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 put myself

a little so Soren would

forever

throat and I nodded.

“Soren,” Ashley called out.

mist, her hands on her

Ashley might really like Soren. She always seemed to interrupt when he and I

was an adult and perfectly capable of taking care of himself and making his own

swallowed the impulse quickly

mad?”

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

raising an eyebrow at me.

waved off

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

“Agreed.”

path 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. They were veiled and

gasped and covered my mouth as I

the night before. It was nothing

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

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

is this place?”

temple, it is a pile of

wasn’t like this

They knew what it was supposed to look

head, I started to move

followers stuck close to

cemetery wouldn’t be disturbed. That

temple and stopped dead. The sight of the cemetery

gravestones had been overturned or smashed into millions

the graves

tossed around, open,

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

hell…” Ashely came up

a sweep of the perimeter. Check for clues of

been expecting something like this

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

nodded and grabbed a few of Soren’s followers. They

sank. I doubted they would find anything in this mess. Whoever, or whatever, had done this

a corner of the rubble.

Ashley tagged along.

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

said, nodding. “Where are

do my own investigation,” Soren said

even from where I stood, I

Soren but Ashley

here,” she

to check out that chasm,” I

enough trouble,” Ashley insisted. She held

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 understood that she wouldn’t disobey or let