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.

the gift. It is a forever reminder of what

out a little so Soren would know

smirked. “Or, a forever

heart jumped into my throat and I nodded.

“Soren,” Ashley called out.

stormed through the mist, her hands on her hips.

She always seemed to interrupt when he and I were having a moment. Either

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

the impulse quickly

she mad?” I

far as I was concerned, Ashley and I were on good terms but I didn’t want her emotions to get in the way of what

asked, raising an eyebrow at me. “Oh,

waved off my

in this fog isn’t wise,” I suggested

“Agreed.”

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

my mouth as

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

How had we not felt the tremors of the

been the stablest of structures but it was still standing.

is this

a pile

this last

seen it. They knew what

started

and his followers stuck

wouldn’t be disturbed. That

and stopped dead. The sight of the cemetery made my

gravestones had been overturned or smashed

than that, the graves

were tossed around, open, and

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

Ashely

the perimeter. Check for clues

at him. Could he have been expecting something like this or was he just that

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

a few of

had done this would cover their tracks. This wasn’t a taunt or a statement. It was

corner of

Ashley tagged along.

here. Keep an eye on Mila and remain

of course,” Ashley said, nodding. “Where

own investigation,” Soren said

temple. There wasn’t anything left there but even from where I stood, I could see what looked like a chasm that had

tried to follow after Soren but Ashley grabbed

here,”

to check out that

You’ve already caused enough trouble,” Ashley

assignment to protect me and guard me. But it was an

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