Sold AS The alpha King's Breeder

Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder Chapter 682

Chapter 29 : Blackfire

My heart fluttered and I gasped. The bracelet was beautiful, regardless of the reasons why Soren had given it to me.

As much as I wanted to fight it, I really couldn’t deny that I was feeling something for him. Something more than what I wanted to feel.

How had I let myself fall for Soren?

I kept trying to tell myself the bracelet was a bribe or a leash of some kind, but my heart kept fluttering and kept telling me that it was a romantic gesture. Was that what I wanted it to be?

Thoughts raced through my head and I wondered if I had offered my body to him to make this deal or if I’d really wanted to share that with him.

How could this have happened?

He was so cold, indifferent, and infuriating. He was controlling and distant. That didn’t exactly spell out warm and fuzzy feelings…

But the moments we’d shared and how he was always looking out for me, it had softened my heart without me even knowing it.

Swallowing, I tried to pull my hand away but Soren’s fingers tightened around my forearm. He whisked the bracelet out of my hand and deftly clasped it around my wrist. The cool metal touched my skin and it hung there, elegantly.

“It looks good on you,” he said softly.

I held my arm up in the street light. It had flickered back on after the crow flew off. The bracelet really was pretty.

I pulled it closer and looked at the charm. The petal was oddly shaped. I thought it was a curved teardrop but it was a little more intricate than that with smaller, secondary petals flaring out of the base.

It almost looked like a little campfire. But it was black.

“I thought I should at least get you a ‘thank you’,” Soren said, cutting into my thoughts.

“A thank you?” I asked, arching an eyebrow at him.

What did he have to thank me for?

Again, my heart started to pound in my chest. I swallowed and willed with all my strength that Soren wouldn’t hear my heart.

“Yes,” he confirmed without elaborating.

Apparently, he wasn’t going to tell me what he was thanking me for.

I touched the little charm. “What kind of flower is this from?”

Soren’s eyes widened and he pursed his lips. “That is a blackfire petal.”

“Blackfire!?” I asked, gasping. I stared at the little charm again.

The poison I’d taken was called Blackfire but I didn’t know it was made from a plant or a flower. Especially not one that looked so beautiful. How could something that unique and gorgeous be so dangerous?

“This is where the poison comes from?” I asked.

“It is. The flower is very rare, so the poison is too. This charm was even harder to come by,” he said.

Soren grinned and covered the bracelet with his hand.

It is

so Soren would know I

forever

jumped into my throat and I nodded. I couldn’t do

“Soren,” Ashley called out.

mist, her hands on her hips. Her dark glower fixed directly

occurred to me again that Ashley might really like Soren. She always seemed to interrupt when he and I were having a moment. Either that,

sudden urge to remind her that Soren was an adult and perfectly capable of taking care of himself

impulse quickly and leaned toward

she mad?”

mission if Ashely was pissed off. She might try to sabotage things or get in the way. As far as I was concerned, Ashley and I were on good terms but I didn’t want her emotions to get in the way

raising an eyebrow at

waved off

probably get going again. Lingering in one place in this fog isn’t wise,” I suggested to

“Agreed.”

temple. As we got closer, the fog thinned out and cleared a little. It wasn’t much but just

covered my mouth as I

crumbled since the night before. It was nothing but a pile of

How had that happened since last night? How had we not felt the tremors of the

hadn’t been the stablest of structures but it was still standing. What could have caused

this

temple, it is a pile of

like this last

it. They knew

head, I started

followers stuck close

be disturbed. That was where I’d found all the useful

sight of the cemetery made my stomach lurch. I covered

gravestones had been overturned or

the graves were

were tossed around,

the ground. They were bent over stone debris and piled on mounds of dirt. All of them charred and burnt to a crisp. Some were even

the hell…” Ashely came

of the perimeter. Check for

expecting something like

at all. His eyes were dark and he seemed somber, like it wasn’t the first

a few of Soren’s followers. They

or whatever, had done

and dragged me to a corner

Ashley tagged along.

“Stay here. Keep

Ashley said,

own investigation,”

original entrance of the temple. There wasn’t anything left there but even from where I stood, I could see what looked like a chasm that had opened

after Soren but Ashley grabbed

here,”

want to check out that

idea. You’ve already caused enough trouble,” Ashley

at all pleased to be around me again. She was even more dissatisfied with her assignment to protect me and guard me. But it was an order from Soren and I understood that she wouldn’t disobey or let