BOUND TO THE BEAST SEASON 3: CHAPTER 1 – 10
BOUND TO THE BEAST SEASON 3: CHAPTER 1 – 10
You will shelter and protect the two females whom we return to you on the morrow, with everything you hold dear.
Since I awoke from five hundred years of madness, one brought on by your people, I have had one thought and one thought alone. To descend upon the human lands like a storm of ruin.
I still consider it, to be quite honest. But do not give me another reason to believe it is a good idea, for let me tell you, King Orestes, I am running out of excuses not to declare war on the humans.
Protect the princesses, for they are the treasures of Urai. If so much as a drop of their blood is spilled, your forests will rise against you.
Your mountains will crumble under our number.
Your rivers will run dry beneath the stomps of our boots.
Your cities will burn.
Your fields will wither under fire and ash.
The screams of your people will be the chorus that heralds your kingdom’s fall.
Not a single stone of your citadel will remain unscorched.
This is your one and only warning.
I am not merciful, and I do not forgive.
𝘽𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝘿𝙖𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙠𝙖𝙞 𝙑𝙞𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙫 𝙉𝙖𝙚𝙡𝙯𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙝, 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙆𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙐𝙧𝙖𝙞.
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King Orestes lowered the scroll, his face drained of color.
Aekeira had sunk into one of the empty chairs during the reading, her shaky legs unable to hold her any longer. Emeriel sat beside her, just as still.
“It has been four years since I received this,” King Orestes said in a strained voice as he carefully placed the letters back on the shelf. “Not once have I had a good night’s sleep since then.”
Turning toward them, his gaze was sharp, searching. “I have asked myself over and over: How on earth did these females, sold as slaves, garner the favor of the two most powerful Urekais that ever existed? How did they become ‘treasures of Urai’ to the extent that I receive personal letters from their rulers?”
Aekeira glanced at Emeriel. Her sister’s face was ashen, paler even than King Orestes’s, staring ahead, into nothingness. She didn’t blink. She didn’t move.
“They signed their full names,” King Orestes added. “Do you understand what that means? As a young lad, my father told me, that in Urekai history, their full names are considered sacred.”
“They are not spoken aloud unless under the gravest of circumstances or to convey a serious message. And here,” he gestured toward the shelf, “they not only sent separate letters, they signed them with their full names.”
They sent letters for us. Sent them, before our return. Why hadn’t Aekeira thought of it before?
Of all the reasons she imagined for King Orestus’s change, this had never crossed her mind.
“I want to send you both to the breeding houses.” His voice hardened. “But there is nothing I want more than to punish you, Emeriel, for your web of deceit in this kingdom.”
“Living disguised as a boy when you are, in fact, a girl?” he spat, voice rising, making Aekeira flinch. “I wish I could nail you to that cross outside!”
Aekeira’s breath caught, and Emeriel tense beside her, but neither spoke.
BOUND TO THE BEAST SEASON 3: CHAPTER 1 – 10
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