BOUND TO THE BEAST : CHAPTER 1 – 10
BOUND TO THE BEAST : CHAPTER 1 – 10
Once his hair is let down, it’s hard to hide his gender at all. Which was why it’s always up in a ponytail at all times except in private.
However he couldn’t afford to get his hair brushed now because he needed to go hunting. The king loved his streaks, and if Lord Murphy would rat on him, he would need all the bribe he could get.
Aekeira laid on the bed, Emeriel tucked her in and she closed her eyes. But she wasn’t sleeping, “Em?”
“Mmm,”
“Sometimes I wish…” she trailed off, swallowing tightly.
Anyone else would think she’d fallen asleep, but Emeriel knew better, “What, Keira?”
“Sometimes I wish I could leave this godforsaken Kingdom.” A single tear slipped from her eyes, “Anywhere else is better than here.”
Long after Aekeira slept, Emeriel still sat beside her watching her. Was some other kingdom really better than Navia?
This might be a terrible kingdom with an even more terrible king but according to the rumors, it rained everywhere.
Most kingdoms were just as bad. Hell, some kingdoms come close to competing with the Urekai lands beyond the Great Mountains.
He would do anything to give Aekeira a better life than this, even if it meant leaving Navia. He would probably leave the rest of his life under this fake identity that has become his whole world.
No matter how much he hated being male, being female in this world was not an option.
Apart from the deadly punishment he would get for living a lie all his life, if he doesn’t get killed, the king might just sell him off to Dayan—the worse pleasure house in Navia.
So no, there was no future of him. His existence was bleak at best. But he would do anything to give Aakeira a better life. His sister was all he had in the world.
Finally, he forced himself to get up. Emeriel slowly walked to the door and closed it behind him.
As he walked out of the palace grounds, as usual he drew attention like flies, and murmurs flies behind as he walks by. Amongst those words that flew by as he passed, he could hear smatterings of it.
“He’s so pretty,”
“It’s the feminine prince,”
“No man should have a hair that gorgeous”
Emeriel ignored them all, feigning relaxation and nonchalance as he move forward, his head held high. Yet, his sense remained on alert.
As he made his way towards the lonely route that led to the woods, his chest doubled like it always did whenever he walked by these routes, and he doubled his alertness.
A person could easily be attacked on these route if a person weren’t too careful. He might be the child of the king’s only brother, but that probably meant nothing in the face of desperate criminals.
When he arrived at the palace in the evening with his meats, he was almost at his door when he sighted the king’s soldiers.
BOUND TO THE BEAST : CHAPTER 1 – 10
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