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

little so Soren

forever reminder of what

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

“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

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

the impulse quickly and leaned toward

she mad?”

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

eyebrow at

off

probably get going again. Lingering in one place in this

“Agreed.”

thinned out and cleared a little. It

my mouth as I stared

before. It was nothing but a pile of ruins

happened since last night? How had we

still standing. What could have caused it to collapse so

this place?”

is a pile

this last night,”

seen it. They knew what

head, I started to

his followers

That was where I’d found all the useful information

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

the gravestones had been overturned or smashed into millions

that, the

tossed around,

and piled on mounds of dirt. All of them charred and burnt to a crisp. Some were even still

the hell…” Ashely came up

sweep of the perimeter. Check for clues of what could cause this,” Soren ordered,

expecting something like this or was

upset at all. His eyes were dark and he seemed somber, like it wasn’t the first time he’d seen something like

nodded and grabbed a few of Soren’s

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. It was clean

dragged me to a corner of the

Ashley tagged along.

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

said, nodding.

own investigation,” Soren

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 up underneath

tried to follow after Soren but Ashley grabbed

staying here,” she

I want to check out that chasm,” I

already caused enough trouble,”

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