. His face must have shown his surprise,

sounds absurd to me too. I simply don't understand. The beast didn't harm you. It didn't make any deliberate attempt to inflict

gazed off into the distance, falling silent for a

aloud. "As soon as the heat

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And when the heat

maintain control."

the fourth wing on my own, Keira. I couldn't wait to be with him. To feel him inside me. All I could think about was

up in Emeriel's eyes. "I think I belong to that beast, Keira. I am his

with vehement denial. No way. Do not let such a dreadful thought

would never be so cruel. Don't ever entertain such

Emeriel's

want no part of this." He swallowed hard and looked away. "But

Aekeira grasped Emeriel's hands firmly in hers, shaking her head with determination. "There must be another explanation. Perhaps your body craves more of him because he is the only one you've been intimate with That feral

"Not yet, Emeriel interrupted.

confusion evident on her face

crazy. He had thought so too, when he found

you twice, Aekeira added, trying

to what I read, no matter what a Urekai male does to sate

the end, the body repairs itself back to the way it was before heat. The beast has mounted me twice now, and both times I was