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.”

will. Tell

She reminded Aekeira about that night months ago,

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 taking and taking.” Her eyes grew wider and wider, and she took her head even wilder. “That night plays in my head, and it’s driving me insane. It’s driving us apart, and it’s killing him inside. Yet, I can’t seem to move past it, Keira. My body opened for him during heat, and it remains ready to receive him, yet my mind feels closed off. I need

now after

her sister closer. “When I looked at you that next morning, I k something that terrible would not pass without leaving a scar,

don’t know,” Emeriel sobbed. “But until I do, something has to be done. And

her younger sister in the

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myself out, I must make a decision to keep him sane, in order to protect him, myself, and our

GRAND KING DAEMONIKAI

the fortress gates as dusk surrendered to night, Ottai trailing at

not have taken so long, but the young hawk refused to be contained, fighting the falconer’s every effort. One of the newly–bonded ravens had missed its mark entirely, vanishing into the gathering dark. By the time they returned

the archway before heading toward Mabblewood. Daemonikai ascended the corridors alone and entered his bedchamber, already

his bed, her back turned

soundlessly, setting aside his belt and mantle, then stripped down to his nightclothes. When he climbed into the bed beside her, she stirred and turned to

you,” she said with

you feeling? Did you eat better today?”

did. Madam Livia gave me some herbs

eyes bothered him, and she

head healer came today. He delivered the remainder of my medicines today, and he

“What things?”

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

“Sure, I don’t mind. You needed

what happens when they’re not… sated.” She averted her eyes. “I’ve been thinking about everything and… the truth is, we can’t bear