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

Chapter 445:

“Thank you for coming back,” the grand king said, huskily.

“Are you… are you not angry that I did?” Emeriel stared at their joined hands. “I know you sent me away because you didn’t want me here.” He was looking at her like that again. As if seeing her for the first time. The sparkle in his eyes grew brighter. Then, quietly, “I didn’t… at that time.”

Emeriel nodded. That much she knew. “Did you hear about the attempt on your life?” she asked, changing the subject.

“That too,” he released her hand, his face hardening. “Ottai has already begun the investigation.”

“Yes. If the assassin was indeed acting under orders, we all hope the culprit is found.” Emeriel tugged at her hand. “If you’ll excuse me, Your Highness.”

He took his time releasing her. But when he did, Emeriel made her escape.

“Emeriel?”

Those butterflies in the pit of her stomach fluttered again. She paused at the door but didn’t turn.

for saving

two years ago. It’s only right I return the

later,” he said

couldn’t have walked away fast

GRAND KING DAEMONIKAI

did not return the

Nor the day after.

mended itself, his strength gradually returned. As the days passed, he began to feel like his old

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wounded, but further symptoms of progression had mercifully ceased. There was no sign of

Daemonikai hated most about illnesses was the confinement. Ottai and his

was not to rise until the last of his herbs and potions had worked their magic. Until

people sent him gifts—bunches of medicinal fragrance plants, cuts of rare meat. A famine ravaged the land, yet they still gave what little they had to their

not have existed if Daemonikai had stepped up as the ultimate ruler he was and stopped