Sold AS The alpha King's Breeder

Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder Chapter 593

Chapter 93 : I Didn’t Look Back

*Xander*

I’d never used my powers before, not like this. That shadow of darkness was a mystery to me still, its presence life-long, but dormant. I’d heard the stories passed down from generation to generation.

I’d been old enough to witness my uncle, who showed much more of a promise to the powers of the Dark Lord than I ever had, overcome the soul-sucking darkness in his veins as he laid his heart before a woman with the blood of the White Queens.

My powers were minuscule, a faint fluttering in my body. But when Lena had marked me, well, suddenly I could feel those powers itching to get loose, to take over, drawn out by her own.

And when I watched more of those gray, molted creatures come out of the forest, followed by their handlers who were more human than hybrid beasts but not by much, I felt my powers surge as anger and betrayal swept over me like a rogue wave.

Lena had planned this. She’d stalled our trek back to the gorge until we’d run out of daylight. She’d cut her hand open, leaving a trail of blood for the vampires who worked under King Nikolas’s rule to find us.

And now she was trying to send me back to the pack lands while she went on some foolish hero’s journey into the Night Realm, alone.

I think the f**k not.

I screamed at her, throwing the full force of my power forward just as a spray of light erupted around us, splitting the sky in two.

I wasn’t a match for her strength, and I had been just a second too late in casting my shadow of darkness like a net over her. Her cry of surprise, then terror, cut through me like a knife as a winged hybrid landed behind her, its oddly human hands outstretched and closing in on her.

“Close it!” I screamed, drawing one of the wooden-bodied blades from my belt as several vampires surrounded me, their eyes burning crimson beneath their black hoods. “Close the f*****g portal!”

I could feel the force of it behind me, invisible save for a magnetic rippling that made the landscape beyond look somewhat distorted. I could step through and save myself. That’s what she had wanted, after all.

But she was gone in an instant, the clouds above my head breaking apart as the hybrid disappeared back into the darkening night.

She was my mate–my pregnant mate. I wasn’t going to let her sacrifice herself to the f*****g Vampire King.

I kept my eyes on the vampires, who were inching toward me as the last shred of day waned and night fell over the forest. Their hybrids waited behind them, varying in shape and color. I could still see the wolf in them, and I felt a pang of regret as I gazed from hybrid to hybrid, wondering who they had been before they’d been captured, taken, and turned against their will.

The vampires eyed me, sizing me up. They lipped dry, cracked lips and ran their tongues along their long, pointed teeth.

None of the vampires in Brune had looked like this. They had been beautiful, kind, and flushed with healthy, lively color.

were gray and shriveled, their eyes red and black

starved for the purpose

off the vampires and their hybrids with nothing but my jaw and claws. I knew about their speed because Costas had been more than happy to show me his own. I couldn’t outrun them. I had to fight. I had to make a stand, even if

Lena!” I screeched, although it was unlikely she could hear me, wherever the hell she was

all one by one and pray to the Goddess that the

not with the pack lands

and I slashed it with my knife. The smell of burning flesh wafted through the air as it screeched and rolled away. One after another, they tried me, lunging and baring their teeth. I had the upper hand until they ganged up on me,

their teeth into me. The scaled jacket cracked their teeth over and over as I swung my blade wildly,

to one, and after half an hour of this dance, I suddenly felt like I was being stabbed repeatedly

as the vampires attacked my legs. The leather that covered my pants wasn’t thick enough to totally thwart their assault, and once they had me on the ground I knew,

over. The portal is open. You

Once they’d gotten me on the ground, it was nothing for them to tear my armor from my

on by a thread as I turned to look at the hybrids. I noticed them backing away,

Why? What was happening?

move. The only feeling left inside of me was the steady beat of my powers being drained away with

dead? I couldn’t feel anything. I couldn’t see anything other than the stars above my head as

bastard king. She would; I didn’t doubt it. I’d be mad at her for a long time, but I had forever to get over it–eternity. Where would I go next? What was waiting for me on

closed my eyes and accepted death, but only momentarily. Air rushed back into my lungs, choking me awake. I opened my

I’d been wearing beneath the layers of armor were shredded and barely hanging from my body. I sat up, my breath catching

could barely see anything. I couldn’t even see the rippling portal in

me a muted view of the damage done to my body, and the damage I myself had inflicted on the half

over my legs, face down and covered by his cloak. I shot backward, scooting as far as possible away from the scene, panting as adrenaline coursed through

body of the vampire shattered against my swift movements, settling into

were dead. All

lines of darkness coursing beneath my skin, and I knew

the dark powers that ran through my veins. That soul-sucking force had poisoned them,

a laugh, holding my bare arms up to the light of the stars. These creatures

I swayed violently and fell back to my knees as my vision went black. I was weak, but not weak enough to lay there in the open. The hybrids had retreated–to where I didn’t know. But they

did whatever the hell she was planning on doing. I could go through the portal and not only warn the pack lands about what was happening but also gather reinforcements to help rescue their princess. I could go back to

could go get my

trunk of the tree. I looked around the forest, then up at the sky above, which was starting to turn a pale blue in

as

here, that he’d only been in the Night Realm for a week when almost six weeks had passed in the pack lands. We’d been here for three days, maybe