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.

a secret Emeriel would carry

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

would never forgive himself... just as

bear, even if it was killing her

why she withdrew from everyone, why she was always angry. No one knew the extent of her pain. No one knew why the old Emeriel had died so the new, hardened one could live. That

hadn't survived the loss

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everything she had worked so hard to build was crumbling around her. The

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

inside him while it destroyed his organs, all in an effort to save her

yet she was falling for him

Did you ever truly fall

Emeriel was... terrified.

was easy to preach, easy to say,

Aekeira hadn't stood in that cold lavatory, helplessly watching her child slip away in a pool

the memories of a life that never had the

Aekeira who had to live with the misery, the gaping

have looked like, how they

strong, handsome boy or a beautiful, radiant

eyes have been a piercing green like their father's, or the deep blue of

stared ahead blankly, quake after quake,

GRAND LORD OTTAI

study, utterly exhausted. All Ottai wanted was to collapse onto his bed and sleep

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

He turned-

Ottai cursed, jumping in

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

was so fatigued that his usually sharp senses had dulled. "How

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

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,

never