Sold AS The alpha King's Breeder

Chapter 43 The Dungeon

*Theo*

“Where shall we take him, my lady?” one of the guards asked Sophia as I stood in front of them, wearing the torn remains of my guard pants.

Sophia puzzled over me, stroking her chin with one finger as she thought about what to do with me. I knew that Ciana was panicking back behind me in the garden area still, near where all of the shredded rose bushes lay, but there were guards between us.

“Take him down to the basement,” Sophia said. “I saw some kind of cages down there. Put him in one of those.”

I snickered, knowing she couldn’t legally hold me. After all, ‘she wasn’t yet married to the king, so she wasn’t the Luna Queen. She had absolutely no authority whatsoever to take me prisoner or hold me in a dungeon.

But I went along with her, all of it part of the plan.

“You can’t do that!” Ciana shouted.

I turned and looked at her, willing her to be quiet. She had to know by now that I was up to something, didn’t she? The panicked look on her face said otherwise.

Was she really worried about me? That silly woman…

It was nice to think that she might care a little bit about what happened to me, but in reality, she was probably just concerned that we’d never get back to our own reality if I was locked up somewhere and not able to help with our plan.

In the basement, I immediately noticed that it was not a dungeon. There were bars here and there that formed different areas, but I saw telltale signs that this room held lots of secrets. I had to wonder who had lived here before Sophia and what kinds of activities they might have used the area for.

It wasn’t to hold people as prisoners, not for long anyway. Of that, I was fairly certain.

“This’ll teach you!” one of the guards said as he shoved me behind a flimsy barrier of bars.

“Yeah, he’ll die down here! Starve to death!” another one laughed.

They all traipsed up the stairs, and I shook my head. Getting out of there would take me less than five minutes.

But that wasn’t what I had in mind.

by the way the stones were constructed both in the walls and the floors that this place wasn’t as solid as it was meant to appear to be. There was more to it than that, and I intended to discover exactly what it was, even if no one else understood my purpose. It might seem to be a distraction from the true matter at hand, but

and floor, looking at the different way that the rocks fit together, searching for some sort of weakness, a breach in the strong hold. A few areas interested me more than others. I thought

impulsive,” Ciana said as she rushed in, seemingly appearing on the other side of the bars out of nowhere.

me feel good. What the heck

addressed her. “It’s not as bad as you think.

the way that she was

me. “You’re

shook my head at her. “I

my brother and saw him traipsing over to the other side of the bars to stand beside her. “What in the

want to lash out irrationally at him. How dare he choose to be with another woman but think that

work in our favor if Warren

felt a darkness settle over my countenance. “Who do you think you are? If you’ve made the decision to abandon her, why are you even here now? Or… deep down, you don’t

a manner?” he asked me, coming a bit closer. He and Ciana were right on

others. I wanted to get out of there so I could teach him a lesson. No

first as her hands went shooting up in the air. Warren’s did, too, but

fell away-it was the floor! And it just so happened that both

the edge of the part of the floor that fell away, so I hoped I might be able to reach her or that she might

hand

That had not been what I had in mind

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*Ciana*

body ached, and my eyes refused to open at first. But somewhere nearby, there was

around me painful. I managed to

in a few enchanted forests in

high and smooth, with a few stalagmites and stalactites here and there. The rich sienna color glowed in the amber lights that flickered off and on all around us, and when I tried to get a sense of just how many fireflies were flickering as they fluttered by, I knew it would be impossible to count. There had to

or I likely would’ve drowned. Something told me I had been there a while. Looking straight up, I couldn’t see the hole I’d fallen

next to me, and it was clear that his injuries were worse than mine. His face was pale, and

little until he began to blink. Then, he opened his eyes, and I could see he was just

we?” he asked. “What