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

Captive Slave 97

Chapter 97

EMERIEL

Emeriel's body screamed with exhaustion.

Every rasping breath seared his lungs, every step sent tremors through his leaden limbs. Yet he ran, propelled by the blind instinct to survive.

"Damn, wish we had kept the arrow!" an assassin's voice grated behind him, followed by the ominous whisper of steel sliding

free.

Emeriel reacted without thought, a desperate lurch to the side, barely evading the unseen blade.

So close, almost there....

He never saw the hands that seized him. One moment he was running, the next a vise-like grip yanked him off his feet.

His scream choked off as he dangled, kicking uselessly against the tremendous strength. A chilling laugh echoed in his ear.

"Got you at last, pretty prince," his captor hissed, a venomous glee in the words.

"Let me go!" Emeriel shrieked, his voice cracking. The beast. hell tear you apart if you touch met Dont-

"Silenice, wretch! Do you really think you're special to our feral king?" the soldier barked into Emeriel's ear. "I will slit your throat and see how precious you are then!" The now-familiar urge returned.

A persistent rush just like that fateful day in court. This time, Emeriel did not fight it. He surrendered.

"My beloved, I need your help. My beloved, please help me," Emeriel's desperate cries echoed against the cold stone walls.

His voice trembled with fear and dread. What if the beast does not answer his plea?

"What the hell is he saying?" one of them cackled.

A roar filled the air. It tore through the silence like a guttural explosion that seemed to shake the very foundations of the fortress.

in the name of

"Gods above...

the soldiers glanced around, desperate to pinpoint the source

the one holding Emeriel barked. "Let us get this boy out

of splintering wood cut him off. An ear-splitting snarlipped through the air, followed by a blur of movement, too

breathed another soldier, his

the stone floor, But the

flesh and bone. Screams echoed, mixing with

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adrenaline surged numbing his senses. He'd come. His beloved came for

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last of its attackers, Emeriel

you," he choked out, burying his face in the

to ebb away. A gentle nudge from his massive head, accompanied by a soft, rumbling growl, conveyed a

you tomorrow, and I... I cannot bear

face pale. The beast lowered him to his feet but did not release its hold. Emeriel

in there, somewhere. I just don't know how to

gaze slowly moving to Emeriel's neck, fixing

breath, his heart pounding. Was that some

tell me something?" Helplessness mingled with desperate

then, he felt something

blood surged through his veins, and a tingling warmth followed. Emeriel yearned, with a sudden, fierce intensity,

the vulnerable curve of his neck. "Drink," he rasped, "Please, I want

been waiting for the invitation. A rough tongue lashed across his neck, followed

beast had begun

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the shadows. He watched,

Unable to tear his gaze

bot wondrous and horrific,

of the world's nature the beautiful heights of goodness and the abyssal depths of evil. Yet, even with a past scarred by darkness, he had never, in all his extensive life, envisioned a sight such as this. Daemonikai had broken free to answer the boy's call. The boy's