Predatory Marriage (Web Novel)

Chapter 302 – Isha (2)

Translator: Atlas / Editor: Regan

Many Kurkans died after they were taken as slaves. This child would share that fate. One last time, the King looked down and met those bright golden eyes.

They still shone, filled with the ferocity of beasts, and the King felt a shiver down his spine, followed swiftly by a flash of rage. How could he feel fear before a child? He couldnt understand it, and it made him want to immediately wring the boys neck.

But the King suppressed these emotions. To show his anger was to admit his weakness. The child would die anyway. He would never see those golden eyes again.

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The childs name was Isha.

He never knew his parents faces. He was born during a civil war within Kurkan, and his parents were drawn into it to fight against the purists, only to be defeated.

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The price of defeat was death.

His parents sacrificed their lives to save him, and their golden-eyed baby was taken in by other Kurkans. His life was not easy; he was an orphan, scavenging the battlefields to survive. Several times he escaped persecution from fanatical purists before he was finally captured, and sold to a slave trader like so many other half-breeds.

He was meant to die. But Isha survived, because the slave trader did not keep his promise to the King of Kurkan.

Instead, the slaver killed another Kurkan child of similar size, throwing him to wild animals to be torn to pieces. The ravaged remains were sent to the King, as proof of Ishas death.

“I finally have pureblood, I cant kill him.”

The slaver had mistaken him for a pureblooded Kurkan, and Isha made no attempt to correct him. The man likely wouldnt believe him even if he did try to explain that he was a half-breed.

It was a cruel night.

Isha heard the screams of the child who died in his place. As he looked up at the countless stars scattered across the night sky, he could still smell that childs blood. Ishas life had been preserved by his death.

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“May you rest like the sand of the desert…” he whispered, feeling helpless.