Sold AS The alpha King's Breeder

Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder Chapter 596

Chapter 96 : Submitting to the King

*Lena*

Black double doors made of iron opened wide as the vampire guard pushed me into the dining hall.

My toes curled as the smell of blood hit me, and I closed my eyes, hanging my head to stop myself from gazing upon whatever bloody sight lay before me.

I heard the doors close behind me, locking shut. Heat rippled over my skin, and the roaring of a massive fire thundered in my ears.

“Open your eyes,” came a rich male voice that echoed through the hall.

My lashes fluttered as I opened my eyes and stared down at my feet, trying to get a sense of the room and the ageless vampire who was seated yards away, commanding me.

When I finally had the courage to look forward, I wasn’t overcome with shock like I had been when I first gazed upon Narcissa. There was no metallic taste and feel of ancient magic, and no intense, unearthly pull like the one that made it hard for me to tear my eyes away from her translucent skin and silver hair.

Like Narcissa, Nikolas was incredibly tall and lean, graceful in every moment he made. But his hair was an icy platinum, similar to my own, and his skin had a creaminess to it that hers hadn’t possessed.

He looked shockingly human, compared to his sister.

Violet eyes flaked with crimson looked me up and down, but I didn’t flinch or cower beneath his gaze.

He wasn’t what I’d been expecting. He didn’t ooze power. He didn’t scare me.

I straightened my back, squaring my shoulders as I took a shallow breath and looked around the room. Long, narrow, endless stone–there wasn’t a single decoration save for the dozens of thick, tallow candles that burned along the center of the table and along the mantel over the hearth that stretched the entire width of the room.

He was seated directly in front of the hearth, and some of the peachy color of his skin could probably be attributed to the red and amber flames that danced behind him. He didn’t rise to his feet as I took a single step in his direction.

“Beautiful,” he cooed, his eyes flashing with an emotion I couldn’t quite read. Hunger was there, obviously, for more reasons than one. But he looked… impressed.

urge to bow, to kneel before him as I tucked my hand behind my back and held his gaze. A man was slumped in a chair next to him, his

an almost seductive whisper as he ran a long, pale finger

said through gritted teeth, “and food… water that doesn’t freeze

demands and yet you haven’t

Kiern as well. But as I watched him settle back against a high-backed chair, his eyes taking

powers were if he didn’t share the same ones as his sister. He was immortal, yes, but

his death involved playing his

was crumbling. The warmth of the room was seeping into my bones, replacing the icy chill that had numbed the pangs of hunger, dehydration, and the distress I

on moments before I was brought to the dining hall. They

twelve feet long. I had to squint over the candles to see

strange than anything. He looked no older than myself, but his

large bowl of chopped fruit was laid in front of me. I looked down at it, then up at Nikolas, letting my

I hadn’t been given a fork

leaning back in his chair with a goblet of blood, or maybe even wine, in one of

I could to stop myself from moaning with relief as the taste of it hit my tongue, and I

along the side of the room. The same man he’d been feeding on earlier

You said he was

it,” he said with a shred of coldness to

another. I watched him as I chewed, trying to get

given the family tree my Uncle Troy had found in the library in Winter Forest. There were dozens upon dozens of spindly branches hanging

finished off the first bowl of fruit that many a woman had gone through his ice trial and had sat in this same chair. They’d watched the guards drag a body across the floor, and

in those eyes of

eye contact with Nikolas as I held out my

knife,” I demanded, but a sly smile twitched on

need a knife,” he

my terror as I obeyed, but my skin crawled as I came within touching distance of the Vampire King–the god. He took my outstretched hand in his, his touch like ice. He bent his head, running

my skin for a moment, his breath ragged

they were even there at all. I was also the youngest of the women who he’d taken, at least from what I knew. I hadn’t come into my shifter powers yet, and