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

Chapter 338

PRINCESS AEKEIRA

Aekeira sat by the window, stitching as she hummed an old lullaby. Sunlight spilled pale and thin through the lattice, allowing her to enjoy the quiet and peace.

Until Emeriel entered.

She moved like a sleepwalker. Eyes swollen and red, face pale with exhaustion. There were dark circles under her eyes, and her lips trembled even as she tried to hold herself together.

“Em!” Aekeira dropped her sewing at once, rising quickly to her feet. “Are you alright? Why do you look like-?”

Her sister crossed the room, collapsed into her arms, and started bawling. The kind where the sobs are harsh and violent as if dragged from the soul.

“Speak to me, what’s going on!?” Aekeira was panicking more with every sob. “You’re frightening me! You know you shouldn’t be crying like this; you’re pregnant for light’s sake!” Now she was crying too, unable to hold back. “Em, please!”

Still, Emeriel only wept.

She cried as though there was no end to her pain. Sobbed as if no hope remained in the world.

Aekeira gave up, and only held her. She sank back onto the bed, drawing her sister down with her, rocking her and crying with her, as though they were children again.

She had no sense of how much time passed. At last, the sobbing eased. Subsided into torn breaths and hiccups.

“I’m broken, Keira…” Emeriel said in a whisper of defeat.

“How can you say that about yourself?”

“Because it’s true,” she looked at Aekeira with swollen eyes. “I am broken… and I don’t know if I’ll ever heal.”

Tell

haltingly, Emeriel did. She reminded Aekeira about that night months ago, and how it’s still affecting

much I try to stay in the present, the moment he is inside me, it’s like a switch has flipped, and I’m back in your former chamber, begging the beast for mercy.” She sobbed. “Heaven knows I would do anything to avoid thinking of that night. I don’t even want to, yet I can’t seem to escape it. I long to feel my male again, but I can’t because all I see are the moments I was completely at his mercy, unable to escape, pleading for just a moment’s reprieve as I bled everywhere, yet couldn’t get one. When he hurt me so effortlessly, not caring about his strength or how torn I already was inside, he just kept

Aekeira who was weeping now after that full, rushed rant.

keep this from me?” She drew her sister closer. “When I looked at you that next morning, I k something that

something has to be done. And that’s what is

pulled back, looking her younger sister in the eyes. “What do

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a decision to keep him sane, in order to protect him, myself, and our unborn child: She began crying again. “It’s not a very pleasant decision, Keira”

GRAND KING DAEMONIKAI

gates as dusk surrendered to night, Ottai

effort. One of the newly–bonded ravens had missed its mark entirely, vanishing

corridors alone and entered his bedchamber,

her back turned

When he climbed into the bed beside her, she stirred and turned to face

she said

you feeling? Did you

Madam Livia gave me some herbs that helped me keep them

and she looked

over the folds of her gown. “The head healer came today. He delivered the remainder of my medicines today, and he told me some

“What things?”

“Please, don’t punish him, it’s who asked

frowned. “Sure, I don’t mind. You needed to know.”

happens when they’re not… sated.” She averted her eyes. “I’ve been thinking about