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.

the gift. It is a

stuck my tongue out a little so Soren would know I was

“Or, a forever reminder

and I

“Soren,” Ashley called out.

stormed through the mist, her hands on her hips. Her dark glower fixed directly on

again that Ashley might really like Soren. She always seemed to interrupt when he and

to remind her that Soren was an adult and perfectly capable of taking care of himself and making his

impulse quickly

she mad?” I

wouldn’t help our mission if Ashely was pissed off. She might try to sabotage things or get in the way. As far as I was concerned, Ashley and I were on good

an eyebrow at

waved off my

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 and very

covered my mouth as

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

How had we not

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

is this place?” Ashley

it is a pile of rubble,” Payne

like this last night,”

both seen it. They knew what

head, I started to move through

followers

be disturbed. That was where I’d found all the useful information

stopped dead. The sight of the cemetery

had been overturned

the graves were

tossed around,

and piled on mounds of dirt. All of them

hell…” Ashely came up beside

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

expecting something like this or was he just that calm in

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

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

sank. I doubted they would find anything in this mess. Whoever, or whatever, had done this would cover their tracks. This

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

Ashley tagged along.

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

of course,” Ashley said,

own investigation,”

original entrance of the temple. There wasn’t anything left there but even from where I stood, I could see

to follow after Soren

here,” she

I want to check out

already caused enough trouble,” Ashley insisted.

dissatisfied with her assignment to