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.

you for the gift. It is a forever reminder

stuck my tongue out a little so Soren would know I was

“Or, a forever reminder of what

jumped into my throat and

“Soren,” Ashley called out.

through the mist, her hands on her hips. Her dark glower

occurred to me again that Ashley might really like Soren. She always seemed to interrupt when he and

her that Soren was an adult and

impulse quickly and

mad?”

or get in the way. As far as I was concerned, Ashley and I were on good terms but I didn’t want

raising an eyebrow at me.

waved off my

one place in this fog isn’t wise,” I

“Agreed.”

thinned out and cleared a little. It wasn’t much but just enough that

my mouth as I stared

crumbled since the night before. It was nothing but a

had we not felt the

but it was still standing. What could have caused it to collapse

is this place?”

a temple, it is a pile

wasn’t like this last night,” I

and Soren had both seen it. They knew what it was

I started to move through

and his followers

be disturbed. That

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

the gravestones had been overturned or

that, the graves

tossed around, open,

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

the hell…” Ashely came

a team and do a sweep of the perimeter. Check for clues of what

something like this or was he just

at all. His eyes were dark and he seemed somber, like

of Soren’s followers. They disappeared into

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

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

Ashley tagged along.

turned to her. “Stay here. Keep an eye on Mila

Ashley said, nodding. “Where

own

stood, I could see what looked like a chasm that had opened up underneath the temple. A massive hole in

follow after Soren but Ashley grabbed my

staying here,” she

I want to check out that

You’ve already caused enough trouble,” Ashley insisted. She

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 order from Soren and I