Sold AS The alpha King's Breeder

Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder Chapter 675

Chapter 22 : Does That Seem Fair?

I stared at Soren for a long moment, frozen in place.

Scoffing, I threw my head back. Of course, last night was just a means to an end for him. He would use it to his advantage now and find out what was in the box.

I’d made the deal that he would protect me but now that we’d sealed it, he could use whatever leverage he wanted. He could tell me that if I didn’t show him what was in the box, he wouldn’t help me.

Just because I’d given him my body didn’t mean he had to respect that or honor it. With how casually he was treating last night, he clearly didn’t realize how big of a deal it was for me.

It was just his way of using me. He got his own physical satisfaction, like any man would want, and now he was going to satisfy his curiosity, and his own ambition if he wanted what was in the box.

Every time he tried to hide his intentions, I saw the truth come through.

He was no different than any other man.

Had last night been a joke?

Soren probably saw me as nothing more than one of “those women” he’d referenced who showed up at his door in the middle of the night.

And maybe I was no better…

I glared at the floor and looped my arms around my waist. I’d been the one to offer my body as payment. But I had truly wanted there to be an alliance between us, a real one.

Soren seemed to have other plans.

My jaw tensed and I kept glaring at a knot in the hardwood floor. If I had any sense at all, I’d run from Soren now and leave him with the bitter memory of the night we spent together without ever fulfilling his true desire, to look into the box!

Sighing, I relaxed my arms and opened my eyes fully. Perhaps, there was another way to salvage this situation.

Last night was full repayment for the times he’d saved my life. From now on, whatever happened between us could be purely business.

“Have you already looked in the box?” Soren asked, pulling me from my thoughts.

Thinking fast, I nodded. It was a lie, but I needed to keep the upper hand in this situation.

“I did look,” I said, offering no further detail.

Soren arched an eyebrow at me and I smiled coyly.

poison. My wolf hadn’t awoken yet, and wouldn’t for a few more years. There were bounty hunters closing in from

to manipulate and use Soren, I might as well establish myself as the

use him right back. We could use each other until one of us came out on top. One of us would eventually outsmart the other. I’d have to play this game very carefully in

for his own purposes, I could put him in harm’s way without feeling guilty. That made this entire deal

remained calm and composed. His eyes were still

he was trying to

questions are, so seeing it won’t give you

shook his head. “Don’t

I kept

cocky, don’t you think?” I challenged, arching an

of the smartest, most strategic shifters I’d encountered. Taking advantage of him came

just because he was smart but because he was powerful and had a whole band of rogues that followed him.

doing… Well, I had a feeling I’d rather turn myself over to Alpha Chandler than find out

lip and gave Soren a

lips and set his book down. I could no

in the box?”

dress tightened slightly around my curves and

hair over my shoulder and laughed playfully. I was thinking on my feet, trying to distract him and come up with a lie

is something so powerful that it could turn this world upside down, of course. Whoever gets their hands on it might even be able to… control the world, or destroy

eyebrows shot up into

across the room to him, swaying my hips

fixed on me as I moved. It was hard to tell what he was thinking but I knew he wouldn’t be devouring me with his gaze if he wasn’t transfixed

so close that if I took a deep breath, my breasts practically brushed against his chest. Smiling coyly, I lifted my eyes to his, half-lidded under my

and temptation. “Only

and pressed my finger to Soren’s bare chest. His eyes widened as I trailed my finger down the centerline of his torso, between his pecs and his abdominals.

and he let out a nearly inaudible grunt. I wasn’t sure if he

his gaze, still giving him an innocent

looked right through me. I could practically feel his gaze wrap around my heart. It was like he saw straight into my soul and knew what I was thinking, feeling, and planning. I felt like he could peel away my lies and knew exactly

and my breath hitched, but I leaned a little closer, trying to play it off like it was

thought of me. He was older and much more experienced and

under the watchful eye of an adult? Did he even take me seriously at

a moment. Blinking, I quickly recovered and I smirked at Soren again, maintaining my

answers. I didn’t need him

his lips curving

to chat about it all day?”

pressure me more into explaining or demanding that I show him

was baffling. I hadn’t even looked in the box and somehow, I’d convinced him I knew what was in it and how it

it,” I said,