Sold AS The alpha King's Breeder

Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder Chapter 505

Chapter 7 : Another Beautiful Man

♦Xander*

I’m not sure what I saw looking in our window. Every single hair on my arms was standing on end as I stood on the porch, squinting into the pitch-black night. A soft breeze was rustling the grain in the distance. It was overcast. The entire area was bathed in nothing but blackness.

I’d seen eyes. I knew that much. And they had been looking past me, trying to catch a glimpse of Lena.

I leaned on the railing, gripping it so tightly the muscles of my arms flexed with tension. I looked down the pathway toward the bunkhouse, narrowing my eyes at the single light that was on inside.

Had some creep snuck out of the bunkhouse and peered into our window, not expecting me to be awake?

I hardly ever slept. Not deeply, at least. I’d spent the last four hours listening to Lena’s labored breathing as she suffocated herself in her sleeping bag. I’d finally reached over and unzipped it, just enough for the skin of her neck to be exposed to the cool air in the room.

And when I’d turned back around, I’d seen it. Two eyes looking right at US through the window. Had they been glowing? Or was it only the fact I’d been on the edge of sleep that made them look that way?

I looked back over the open field once more, glaring into the night.

“She’s mine,” I whispered, hoping whatever or whoever it was that was lingering nearby was close enough to hear me.

I locked the door on my way in and opened every cabinet, looking for something to cover the window with. I found a hammer, but no nails or tacks. That didn’t matter to me. I searched around the room and settled on the wobbly side table next to the armchair and broke one of the legs off of it, pulling out two nails and closing them in my fist.

“What the hell are you doing?” Lena was standing in the doorway of the bedroom, now dressed in an oversized tee shirt. Her legs and feet were bare, which sent a thrill through me as I rose to my full height.

“I told you, you were going to get too hot.”

She ignored me, crossing her hands over her chest and stepping out of my way as I sidestepped around her to get back into the bedroom.

“Why did you break that table?”

“I needed nails.”

“For what? Why were you outside?”

“It’s the middle of the night, Lena. Stop asking me so many questions,” I murmured, holding the nails between my teeth as I measured the width of the window with my hands. I looked around the room, settling my gaze on the pillow I’d been using only minutes before. “Hand me that pillowcase.”

“Why?”

“We need a curtain. Just do it.”

She gave me a skeptical look, but to my surprise she followed my directions, sliding the pillowcase off the thin, useless pillow and handing it to me. I held it against the wall and drove one of the nails through it, and then again on the other side of the window, so the pillowcase covered the window entirely.

couldn’t you have just asked for curtains in

at it, deciding it would be best to sleep with it, or at least have it nearby in case whoever was looking in our window decided to do anything they would likely come to regret.

“Fine,” she whispered.

exhaustion in her voice. I waited for her to climb back into her sleeping bag before I sat on the edge of my bed myself, sliding the

enough for me to turn to look down at her, noticing the

“Why? Are you scared?”

mess with me,

over to pat her shoulder. She flinched away from

resting on my chest. I couldn’t find the nerve to close them, not

feel well tomorrow. I could nap, perhaps, knowing Lena would be in the

last thing I envisioned were

gave me, like I was being

it or not… whether she

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♦Lena*

of the other people working at Radcliffe farm over breakfast in the bunkhouse, which

as I sat in the dining room, picking at my plate of bacon and

menacing as I peered at him over the rim of my coffee mug. I raised my brow at

what his deal was last night, but he was still acting super weird. But I didn’ t know him that

she began to gather the dishes. I rose, drinking the last of my coffee, and caught her meeting Xander’s gaze. He gave her a wry smile, and she blushed, fluttering her eyelashes at

setting my coffee cup down and turning toward the door, where Bethany was

to go see what we’re dealing with?” she said, holding the door open for me

we were walking along a well-beaten path through the fields of grain, most of which had gone to seed. We were heading

wolfsbane, hummingbird sage, and thyme. I could see the patches of herbs as we crested a shallow hill, their perky green leaves rustling in

are those dark patches on the other side of the fence?” I asked as we walked down the hill. Bethany glanced

“We don’t know.”

I asked. I couldn’t tell by how far we were from the spots that dappled the landscape outside of the property line. It could

more about it than I can,” she answered,

had a walkie-talkie on her hip, and it crackled with static, someone’s voice coming through the speaker. She motioned me forward, pointing to the old man who

Henry, noticing the look of concern on her face as she turned from US and began to walk back up the hill.

said, his back still turned to me. I stopped walking, standing ten or so yards away from him. “The house, I mean. It’s falling to pieces like the rest of ’em.” Henry rose, wiping his hands off on his

me up and down, narrowing his eyes. I bit the inside of my cheek as I tucked a lock of hair behind my

said, giving him my

you are,” he said. I pursed my lips and walked forward, gingerly stepping between the herbs as I made my way closer to Henry. He had a basket next to him filled with several bushels of sage and a few large valerian

will be, officially, when I graduate in

grunting in response. I colored, then knelt down beside

you were having issues with the

and pointing to the valerian roots. “They’re supposed to look like that,” he said, then opened his palm, showing me the valerian roots

seeing the spindly roots blackened and withered. I looked up at him, thoroughly confused.