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.

was a secret Emeriel

loss of his two children, that she had carried his third,

himself... just as she had never

hers alone to bear, even if it was

withdrew from everyone, why she was always angry. No one knew the extent of her pain. No one knew why the

hadn't survived the

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build was crumbling around her. The armor she'd forged was

in his company, and all the feelings she had buried were clawing their way

the pain of venom inside him while it destroyed his organs, all in an effort to save

she was falling

again? Her inner voice snorted. Did you ever truly fall out

Emeriel was... terrified.

Aekeira, it was easy to preach, easy to say, "Give your heart a

Aekeira hadn't stood in that cold lavatory, helplessly watching her child

spent these last two lonely years, torn apart by the

it wasn't Aekeira who had to live with the misery,

hadn't stayed up countless nights wondering what her child might have

have been a strong, handsome boy or a

like

blankly, quake after quake,

GRAND LORD OTTAI

was

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

He turned-

in surprise. "Emeriel,

against the

exhaled heavily. He was so fatigued that his usually sharp senses had dulled. "How did you get in

bondmate said I could wait here

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

A true Urekai never forgets a