BOUND TO THE BEAST : CHAPTER 1 – 10
BOUND TO THE BEAST : CHAPTER 1 – 10
King Orestus picked up his gavel and struck it hard on his desk. “Sold! From this moment on, Princess Aekeira belongs to the Urekais.”
“WHAT!?” The word, filled with shocked horror, escaped Emeriel’s lips before he could stop it. Then, he found himself running towards the center of the courtroom.
He fell to the floor, kneeling, his head bowed. “Please don’t sell my sister to them. Not to the Urekais! Please, your majesty.”
The king gave him a bored look. “It’s out of my hands now, Emeriel.”
It’s out of his… Emeriel couldn’t believe what he was hearing.
“You can’t let this happen. She’s your niece too! How could you do this!?” Emeriel wasn’t proud that his voice turned high-pitched like a girl’s, as he practically screamed.
But he didn’t care. “You know that a fate worse than death awaits her beyond the great mountain! How could you agree to sell her to them?”
“As if he has a choice,” scoffed the scarred Urekai, his deep baritone resonating with cynicism.
Emeriel whirled around to face them, anger blanketing his features. However, as he stared into those intimidating grey eyes with flicks of yellow, he couldn’t bring himself to give in to his rage.
He had read in one of the books that an Urekai had the power to take a life without physical contact. It might just be a rumor, but with his sister’s life on the line, he had no intention of testing that theory.
“I will go too. Where Aekeira goes, I go,” he said, lifting his chin defiantly.
Aekeira snapped out of her panic-induced trance, her eyes widened in terror. “No! What are you doing, Em?”
“I’m going with you,” Emeriel stated firmly.
Lord Vladya arched a perfectly shaped brow. “No. We have no need for you; we only want your sister.”
“I don’t care. Take me too. If you leave me here, I will always try to come to her. I will climb the great mountains if I have to!” Emeriel declared.
Lord Vladya laughed, but there was no humor in that cold sound. “Without the rite of passage, the great mountain will swallow you whole. You’ll never make it to the other side.”
Emeriel had also heard of that. “I’ll take my chances.”
“No! My brother is not coming,” Aekeira interjected, before turning pleading eyes to Emeriel. “Don’t do this, Em. I’m already doomed. I don’t want you to face the same fate!”
“If you come with us, you will also be taken as our slave. Urekai do not care if you’re male or female; you will serve in any way your master wants you, whether it’s in the mines or the cellar, on your back, bent over, or on your knees.
If you agree to be our slave too, your freewill ends today,” Lord Vladya spoke up again. He pinned Emeriel with a stare. “Do you know what it means to be an Urekai’s slave, little human? You’re a pretty boy; you will not lack masters to service.”
BOUND TO THE BEAST : CHAPTER 1 – 10
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