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

me

Lena began to hurl insults, their faces growing redder and redder as fury rustled the sand between them. At first, I didn’t see much of a resemblance between

my voice above the sound

saw it then, the shape of their eyes.

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 facial features still striking, but they didn’t hold weight to the unique beauty of her

She always had been, and she always

ripping her

three years

between them.

each other, and laughed. Some of the tension left my shoulders as they continued to

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

what I understand,” Lena said, wiping a few tears from her cheeks. “He went rogue, a long time ago now. It… it damages the soul, you 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

totally unbelievable, not after the magic

her post. I thought it was

last few White Queens died young, from what we know, up until my grandmother,” Charlie said with a shrug. “Lena

this,” she whispered, and I could hear the pain laced through her voice as she spoke. She was hugging herself as if she was cold. I wanted to reach out and take

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

she’d known this, all

if I’m not, and everyone’s been

Charlie and I

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

the beach, sending a blue-black haze over the group of us. In the soft purple light,

flakes of blue around her irises

dress took on a

at her best. I could see who, and what, she was clearly

been thinking by leaving

plan on stepping down from her throne?” Lena asked

on Charlie, every line and curve of her

out his breath, shaking his head

no one going to tell me?” she continued, her voice catching in her

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 thick belt

my bottom lip, then sighed and extended my hand to

go back up to

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

room,” I said as calmly as possible, flexing my hand

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

least,” he said, tilting his head toward Oliver, who

arm and we were off, walking side by side down

the crushing weight of birthrights and unwanted responsibilities pressing down on

be okay,”