Sold AS The alpha King's Breeder

Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder Chapter 557

Chapter 57 : A Double Wedding?

*Lena*

Hanna of Red Lakes, the Luna Queen of Valoria, my mother, was the most emotionally controlled person I’d ever known.

And as her eyes grazed over the faded mark above my breast, the wound already healed and a muted white against my skin, her face didn’t change. She was expressionless, and her eyes gave me no hint of what she was thinking.

Her calmness in chaos used to infuriate me. Both of my parents were that way, although my father did have a flair for the dramatics from time to time. Mom? No. Even now, she remained stoic and unbothered.

Several moments passed before her eyes met mine again. I swallowed against the lump in my throat, tears threatening to spill from my eyes as she reached a hand out to cup my cheek.

“Why?” she asked so softly I had to read her lips instead of registering her words.

“I don’t know,” I whispered back, then hung my head in shame.

She walked over to me, tilting my chin with her fingers so I was looking into her face. “He didn’t say anything to any of us about it,” she replied.

She knelt on the ground before me, her voice a lullaby against the agony ripping through my heart. That tether that bound me to Xander went taunt for the first time since I’d left Morhan, searing through my body as I let my true feelings bubble to the surface of my mind.

“He said he wouldn’t,” I choked. “He said it was something for me to do, if I chose to. I didn’t… I loved him. Love… still do. But it hurts, Mom. Is it–is it supposed to hurt this bad?”

My makeup was running. I sniffled as she pulled me off the stool and into her chest, holding me like I was only a child and not a full-grown adult. She ran her hand over my back in a soothing motion that made me want to do nothing more than curl up in bed and listen as she read the book of folklore that always sat on my bedside table back home in Mirage.

“I’m so sorry,” I sobbed, but she shook her head and shushed me.

“There’s nothing to be sorry about. This was your decision to make–”

“I have no control over it, Mom. My emotions, everything is just–”

She pulled away from me and reached behind me for a tissue from the box on the vanity, lighting dabbing at my eyes. She gave me a kind, comforting smile.

to ten?” she asked, and I swallowed back the frustration that coursed through my body like a

them in the

Mom. I… I’m going to be twenty-one in a few months. What Xander made me feel in all… in all aspects… I felt like I could rip the world in half if I wanted to. Like, I could do it. I can feel it.” It was the brutal, honest truth. Whatever I’d done to Slate in the alley was only a glimpse of

broken away from her gaze. If anyone knew what this felt like, if anyone understood a shred of what

demons. Her mother had been something called a Dream Dancer, someone capable of traveling to what she called the “Spirit Realm,” a

the same, only much, much stronger as the years went by and she grew into adolescence. Before she was my mother, Hanna of Red Lakes had just been a reclusive, silent person, always lost

manifest. My grandmother had trained her to use them. And

could do much, much more. And I’d had my

she asked in the steadiest of voices, her hand

I done with my powers? What had I done with them, besides blast Slate into oblivion, or

to a lengthy explanation about who Slate was and how Xander had confronted him that fateful day on my way to class, a moment that had been a catalyst to everything that happened to us from

couldn’t bring myself to tell her about Crimson Creek. My family, everyone but George, thought I’d just spent the last six weeks near Red Lakes. No one questioned it. No one thought it was odd that Kacidra and

Creek was something I needed to handle myself, alone, if I needed to handle

of my power against Slate had nearly killed me, but the blood root had brought me back to life.

sent a jolt of unease rippling over my skin. He’d called me his

from my darkest nightmare was

looked up at her. She was still kneeling in front of me, her hands still wrapped

gently untangle my knitted fingers. Soft, white rose petals fell from the palm of my hands and

visions?” she asked, her voice taking on a serious note as she stroked my wrists,

“You dream danced?”

had it. I couldn’t make sense of it. I don’t

she whispered, leaning in to press her forehead against mine. “It’s

this

mate…. The mark had no

whispered, feeling nothing

“but after you spend some time at home, maybe a few weeks.” She paused, gently wiping the tissue beneath my lashes as I looked into her eyes. “I know

look of absolute heartbreak on

were about to cry herself.

strain between us–a mother and daughter, the same as she’d been with her own mother, long ago now. I’d never known her mother, a woman named Leera.

had ever