Sold AS The alpha King's Breeder

Chapter 52

For the next couple hours, I sat in a chair and watched the rain coming down outside, thinking about all of the time I had spent with Ethan.

With every flash of lightning in the distance, memories of him flashed before my eyes. I thought of the gentleness he’d shown me when we made love.

My hand automatically went to my abdomen where the child was growing.

I couldn’t believe that someone would show me tenderness, make a baby with me, watch me give birth to their child… and then kill me.

But that was Ethan’s plan, and that meant I had to go.

Even if that meant I needed to trust the likes of Madalynn, who had told me herself she didn’t want her child to be second in line to the throne. My baby’s life was hanging in the balance. But I had to take the gamble and try.

A knock on the door pulled me away from the window. Tonight hadn’t been quiet for me at all.

Vicky entered, walked toward me, and wrapped her arms around my neck.

“I wish tonight wasn’t happening,” she said, staring at me with tears in her eyes.

My heart dropped. How did she know?!

“Vicky…” I tried my best to smile. “To…tonight?”

As she pulled back from me, she gave me her own confused look.

The engagement party.”

1 silently let out the breath I was holding and nodded my head.

“Well,” I said, “nothing can be done. Ethan has made his mind up on what he wants. It was for the alliance. He didn’t do anything wrong.”

“I know he cares about you.”

“It doesn’t matter if he does or not. I will never be enough for him, Vicky. I’m just a breeder.”

Vicky shook her head in disagreement, but she couldn’t find the words to comfort me.

“Thank you for everything you have done for me. I’ll never forget it, Vicky.”

goodbye. We’ll get through this, Rosalie. We still have time. We

her in the eye.

and fixed herself in a nearby mirror. “Now I have to go down to this stupid dinner

to make a mess of things,”

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that no one was going to be checking on me that close to the beginning

brought me. It was floor length, so I could wear sneakers under it –

pack much. After all, I was allegedly going to a party, not leaving the building. Besides, like Damian said, I wouldn’t need much,

I did my makeup and put my hair up. The beautiful necklace Ethan had gifted me was still

close I’d thought I’d

to match my gown was a little larger than the typical clutch one might carry

placed the ultrasound pictures I’d gotten from Estrella inside of a plastic bag so that they wouldn’t get wet, and added some medications, including my sleeping pills. Finally, I added a bottle of water and a

on, I was technically ready to go, but there were a couple more things

desk, I took out a pad of paper and a pen. Thunder boomed outside of the window,

so difficult to compose. I couldn’t just leave without saying anything to

“Vicky and Talon,

that me being gone will come as a shock, but I have finally taken my life into my own hands. I will forever be grateful for everything

I respect your choice. So please don’t hold on to any pain over

folded the letter in half, wrote their names on the outside, and set it

would not

a deep breath, my eyes focused on the storm raging outside again, my

complete the message for Ethan. Finally, with an air of finality, I rose from my seat, ready to get on with the

Whatever that might be.

guards were surprised when I opened

“Miss Rosalie?” Samuel questioned.

as if it made all of the sense in the world

slightly as he

is trying to be a friend to me.

give us permission to

I should be allowed to attend. He was only making the

waved a hand. “Ethan will be there. If he doesn’t want me

wait for further approval. I knew I needed to get going if I was going to make it to

trailing me, as usual. Because it wouldn’t make much sense for me to have not used the restroom before I left my room, I whipped up some tears when we were almost

matter, Rosalie?” Samuel asked, his