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.

“Well… thank you for the gift. It is a forever reminder of what I

stuck my tongue out a little so Soren would know

a forever reminder of

throat and I

“Soren,” Ashley called out.

on her hips. Her

that Ashley might really like Soren. She always seemed to interrupt when he and I were having a moment. Either that, or she was very protective of him and she didn’t

that Soren was an adult and perfectly capable

impulse quickly and leaned toward

she mad?”

I was concerned, Ashley and I were on good terms but I didn’t want her emotions to

an eyebrow at me. “Oh, she’s

waved off

going again. Lingering in one place in this

“Agreed.”

to the temple. As we got closer, the fog thinned out and cleared a little. It wasn’t much but just enough that I could see the stars overhead.

covered my mouth as I stared at the

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

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

the stablest of structures but it was still standing. What could have caused

is this place?” Ashley

not a temple, it is a pile of rubble,”

like this

seen it. They knew

my head, I started to move

his followers stuck

luck, the cemetery wouldn’t be disturbed. That was where I’d found all the useful

temple and stopped dead. The sight of the cemetery made my stomach lurch. I covered my mouth and took deep breaths to quell the rising

had been overturned or smashed into

the graves

tossed around, open, and

They were bent over stone debris and piled on mounds of dirt. All

hell…” Ashely came up beside

for clues of what could cause this,” Soren ordered, his voice calm and

glanced at him. Could he have been expecting something like this or was he just

dark and he seemed

few of Soren’s followers. They disappeared into the

heart sank. I doubted they would find anything in this mess. Whoever, or whatever, had done this would cover their tracks. This wasn’t a taunt or a statement.

to a corner of the rubble.

Ashley tagged along.

to her. “Stay here. Keep an eye on Mila and remain alert,”

of course,” Ashley said, nodding.

my own investigation,”

temple. There wasn’t anything left there but even from where I stood, I could see what looked like a

to follow after Soren

staying here,” she

to check

trouble,” Ashley insisted. She held

realize that she wasn’t 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