That Prince Is A Girl The Vicious King's Captive Slave Mate by Kiss Leilani

Chapter 269

Emeriel’s tears flowed freely now, impossible to contain. “Please stop. Seeing you like this is tearing me apart.”

A third tear fell, his face contorting in anguish. “I am so sorry-”

“Do not apologize, please.”

“I am so, so, so sorry, Emeriel. This was all my fault. It was all my-”

“Stop blaming yourself!” she hissed fiercely. “Every misfortune that happens is not your fault, do you hear me? It was meant to happen! It was unavoidable! We must try to move past it! We mourn what could have been, but we cannot blame ourselves endlessly.”

Another tear fell, and she wiped it away, her own tears flowing like a river. “We are living beings, Daemon. We are bound to make mistakes, and sometimes… accidents happen. Some things are simply meant to be. Some things cannot be prevented.”

As she spoke, her words resounded deeply within her.

All these years, she had blamed herself. Some nights, in the darkness, she had even blamed him. She had hated them both for what happened.

“Casting blame solves nothing,” she continued in a softer tone. “It only makes the pain worse. How can we heal and move forward when we let guilt take the reins?”

“Riel… it hurts.”

“I know.” She wiped his tears on her sleeve. “It is okay, let it out. I’ve got you, my dearest Beloved. Let it all out.”

She pressed his head to her midriff, her arms encircling him passionately. As his body trembled in her hold, she stroked his hair soothingly, petting him.

“It is okay to release it all. Do not give guilt the power it craves. Guilt peels away the salves on a wound, leaving it raw… scarred… never to heal.”

The wind swept through the meadow, tugging at their clothes, whispering through the grass.

soaking into her

Emeriel. Run far, far away from me.” Yet he held her tighter. “I should not have stopped you from leaving

saying such ridiculous things, I am done running,” She threaded her fingers through his hair. “And you, Your Grace, cannot run from me. Because this time, I will chase you to the ends of the earth if I

impossibly closer. The raw emotions

I hadn’t rejected you the way I did… if I hadn’t sent you away, none of this would have happened.”

say this, but you did the right thing sending me away, and I’m so sorry it took so long

that.”

started to shake his head, but she held on, her thumb tracing circles against his skin. “You needed to find yourself! needed to find myself. I was a slave, and you had been feral for centuries.

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Chapter 269

not choose. Someone from the very species that took your family, who has the potential to replace what you

but she

have communicated better,” she reasoned, brushing her hand against his jaw. “It would have helped greatly. Neither of us was ready for the severed bond or the pain it brought. But that separation was necessary. It forced us to grow. To understand what we truly wanted. We needed that time apart, Daemon. We needed to find ourselves so we could choose

her middle, and Emeriel resumed stroking

that had clung to her heart for years began to ebb, taken over by a sense of release she hadn’t known she

consoling him, she found

for so long–the self–recrimination and what

lighter. Freer. The burden

slipped away unnoticed. She lost track of how

time. This heartbreaking moment where she stood and watched her male break apart

didn’t

her waist ached from the strength of his grip. Emeriel

hold loosening as he pulled back.

“Do you

in a

eyes soft, a hint of gratitude shining through the

need to thank me. Not