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.

her. “Chill out, Lena.

me to chill

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 to toe, well… the similarities weren’t physical, that was for sure. But the Gray

hey! HEY!” I barked, raising my

heavily. I saw it then, the shape of their eyes. They were the same, but Charlie’s

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

had

it was ripping her to

past three years pretending to

looking between them. “And are you

other, and laughed. Some of the tension

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

know, strips it from your body. Grandma used a flower called the Moonlight Lily to bring him back, but in order to do that she had to use her blood, giving him her life force. They’re connected now. If they die… well, it’ll be

after the magic

didn’t realize a White Queen could step down from her post. I thought it was

we know, up until my grandmother,” Charlie said with

voice as she spoke. She was hugging herself

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 rare; they were totally unheard

she’d known this, all

not, and everyone’s

are,” Charlie and I said in

of us, broken only by a drunken chuckle from Oliver, who was still asleep

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 in darkness, his features

Her eyes didn’t darken–they glowed, the flakes of blue around her irises giving

skin glittered, and the wine-red dress took on a

she was at her best. I

thinking by leaving my

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

Charlie, every line

cheeks, then blew out his breath, shaking his head

tell me?” she continued, her

at the narrow set of stairs leading back up to the bluff where that palace sat atop

the inside of my bottom lip, then sighed

go back up to

well,” she said without looking at either of us, her eyes fixed on the cloudless, twilight sky

I’ll take you to your room,” I said as calmly as possible, flexing my hand

lining her lashes. She took my hand, and I lightly squeezed her fingers. Her face softened at my

tilting his head toward Oliver, who was now grinning

the crook of my arm and we were

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

okay,” I said to