Captive Slave 180

Chapter 180

Chapter 180

EMERIEL

Emeriel walked in a daze, her legs heavy and her mind numb. The grand king led her through the corridors, stopping before a door in the southern wing. "Stay here." He turned to leave.

"Your Grace..." Emeriel reached out for him, fingers hovered in the air, trembling.

King Daemonikai glanced at her outstretched hand as if it were a venomous serpent. Without a word, he walked out, the heavy door closing behind him.

Emeriel stumbled towards the bed, collapsing onto the cold mattress. Exhaling a shaky breath, she stared ahead blankly.

He had saved her. Her secret was out. Everyone knew.

It still felt... surreal. Like a nightmare she couldn't wake from.

He hates me now.

But he had protected her. She had almost died. Lord Zaiper had been so eager to see her dead. If not for... if not for the other grand rulers, she would be in a cold, hard cell. Or lying lifeless in the courtyard. Looking at her unsteady hands, her eyes grew wet again. This was not how she had envisioned her return.

He hates me now.

"Em?"

see Aekeira standing by the door. Emeriel had been so lost in her despair, she hadn't heard the

open.

had fought so hard to hold back surged

her own tears. Silently, she opened her arms

up and ran into those

I heard, but the crowd and soldiers wouldn't let me through. I heard everything, Em." Aekeira's breath hitched. "They sa-saved you, all of them."

it. Everything we were so afraid of has c-come to pass, yet... you are still here with us. Safe. The worst did not happen." Aekeira shook her head, crying. "The worst did not

"Hey, look at me, Em. Look at me." Aekeira cupped her face, and Emeriel met her sister's eyes, finding a surprising strength in their depths. "We always knew this

"Oh, Em...

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her sobs shaking her mall body. Emeriel's

her tighter, and Emeriel clung to her, Kiera's aris around her were the

to the bed, sitting down and cradling

him sooner, so he wou-wouldn't have found out this way. The look heg-gave me in that

"Cave? What cave?"

and broken sentences, Emeriel recounted

cheek. "I'm so glad he saved you. I shudder to think

"Yes, but-

back, looking in her red-rimmed eyes. "There was no way you could have told him sooner and still gotten away with it.

wiped a tear-stained cheek. "You're not

gently wiped away another tear. "I'm so worried right now, thinking of what's going

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