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

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

forgive himself... just as she had

hers alone to bear, even if it was killing her slowly on the

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

hadn't survived the loss of

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had worked so hard to build was crumbling around her.

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

him while it destroyed his organs, all

even active, yet she

snorted. Did you ever truly fall out of

Emeriel was... terrified.

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

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

by the memories of

Aekeira who had to live with the misery, the

what her child might have looked like, how they might have grown.

child would have been a strong, handsome boy or

a piercing green like their father's, or the

quake after quake, raking her

GRAND LORD OTTAI

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

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

He turned-

jumping in surprise. "Emeriel, is that you?

princess stood leaning against the

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

I could wait here

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 Urai."

true Urekai never forgets a promise," he stated