Sold AS The alpha King's Breeder

Sold As The Alpha King’s Breeder Chapter 577

Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder Chapter 577

Chapter 77 : The Realm of Blood and Fury

*Xander*

I was in Hell. That was the only way to describe this place. Henry walked in front of me as we made our way down a narrow path etched into the side of the violently spiked mountain toward the darkened cave that I had seen from the mountain’s peak. It was dry here and absolutely freezing. Henry was dressed in what looked like a cape he’d stitched together with a variety of garments, rags, and dried leaves.

“The second the sun rises, you’re gone. Do you understand?” he said beneath his breath. He hadn’t even turned to look at me; he kept his eyes forward as we both clung to the fragile shale mountain face and crept closer to the cave’s opening. I was bursting with questions for him, but also with fear. The screeching sound… Goddess, the wail of it ate away at my bones.

“What’s making that noise?” I hissed.

Henry shushed me firmly, shaking his head. The cave was only yards away, and as soon as I’d reached the threshold, I felt a burst of warm air trickling out from inside.

But it was pitch black. Henry disappeared into the darkness with no light to guide him. I followed the sound of his breathing into the shadows, feeling along the wall as we descended into its depths and turned corner after corner. Eventually, the tunnel began to lighten, an amber glow in the distance gradually illuminating the walls of the cavern.

A warming fire sat in the center of a wide, shallow room of sorts. There was no other entrance or exit except the one from which we had entered the cave. I looked around as Henry shuffled forward. I had to bend my head to fit inside and immediately felt claustrophobic. I noticed the mirrors then, which were no more than cracked shards of glass, propped up on rock shelves along the walls of the cavern. I turned to look into the tunnel and noticed the glass continued, likely all the way to the entrance of the cave itself.

“They glow in the dark; otherwise, it’s hard to see them,” Henry said gruffly as he broke a few pieces of gray wood into pieces and stoked the fire.

“See what, exactly?”

“You know what,” he replied in a low growl. I ran my tongue along my lower lip, glancing at the area. There was a bed made of nothing more than a pile of dried leaves with a tattered blanket laid over it. A few glass bottles littered the area, as well as an oil lantern and a shovel. He’d hung a shirt on a spike on the wall, the shirt itself nothing more than shredded fabric.

“Where are we?”

“Do you really want to know?” Henry asked, sitting back with his legs crossed as he watched the fire, poking it with a stick.

“Of course, I do,” I ground out, crouching by the fire. Muted screeching drifted through the tunnel and I turned my head toward the sound, chills running up my spine. “What the hell is that?”

“I don’t know,” he gruffed. “I’ve never stayed out at night long enough to see one.”

“Is this where you’ve been the entire time?” I pressed, sitting back on my ass with my arms crossed over my chest. The fire was large enough to send ripples of warmth into my chilled bones. I felt a pang of hunger for the first time in what felt like days, and looked around the room for any signs of food, but there were none.

“Yes, but not always here, in this place. I’ve been here for about a week.”

“Where did you spend the last several weeks, then?”

He looked up at me, his eyes twinkling in the fire. He choked a laugh and shook his head.

“Time has no consequence between this realm of death and the realm of the pack lands, Xander. Or are you going by your true name now?”

I narrowed my eyes at him.

“Don’t look so surprised,” he continued before I interjected. “I took one look at you and knew exactly who, and what, you were. You came to the pack lands looking for a White Queen, didn’t you?”

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around.” That

feeling settled in my gut as I watched him gaze into the fire for a moment before reaching for a burlap sack and fishing around inside of it. He tossed me a chunk of dry, stale bread. I nodded my thanks as I broke

and tucked the

here?” I asked after several minutes of

She went to the opening looking for Ben and me…. She

“Gone where?”

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with

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and lures them in. And if he can’t lure them, he sends his cronies to do his dirty work. Jen wasn’t always what she was in the end. She was

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his face dancing with shadows cast by the flames. “He’s looking for Lena. He’s starting

“Why?”

the local pub instead of hiding in a cave

of bread, swallowing it painfully. “What

first of their kind came through the barrier between the realms to settle in what is now Crimson Creek. It was after a war in this realm, from what I understand, between the former king and

he

tone dropping an octave as he gave me a harsh, unforgiving look of disapproval. I nodded once,

f**k, really?

to her realm to take her away and

original plan? Don’t play me for a fool, boy. Your powers are written all over

I sneered.

followers before he gave in to mortal death. Gifted with their own realm, can you believe it? Not even Morrighan possessed such powers. But that gift of a new realm, where his followers could worship him without the threat of the followers of the Goddess and the White Queen warring with them came with a cost, did it not? You, Xander, a descendant of Lycaon himself. You inherited the curse bestowed upon him by his own mother after his treachery–that darkness. That

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