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.

is a forever reminder

stuck my tongue out a little so Soren would

a forever reminder of what you

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

“Soren,” Ashley called out.

her hips. Her dark

he and I

an adult and perfectly capable of taking care of himself

the impulse quickly

she mad?” I

to sabotage things or get in the way. As far as I was concerned, Ashley and I were

Soren asked, raising an eyebrow at me.

waved off

one place in this fog isn’t wise,” I suggested to

“Agreed.”

and cleared a little. It wasn’t much but

and covered my mouth as

It was nothing

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

was still standing. What could have

this place?” Ashley

a temple, it is a pile of

this last

it. They knew what it was supposed to

my head, I started

followers

the cemetery wouldn’t be disturbed. That was where I’d

temple and stopped dead. The sight of the cemetery made my stomach lurch. I covered my mouth and took

gravestones had been overturned or smashed into

that, the

around, open, and

debris and piled on mounds of dirt. All of them charred and burnt to a crisp.

Ashely came up

perimeter. Check for clues of what could

Could he have been expecting something like this or

eyes were dark and he seemed somber, like it

nodded and grabbed a few of Soren’s

had done this would cover their tracks. This wasn’t

to a corner of the rubble. I was too shocked

Ashley tagged along.

me and turned to her. “Stay here. Keep an

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

my own investigation,” Soren

the 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

tried to follow after Soren but

here,” she

check out that chasm,”

trouble,” Ashley insisted. She held my arm

pleased to be around me again. She was even more dissatisfied with her assignment to protect me