Sold AS The alpha King's Breeder

Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder Chapter 594

Chapter 94 : Daughter of a Queen

*Xander*

“ZEKE!” the woman screamed as I wrestled her captor into the ground.

I glanced up at her, confused as she dropped to her knees and swatted me repeatedly with a canvas sack that felt like it was filled with rocks.

The man, apparently named Zeke, was hissing and moaning beneath me as I shoved my elbow into the back of his neck and held one of the wooden knives against his ribs, ready to drive it through his chest.

“Get off of him, you maniac!” the woman cried, beating me with her bag of rocks.

“He’s a vampire!” I protested, throwing my weight against him as he continued to struggle.

The woman looked more annoyed than anything. Her skin wasn’t pale at all, not like his. It was a rich golden brown, and her eyes were the palest, brightest blue I’d ever seen. Her hair was covered by the hood of her black cloak, but a few rogue, shadowed curls fell over her forehead as she glowered at me and wound her arm back, slamming the sack of rocks into my shoulder.

“He’s my brother!” she spat, winding up to hit me again.

Zeke huffed a breath, straining as he tried to lift his head.

“He doesn’t look like your brother,” I said stupidly.

She glared, gritting her teeth as she reached into her bag and removed a rock. So, I’d been right.

She tossed it at me but missed, and it ricocheted off the tree and hit her in the chin. Her high-pitched screech was enough for me to loosen my grip on Zeke, and he struggled out from underneath me before I could regain my hold on him.

He had me on my back in an instant, his canine teeth snapping down from his gums in two long, pointed fangs. His amber eyes glowed, momentarily possessing me as I looked up at him, unable to tear my eyes away from his face.

“Holy s**t,” I said, unable to stop the words from rolling off my tongue.

He furrowed his brow at me as his sister came up beside him, looking down at me with marked disapproval in her eyes.

“What?” Zeke said, likely surprised I hadn’t screamed or begged for mercy.

He wasn’t a sunken, shriveled gray demon from the depths of hell like what had assaulted me. If he’d been wearing finer clothes, he easily could have been a member of Costas’ court.

But the initial shock I’d felt when I looked at his face, and the rich ebony hair, made me realize what had actually caught me by surprise.

“You look like Kiern,” I stammered, and he immediately let me go.

The woman opened her mouth in a perfect O shape, her eyes flicking to her brother’s face as the male vampire took a staggering step backward.

“How do you know the Queen of Brune?” the woman asked, her voice a symphony of sound.

She wasn’t a shifter. I would have been able to smell that on her. But she wasn’t a vampire, either. At least, not totally. She had a familiar look about her, but her features were striking and abnormal. She had a power about her I couldn’t explain, something that caused me to

just

doing in Brune?” she asked, a hint of fire in her voice. She looked defensive,

ran his tongue along his lower lip, arching a brow as he waited for

of the night around us was fading into a rich, purple twilight, and I noticed the vampire flick

to my tattered clothing and bite marks coating my exposed

were when I left a day ago–a little over

woman asked,

from advancing any further toward me

Do I smell?” I teased, which neither

no wolves here,”

can prove it to you,” I

clothes could rip any further without falling off

low

doing here?” the woman asked.

even know your name,” I countered, crossing my arms over my

chewing her lower lip as she glanced at Zeke,

whispered, the name barely audible. I

“Eye-what?”

tell us what you’re doing out here barely clothed and covered in

I’m looking for the Vampire King, King Nikolas. He has

into a laugh, and she threw her head back, wiping tears of mirth from

“You’re not serious–”

I reached to the velvet sack of bloodstone on my belt and emptied the

Zeke asked sharply, his

I said, closing my hands around the bloodstones. I had no idea of their worth, but it was all I had

he give you these?” Zeke’s tone

trying to make sense of the anger flaming behind his eyes. Ianthe cleared her throat, nudging the vampire with her elbow

don’t have time for this conversation. It’s nearly daylight, Zeke. We

remained on mine for a moment before he let out his breath and ground his teeth, then nodded, turning

to my feet. “Please, how do

disheveled appearance before glancing at her brother, who had tucked his long hair behind his ears and was

not much. We

charge. Zeke surrendered, rolling his eyes toward me

“What’s his problem?”

forward, looking at me over her shoulder, “I am perfectly capable of defending myself and my honor. If you so

Vampire King,” I said as I raised my hands in

find it in your current state. Come,

the narrow valley. Zeke was far below us, and as I followed Ianthe downwards, he disappeared in a shadowed crack in the

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small spread of stale bread and a few pieces of jerky. I couldn’t name the meat. It didn’t