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. Don’t take this

tell me to

redder as fury rustled the sand between them. At first, I didn’t see much of a resemblance between

need–Lena, hey! HEY!” I barked, raising my voice above the sound of their

me, each breathing heavily. I saw it then, the shape of their eyes.

loving family, but she hadn’t been able to escape the blatant fact that she was different. Her eyes were such a pale gray, catching every color around her. Her hair was white and straight, her

always had been,

it was ripping her to

spent the past three years

now?” I asked, looking between them. “And

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

hope not,” Charlie sputtered. I glared at him, tapping my fingers on my thigh while I waited for them to

from your body. Grandma used a flower called the Moonlight Lily to bring him

unbelievable, not after the magic berries and crystals and all of that in my own

Queen could step down from her post. I thought it was something they were until their

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

and I could hear the pain laced through her voice as she spoke. She was hugging herself as

f*cking Moon Goddess reincarnate, Lena,” Charlie pressed, and hearing him speaking the words hit me like a freight train. I’d known, of course, that her differences meant something unearthly and divine. Her untested powers weren’t just

known this, all her

if I’m not, and

and

a drunken

and a violet shadow crept over the beach, sending a blue-black haze over the group of us. In the soft purple light, Charlie was simply enveloped

blue around her irises giving depth to her opal-like gaze,

the wine-red dress took on a

best. I could

I been thinking by leaving my mark on

plan on stepping down from her throne?” Lena asked after a

Charlie, every line and curve of her

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

tell me?” she continued, her voice catching

Charlie replied. He looked uncomfortable, and he glanced up at the narrow set of stairs leading back up to the bluff where that palace sat atop it, the twinkling lights of the garden just visible through the

along the inside of my bottom

go back up to

not feeling well,” she said without looking at either of us,

I said as calmly as possible, flexing my

met my eye, tears lining her lashes. She took my hand, and I lightly squeezed her fingers. Her face softened at my touch, and that bond between us quivered. Charlie cleared his throat, tipping his beer toward

with him, for a while at least,” he said, tilting his head toward Oliver, who was now

of my arm and we were off, walking side by

it not been for the crushing weight

to be okay,” I said