Sold AS The alpha King's Breeder

Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder Chapter 715

Chapter 60 : A Moment of Relief

*Soren*

I lounged on the cot, propping my head up with my arm. Mila peeled my bandage off and I watched her movements as she unwrapped the bandage.

A small frown forced her lips down as she looked over the leg.

“Soren, it has been three days. Your wounds aren’t healing. Why is that?” Mila asked.

Eros had given me that putrid smelling poultice three days ago and the bleeding had stopped. The wounds hadn’t scabbed over or begun to heal. Mila was checking every day and whenever that little frown touched her lips, I knew what was on her mind.

Sighing, I shrugged and nudged her with my leg. “Maybe I’m just getting old.”

Mila rolled her eyes. “Stop making it sound like nothing. This isn’t nothing… aren’t you concerned at all?”

“Sure,” I said, shrugging again.

Mila narrowed her eyes at me. “Why do I not believe you?”

“Mila, my concern is about you running away again, especially while I’m sick,” I said, sighing.

I was surprised she’d stuck around as long as she had. Why hadn’t she run off yet? The question lingered in my mind. She’d always taken any moment when my guard was down to run off.

Instead, she stayed here with me and looked after me like a nursemaid.

“You… You’re not gonna take this seriously, are you?” she asked, shaking her head and glaring at me.

I chuckled and winked at her. She sounded almost concerned and I wanted to keep hearing that tone in her voice. The only way to do that was to keep teasing her.

“Would you prefer it if I cried about my wounds? There isn’t a whole lot else I can do,” I pointed out.

Mila stared at me blankly. She shook her head and scoffed.

I nudged her again with my leg, trying to get her to smile. It was fun teasing her and seeing how she would react. Sometimes, it seemed like she wasn’t prepared for my teasing, even though she should have been. I had done it enough by this point.

She seemed determined to stick with me until she was certain I was fully healed. I wouldn’t deny that I liked her playing nurse for me and I was happy to have a reason for her not to run off on her own again.

Whenever her eyes flickered with worry and a little frown touched her lips, my heart jumped.

I knew it wasn’t the most productive thought to have, but I hoped that it would take a while for my wounds to heal so that she’d keep looking after me. Perhaps, she might develop enough softness to stop running from me.

If nothing else, I could enjoy her “special treatment” a bit longer.

“You’re a piece of work,” she muttered, rolling her eyes. She put a fresh bandage on my leg, even though it wasn’t bleeding anymore.

Since the wounds were still open, it made sense to keep them covered so bacteria couldn’t get inside.

“You need more rest. Stop teasing and playing and focus on getting better,” she chastised.

Mila tossed her hair over her shoulder and left the tent.

watched

I couldn’t always gauge how she was going to react

didn’t look at me but she brought a bottle of water to the

an

me. Sighing, she bowed her head and opened her

turned around and came to the edge of my cot. Without a

this?” I asked, picking

Helen. I’m not sure which. But it is a spell

“Okay…”

read but I know you can. Can you take a look and see if there is anything about that plant?”

and

do you mean?” she

sell it to someone else?” I asked, sticking my tongue

get to your brain, or did you fall out of the cot and hit your

I haven’t fallen out of my cot because you’ve been in

and she turned away

she blushed, it was so sweet and innocent, a pure expression of

than what you might want to do with the book,” she told

and absently started

at her, frozen in place from her admission. I’d never expected her to open up like that. It was subtle, but she’d let her guard

that before was when I had her writhing beneath me in

shook those

lick her own wounds than accept help from anyone else. I knew that was how she protected herself. No matter how much I’d done for her, she was always trying to

Not this time…

saying that she cared about me more than the fate of the book… That was genuine and real.

real feelings for

No matter how many times I told myself, Payne, and Thomas

be loved again or that I’d ever

matter of what happened in the cave when I smelled her wolf for the

think I had a mate and I’d seen nothing to make me think that Mila was my

Until recently…

up for me as my punishment? Was

lap. Thoughts of Mila and her trusting gesture

wasn’t my mate and I pressured her too much or clung too much, would that

eyes to her and saw the dark shadow of disappointment lingering. It

of plants in there and the stinging nettle could be one of them. It might give more information about the poison,

running through my head and I

the cot, her eyes never leaving my face

used to but I could make out the

had drawn images of plants,

plant that was similar to the

salves, potions, teas, and the like. But there were several others that were more

were common household plants. But when combined in the

pages. This book was far too powerful to fall into the wrong

of the book was made up of handwritten spells

flipped through enough to get a good understanding of

I closed the book and

you find