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.

gift. It is a forever

stuck my tongue out a little so Soren

“Or, a forever reminder of what

jumped into my throat and I nodded. I

“Soren,” Ashley called out.

the mist, her hands 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 Soren was an adult and perfectly capable

impulse quickly and

mad?” I

our mission if Ashely was pissed off. She might try to sabotage things or get in the way. As far as I was

Soren asked, raising an eyebrow at me. “Oh, she’s

waved off my

Lingering in one place in this fog

“Agreed.”

a little. It wasn’t much but just enough

gasped and covered my mouth as I stared

had crumbled since the night before. It was nothing but a

happened since last night? How had we

but it was still standing. What could have

this

temple, it is a pile of rubble,” Payne pointed

wasn’t like this

They knew what it was supposed to look

head, I started to move through

followers stuck close

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

to the other side of the temple and stopped dead. The sight of the cemetery made my stomach lurch. I covered my mouth and took deep breaths to quell the rising

the gravestones had been overturned or smashed into millions of

that, the

around, open,

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

hell…” Ashely came

sweep of the perimeter. Check for clues of what could

he have been expecting something like this or was he just that calm

were dark and he seemed somber,

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

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

grabbed my arm and dragged me to a corner of the

Ashley tagged along.

Keep an eye on Mila

said,

own investigation,”

even from where I stood, I could see what looked like

after Soren but Ashley grabbed

here,”

want to check out

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

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 understood that she wouldn’t disobey