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

could she ever tell him, a male who so desperately desired children, who had suffered the loss of his two children, that she had carried his third, only to lose it

just

bear, even if it was killing her slowly

knew why she was fighting hard to protect her heart, 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

the loss of

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she had worked so hard to build

she had buried were clawing

all in an effort to save her life. Just the thought of

wasn't even active, yet she

you

Emeriel was... terrified.

to preach, easy to

cold lavatory, helplessly watching her child

last two lonely years, torn apart by the memories of a life that never

Aekeira who had to live with the misery,

her child might have looked like,

would have been a strong, handsome boy or a beautiful, radiant

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

ahead blankly, quake after quake, raking

GRAND LORD OTTAI

wanted was to collapse

it yielded results, as it had

He turned-

in surprise. "Emeriel, is that you? You startled

the

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

said I could wait here for you,"

studying her 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

course. A true Urekai never forgets a promise," he