Sold AS The alpha King's Breeder

Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder Chapter 561

Chapter 61 : Loosen Up, White Queen

*Xander*

Fire was burning behind Lena’s eyes, and it wasn’t the reflection of the sunset turning her pale gray irises a fiery red, no. Poor Charlie. He looked utterly confused at her sudden wrath. She looked exquisite in her blood red gown, but with her cheeks and eyes flaming, she looked more like a demon born from ash and embers than a regal princess.

“Lena, let’s just take a step back–” I tried to say, but her gaze flicked to me, her mouth pulling at the corners to form a tight line.

“What the hell are you talking about, Charlie?” she snapped.

Charlie arched his brow, shifting his weight as he opened and closed his mouth like a fish. “Mom isn’t going to be a White Queen–”

“But she is a White Queen!”

Lena looked incredibly young at the moment. She was ready to start stomping her foot, her fists clenched and trembling at her sides. I painfully realized, for the first time, what she was up against, and why she’d been fighting tooth and nail against her family for her entire life.

None of this was up to her. This was her blood, the very air that she breathed.

“Not like… not like you are–” Charlie said in a low warning tone, his eyes flicking to me, then back to her. He tilted his head in her direction, trying to physically get his point across.

“Because of her powers?” I asked, crossing my hands over my chest.

Lena sniffed indignantly, swallowing hard with her jaw set, and flexed. Charlie eyed me up and down, then gave me a single tight nod.

“So you know?”

“A bit,” I answered. “What exactly does this mean for her? She’s being crowned–”

“I have no idea how any of this works,” Charlie bit out before Lena could cut in, holding his hand out to silence her. “I just know our grandpa isn’t in the best of health and is refusing help from everyone. Our grandma wants to step back from her duties and spend what time she has left with him, you know.”

“Is it really that serious?” Lena said, her voice breaking.

Charlie only shrugged, looking into the depths of his bottle of beer.

“I was under the impression he couldn’t die, you know, from what our moms told us,” she said.

“What?” I said, shaking my head as if I had sand stuck in my ear. “I’m sorry, I don’t think I heard you correctly–”

“You did,” Lena replied, her words sharpened like a blade. “Welcome to the fantasy that is our family, Xander.”

Charlie smirked, not making eye contact with either of us.

“I really don’t understand what you meant by that,” I pressed, my mind reeling. “Can you, uh–”

“It doesn’t matter, Xander. Why do you even care?” Lena snapped.

Lena.

tell me to chill

and redder as fury rustled the sand between them. At first, I didn’t see much of a resemblance between Lena and her family members. But seeing her and Charlie go toe

HEY!” I barked, raising my voice above the

then, the shape of their eyes. They were the same, but

hadn’t been able to escape the blatant fact that she was different. Her eyes were

different. She always had

ripping her to

wonder she’d spent the past three years pretending

between them. “And are

Some of the tension left my shoulders as they continued to laugh, their eyes wide

I glared at him, tapping my

from your body. Grandma used a flower called the

unbelievable, not after the magic berries and

step down from her post. I thought it

young, from what we know, up until my grandmother,” Charlie said

pain laced through her voice as she spoke. She was hugging herself as if she was cold.

I’d known, of course, that her differences meant something unearthly and divine. Her untested powers weren’t

this,

I’m not, and everyone’s

are,” Charlie and I said

between the three of us, broken only by a drunken chuckle from Oliver,

a blue-black haze over the group

Lena’s best light. Her eyes didn’t darken–they glowed, the flakes of blue around her irises giving depth to her opal-like gaze, like two moons nestled

wine-red dress took on a purple hue, a cloak

was when she was at her best. I could see who,

I been thinking by leaving

from her

eyes fixed on Charlie, every line and curve

cheeks, then blew out his breath, shaking his head slowly from

tell me?” she continued, her voice catching in her

been told, okay?” Charlie replied. He looked uncomfortable, and he glanced up at the narrow set of stairs leading back

inside of my bottom lip, then sighed

go back up

looking at either of us, her

I said as calmly

and I lightly squeezed her fingers. Her face softened at my touch, and

least,” he said, tilting his head toward Oliver, who was now grinning like an i***t in his drunken

hand in the crook of my arm and we were off, walking side by side down

been exceedingly romantic had it not been for the crushing weight of birthrights and unwanted responsibilities pressing down on

okay,”