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

Chapter 246

Chapter 24.6

Ackeira pursed her lips.

"Don't think I didn't notice the pain you endured, how deeply he wounded you. I was the one who listened to you cry, night after night, because of him. When you thought everyone was asleep, you'd sob into your pillow until dawn."

Aekeira lowered her eyes. "It wasn't easy to let go," she admitted, her voice quiet. "But when faced with the choice between giving us a chance or living every day half-dead inside, I chose to take that chance."

"Even though he's half-mad and soulless?" Emeriel's voice held an edge.

Aekeira's lips lifted in a soft smile. "Even then." She looked up at Emeriel, her eyes bright. "And you know what, Em?"

Don't call me-Sigh. "What?"

"These past few weeks with him have been the happiest of my life." Aekeira's eyes sparkled, a dreamy look on her face. "I've never felt more alive. More fulfilled."

Utterly disgusting. Utterly adorable.

"Give the grand king a chance," Aekeira urged her. "Listen to him. Then decide what you want to do. Running away is not really the answer. The Emeriel I once knew understood that."

"I'm not sure I want to be that Emeriel anymore. That girl let her heart lead... and look at the bottomless pit she fell into. Now, I only follow my head."

Aekeira went silent.

Finally, she said, "And there's nothing wrong with that." Rising to her feet, she added, "I'll go fetch Madam Livia-she needs to know you're awake."

Emeriel nodded, watching as her sister walked toward the door.

But Aekeira paused, turning back, her hand resting on the doorknob.

slavery, the hell of sleeping with a beast. Faced the agony of heat and its recovery, of shouldering a crushing secret, and still lived through being severed from her soulmate. She went through all of that, and

chest tightened hard. She looked away, her sister's words hanging in the

girl was the best part of you," Aekeira added. "She was the strongest part. The bravest. She's everything that made you, you. Maybe you don't have to be her entirely anymore,

Emeriel stared down at her hands. They

small, sad smile. "I will always love you, no

into the quiet, "I love

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Chapter 246

months after

to a splitting headache and an even

will to rise and close the curtains. Instead, she threw a pillow

to hope for her Beloved's return, to pray he would come

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if she had to return as his slave; Emeriel was ready to serve him for the rest of her life. She would accept any crumb of affection he could give her, if

good girl, I promise," she mumbled hoarsely, her

day to

her door, voices

dehydrated," Prince Daviel snapped. "If our men hadn't found her when they did, she would be

laced with irritation. "Why on earth would your sister even attempt to journey back to that

the hell is wrong with both of you? It's as if those beasts sent two strangers back to me! You're both

scream, but she

it

drifted back into

through her, jolting her awake.

excruciating, Emeriel doubled over, a strangled cry tearing from her throat. Struggling to

she pulled down her drawers, there was... blood. So