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

desired children, who had suffered the loss of his two children, that she had carried his

himself... just as

burden was hers alone to bear, even if it was killing

angry. No one knew the extent of her pain. No one knew why the

she hadn't survived the loss of her

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everything she had worked so hard to build

feelings she

the pain of venom inside him while it destroyed his organs, all in

even active, yet she was falling

voice snorted. Did you ever

Emeriel was... terrified.

was easy to preach, easy to say,

lavatory, helplessly watching her child

the memories of a life that never had the chance to

with the misery, the gaping wound

sister hadn't stayed up countless nights wondering what her child might have looked like, how they might have grown. Who they

been a strong, handsome boy or a beautiful,

their eyes have been a piercing green like their father's, or

ahead blankly, quake after quake,

GRAND LORD OTTAI

was to collapse onto his bed and sleep for a

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

He turned-

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

the wall, shrouded in shadows, eyes

so fatigued that his usually sharp senses had

said I could wait here for you," she replied, eyes

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

course. A true Urekai never forgets a