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

Chapter 247

THE PRESENT

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Seated on the bed, Emeriel shook uncontrollably in the stillness of the night. Her uneven loud breaths echoed in the silence

of her chambers as she rocked herself back and forth, her arms wrapped tightly around her knees.

None of the grand rulers had returned from the ancestral shrine.

Why do you do this to yourself? Why revisit the most painful memory of your life?

But she knew why this particular memory had broken free from its chains. The intimate conversation with King Daemonikai about children.

"If you can give me a child, Riel, I will lay the entire world at your feet."

Her trembling worsened, teeth clattering. If only he knew... if only he knew how close they had come.

We agreed to bury it, didn't we? To leave it in the past and live as if it never happened?

That's how she had lived.

Going through each day as if she were whole, as if she weren't splintered inside. As if she hadn't lost the most precious gift the gods could ever give her. Losing her child had forced her to grow past the pain of their severed bond, beyond the heartbreak that had nearly destroyed her.

It had forced her to become stronger, to bury the old Em, the one who had known innocence and hope.

After all, If I hadn't been so weak, I wouldn't have lost my child.

Who would have imagined it, that she'd conceive from her first full heat? And who would have thought she would lose it the way she did?

"You're alright. You're alright," she whispered, rocking herself. If only the movement would stoke some warmth in her soul.

But no one knew. Not even Aekeira.

secret Emeriel would carry to her

tell him, a male who so desperately desired children, who had suffered the loss of his two children,

himself... just as she had never

burden was hers alone to bear, even

always angry. No one knew the extent of her pain. No one knew why the old Emeriel had died so the new, hardened

she hadn't survived the loss

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had worked so hard to build was crumbling around her. The armor she'd forged was

she had buried were clawing their way back

he had borne the pain of venom inside him while it destroyed his organs, all in an effort to save her life. Just the thought of it made

active, yet she was falling

Did you ever truly fall out of love with

Emeriel was... terrified.

easy to say, "Give your

watching her child slip

hadn't spent these last two lonely years, torn apart by the memories of a life that never

live with the misery,

child might have looked like, how

would have been a strong, handsome

been a piercing green like their father's, or the deep

quake

GRAND LORD OTTAI

wanted was to collapse onto his

was always long, intricate, and draining. But if it yielded results, as it had the last time, then it

He turned-

gods!" Ottai cursed, jumping in surprise. "Emeriel,

princess stood leaning against the wall, shrouded in shadows, eyes

He was so fatigued that his usually sharp senses had dulled.

wait here for you," she replied,

more closely. "How is your body holding up? Are you well?" When she didn't answer, he sighed. "What do you need, then? If you're looking for the grand king, he returned with me. He should be in Frostfall now-" "You gave me your word." Her voice was quiet. "You said, 'Whether you could help him or not, if it ever became too much, you only need to ask, and I would take away from

never forgets a promise,"