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

“What?” she gasped.

finger to my

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

nodded and stepped closer to me, tucking herself

focused my senses on the scent and sounds of the person up ahead rather than the warm, softness of her body close to mine. It was hard to keep focused and I kept glancing at

the fog and April

I released Mila

you doing here?” Mila asked. She smiled and ran up to her like they were

of course,” she

than before. Her clothes were clean, hair washed. She wasn’t cowering or terrified anymore. I could see strength in

we’d be back?”

am

slapping her palm to

nodded to Mila and to

followed. Payne was only a few paces behind. Now that we were in the temple, he

building and anything that might cause problems or be a hazard. Whoever had burned this place down, and destroyed the

in a specific pattern. She moved so

floor and I

“Wh–”

and the tiles April had tapped dropped down. They pulled back into a secret compartment

April said, stepping down on the

Mila’s arm, even as she attempted

perfectly safe,” April assured when she noticed

part of our deal is that you protect me, but Soren,

I released her

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

Mila followed April first.

and he nodded. He followed me as

all under the floor,

“Scut.”

pebbles shook loose from the ceiling and rolled

grimaced and glanced at Payne

and

from April’s lantern and since she was the only one that could open

didn’t like the feeling of

and charred debris had been moved away from the trap door before our arrival. April had anticipated bringing

by Mila and Payne on the stairs and joined

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

I did,” she said, not even trying to

arched an eyebrow at

Mila asked with

just because we were cursed. Once the curse is lifted, they’ll come back. I

symbol to your people,” Mila

It was a sacred place where all our most beloved secrets and treasures were buried with our most important people,” she explained

desecrated that,

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

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

be safe here,” she told us. She set the

to destroy your pack’s secrets

it is better this way,” April

I don’t know where to begin,” Mila admitted, chewing her