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

little so Soren would

smirked. “Or, a forever reminder

heart jumped into my throat and I

“Soren,” Ashley called out.

on her hips. Her

always seemed to interrupt when he and I were having a moment. Either that, or she was very protective of him and she

the case, I had the sudden urge to remind her that Soren was an adult and perfectly capable of taking care of

swallowed the impulse quickly and

she mad?”

She might try to sabotage things or get in the way. As far as I was concerned, Ashley and I were on good terms but I

eyebrow at me. “Oh, she’s

waved off my

going again. Lingering in one place in this fog

“Agreed.”

the path to the temple. As we got closer, the fog thinned out and cleared a little. It wasn’t much but just

I gasped and covered my mouth as I stared

had crumbled since the night before. It was nothing but a pile of ruins and

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

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

is this place?”

it is a pile of rubble,” Payne pointed

wasn’t like this last night,”

seen it. They knew what it was supposed to look

started to

his followers stuck

cemetery wouldn’t be disturbed. That

cemetery made my stomach lurch. I covered my mouth and took deep breaths to quell the

overturned or

than that, the graves were dug

tossed around,

the ground. They were bent over stone debris and piled on mounds of dirt. All of them charred and burnt to a crisp. Some were even still

hell…” Ashely

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

expecting something like

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

few of Soren’s

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

arm and dragged me to a corner of the rubble. I

Ashley tagged along.

here. Keep an eye

Ashley said,

own investigation,” Soren said

from where I stood, I could see what looked like a chasm that had opened up

to follow after Soren but

here,”

to check out that

enough trouble,” Ashley insisted. She held my

even more dissatisfied with her assignment to protect me and