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.

spine stiffened and I grabbed Mila’s arm, pulling her to a

“What?” she gasped.

put a finger to my

whispered, nodding to what used to be

stepped closer to me,

my senses on the scent and sounds of the person up ahead rather than the warm, softness of her body close to mine. It

April

released Mila

asked. She smiled and ran up to her like

of course,”

before. Her clothes were clean, hair washed. She

knew we’d be

am a

Mila said, slapping her palm

me,” April instructed. She nodded to Mila and

behind. Now that we were

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

and tapped her foot on several floor tiles in a specific pattern. She moved so quickly,

through the floor and I grabbed Mila,

“Wh–”

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

down on the steps. She waved

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

April assured when

me, but Soren, really?” Mila called me out, glancing at my hand

released

sure. I could keep

Mila followed April first.

and he nodded. He followed me as I went down into

under the floor, April turned

“Scut.”

loose from the ceiling and rolled down the stairs as

and glanced at

and

she was the only one that could open

the feeling of being

debris had been moved away from the trap door

walked by Mila and Payne on the stairs and joined

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

did,” she said, not even trying to deny

arched an eyebrow at

with a soft

curse is lifted, they’ll come back. I know they will.”

symbol

all our most beloved secrets and treasures were buried with our most important people,” she explained with

graveyard. You desecrated that, too?”

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

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

should be safe here,” she told us. She

hadn’t had to destroy your pack’s secrets and history,” Mila

it is better this

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