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

Captive Slave 178

Chapter 178

Chapter 178

"He should come out and face us first. We need to see his face jakal added coldly. "Tuman, leave our king's fack and gu stand at the center

Emeriel made a soft, helpless sound, but finally, relinquished her grip on Daemonikai and stepped into the open, her body quivering like a leaf in the wind. Daemonikai remained motionless, merely watching.

"Those truly are breasts," Zaiper said, awed and incredulous. "I should have seen this before... it was all right there. The missing piece of the puzzle"

Once that one piece falls into place, the other connections become glaringly obvious. Vladya saw Zaiper's mind turn, like the inner workings of a clock. Saw the exact moment the cogs clicked into place. Zaiper went pale. His jaw slackened, eyes as round as a full moon.

He knows Emeriel is Daemonikai's Soulbond.

"You... you..." Zaiper took a step back, his breath out of control, composure crumbled to dust.

"Is everything alright, your Majesty, Zaiper?" Concern was etched on Gaff's face.

"All is as you can see, Gaff. We have a female who dared to live amongst us here in Ravenshadow under the guise and deceit, for months and months on end," Zaiper rallied, trying to mask how shaken he was. How much he despised knowing Daemonikai's Soulbond stood within reach, yet he couldn't pick her up and snap her spine

in two.

But he had plenty of reasons to execute Emeriel, and the thought clearly excited him. He was trying hard to curb it, but Vladya could see through it all. That glint in his eyes was one of anticipation. The crime of identity deception is so severe even the grand king might not be able to save Émeriel, and Zaiper knew that.

face. In moments like these, he wished he could peer into Daemonikai's mind and know what was going on in there. Was he contemplating intervention, or would he simply walk away, leaving Emeriel

held together because of the grand rulers' inflexibility of law enforcement. Daemonikai himself did not tolerate lawlessness. In a land where every male harbored a beast inside,

his gaze drifting back to the girl who now stood in the spotlight, surrounded by angry Urekai like tiny prey among ravenous predators. He wished there was something he could do for her.

outcome of today might be, but that would be a lie. The truth was, he...

Everything she had done, every lie she'd told, was in the name of survival. Vladya could relate to that. And she looked like she had been dragged through hell and back How desperate must she have been to forsake everything and call out to her beloved for help? Chapter

out, silencing the crowd "By the power vested in me. I pronounce

For someone so nonchalant about kingdom

crimes," Zaiper continued, his tore merciless and final. "You will be locked up in the dungeons while the rulers deliberate on your

method!" someone shouted from the crowd,

the scum of the

now!

"Make no mistake, we shall punish

resignationas they marched forward,

opened his mouth to speak, but another voice

do

words, low and authoritative, cut through the

the crowd as he finally moved, stepping forward to stand in

retreated without

"What does it

to interfere with the punishment of a criminal. Surely, that cannot be, can it, Your Grace?" Shock rippled through the crowd

if there is still a punishment, when there were no crimes to begin with, Zaiper," Daemonikai said smoothly, yet

"I do