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.

smiled. “Well… thank you for the gift. It is a forever

out a little so

“Or, a forever reminder of what

into my throat and I nodded. I couldn’t do anything

“Soren,” Ashley called out.

hands on her hips. Her dark glower

he and I were having a moment. Either that, or she

an adult and perfectly

impulse quickly and

mad?”

far as I was concerned, Ashley and I were on good terms but I

asked, raising an eyebrow at me.

waved off

probably get going again. Lingering in one place in this fog isn’t wise,” I suggested

“Agreed.”

cleared a little. It wasn’t much but just enough that I could see the stars overhead.

covered my mouth as I stared at

since the night before. It was nothing but a

How had that happened since last night? How had we not felt

it was still standing. What could have caused it to

is this place?” Ashley

a pile of rubble,” Payne

wasn’t like this last night,”

both seen it. They knew what it was supposed

started to move

and his followers stuck close

That was where I’d found all

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

gravestones had been overturned or smashed into millions of

the graves were dug

tossed around, open, and

were bent over stone debris and piled on mounds of dirt. All of them charred and burnt to

the hell…” Ashely

team and do a sweep of the perimeter. Check for clues of what could cause this,” Soren

at him. Could he have been expecting something like this

all. His eyes were dark and he seemed

a few of

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

my arm and dragged me to a corner of the rubble. I was too shocked

Ashley tagged along.

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

course,” Ashley said, nodding.

own investigation,”

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

Soren but

here,”

check out

caused enough trouble,” Ashley insisted. She

pleased to be around me again. She was even more dissatisfied with her assignment to protect me and guard me. But it