Sold AS The alpha King's Breeder

Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder Chapter 687

Chapter 34 : Send Me in Too

“Alright, we can track her down,” I said, nodding.

“Thank you,” she said back stiffly. Her teeth clenched behind her lips.

Her eyes darted to Thomas several times. As much as I wanted to keep Thomas at my side, Mila didn’t seem like she trusted him. Not the way that she had come to trust and accept Payne’s presence.

“Payne, come with us,” I said, indicating Mila and myself. “Thomas, stay here and make sure the rest of the group is safe until we get back, got it?”

“Sure, got it.” Thomas nodded.

“Where should we look?” I asked, heading into the hall.

“I figured we could start at the temple,” Mila suggested.

“Alright,” I agreed.

‘Who is this young beauty?’ Thomas mindlinked me as I shut the door.

‘Trouble,’ I growled mentally.

Thomas chuckled as the door slammed closed behind me. I shook my head and motioned down the hall.

Payne walked close behind us, alert to any dangers. Miltern was still crawling with bounty hunters that wanted Mila. We were stealthier in a small group but also more vulnerable. Especially since Mila wasn’t fully healed from the poison and I didn’t know her fighting capabilities.

“This pack has suffered a lot,” Mila said as we walked through the eerie, sense-numbing fog.

“More than either of us knows,” I agreed, nodding.

With what Thomas told me about Helen, I had a feeling there was a lot more this pack had suffered than just the curse and the fog.

“I want to help them, really, I do,” Mila told me with a firm nod.

I gave a half smile. She had a good heart and that was admirable.

“Then we will help them, whatever it takes,” I assured her.

She smiled and glanced at me, her eyes wide and bright.

I stopped dead, my heart thudding against my chest. Her look of gratitude stopped me in my tracks, literally. I flashed back to Thomas’s comments on finding a mate.

Growling under my breath, I shook my head and kept walking. Fortunately, Mila didn’t seem to notice my momentary lapse.

“I wish I knew how to help but I’m completely lost. Hopefully, April will give me more information or more guidance. She seems to know about magic,” she continued.

“Mila…” I sighed and stopped walking again.

Mila turned to face me, the hope in her eyes slowly fading.

I wanted to tell her what Thomas had told me about Helen and Norwind pack. I wanted to tell her about the artifact, even if it was all rumors. That was part of our deal, wasn’t it? We were supposed to share information.

I held my tongue and shook my head.

“Nevermind. You’re doing the right thing,” I said.

The hope flickered in her eyes like a light turning on. She nodded and continued toward the temple.

stiffened and I grabbed Mila’s arm, pulling her

“What?” she gasped.

put a finger to

up there,” I whispered, nodding to what used to be the entrance of the

stepped closer to me, tucking herself

than the warm, softness of her body close to

the fog and April stepped out of the

released Mila

She smiled and ran

you, of course,” she said,

hair washed. She

knew we’d be back?” Mila

“I am a

Mila said, slapping her

instructed. She nodded to

was only a few paces behind. Now that we

a close watch on the crumbling building and anything that might cause problems or be a hazard. Whoever had

several floor tiles in a specific

and I

“Wh–”

down. They pulled back into a secret compartment

stepping down on the steps. She waved

held Mila’s arm, even as she attempted to follow

perfectly safe,” April assured when she noticed my

that you protect me, but Soren, really?” Mila

I released her

trust April but I still wasn’t so sure. I could keep a close eye on things while Mila

Mila followed April first.

and he nodded. He followed

under the floor, April turned and held

“Scut.”

the ceiling and rolled down the

glanced at

and

only light came from April’s lantern and since she was the only one that could open the door for us, we were trapped with

like the

most about the temple, and I noticed that the burned and charred debris had

on the stairs and joined April

the temple down, didn’t you?” I asked, a hint of accusation

did,” she said, not even

an

asked with a soft

away just because we were cursed. Once the curse is lifted, they’ll come back. I know they will.” April shuddered and pulled

a symbol to your people,”

place where all our most beloved secrets and treasures were buried with

desecrated that, too?”

those things. Generations of secrets and knowledge… If anyone outside Miltern got to that information, we’d be doomed. Better it is

bottom of the stairs and the dungeon opened up into a large chamber. The light from her lantern didn’t reach the walls but from the echoes of

told

wish you hadn’t had to destroy your pack’s

is better this way,” April

don’t know where to begin,”