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

tongue out a little so Soren would know I

smirked. “Or, a forever reminder of

my throat and I

“Soren,” Ashley called out.

hands on her hips.

like Soren. She always seemed to interrupt when he and I were having a moment. Either that,

was an adult and perfectly capable of taking care

quickly and leaned

she mad?”

try to sabotage things or get in the way. As far as I was concerned, Ashley and I

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

waved off

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

“Agreed.”

down the 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

gasped and covered my mouth as I stared

night before. It was nothing but a pile

had we not felt the tremors

structures but it was still standing. What could have

is this place?” Ashley

a temple, it is a pile of rubble,”

this

Soren had both seen it. They

I started to move

and his followers stuck close

disturbed. That was where I’d found all the

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 smashed into millions

the

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

Ashely came up

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

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

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

of Soren’s followers. They disappeared

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

me to a corner of the

Ashley tagged along.

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

said, nodding. “Where are you

do my own investigation,”

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

after Soren but Ashley grabbed my

staying here,” she

to check

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 understood that she wouldn’t disobey or let