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.

thank you for the gift. It is a forever reminder of what I put myself

so

forever reminder of what you

heart jumped into my throat and I

“Soren,” Ashley called out.

on her hips. Her dark

to me again 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

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

impulse quickly

she mad?”

way. As far as I was concerned, Ashley

an eyebrow at

waved off my

in this fog isn’t wise,” I suggested to help diffuse the

“Agreed.”

little. It wasn’t

my mouth

night before. It was nothing but a pile of

How had we not

was still

is this

is a pile of

wasn’t like this last

both seen it. They knew what it was supposed to look

I started to move

followers stuck

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

it to the other side of the temple and stopped dead. The sight of the cemetery made my stomach lurch. I covered

been overturned or smashed into millions of

that, the graves were dug

around, open,

of dirt. All of them charred and burnt to a crisp. Some

hell…” Ashely came up

of the perimeter. Check for clues

something like this or was he just that calm

eyes were dark and he seemed somber, like it wasn’t the first time he’d

grabbed a few of Soren’s followers. They disappeared into the

find anything in this mess. Whoever, or whatever, had done this would cover their tracks. This wasn’t a taunt or

me to a corner of the rubble. I was too shocked

Ashley tagged along.

Keep an eye on Mila

of course,” Ashley said, nodding. “Where are

do my own investigation,”

there but even from where I stood, I could see what looked like a chasm that had

to follow after Soren

here,”

to check out that

trouble,” Ashley insisted. She held my

made me 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.