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.

I watched her

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

flap opened and Mila came back in. She didn’t look at me but she brought a bottle of water to the collapsible camping table in my tent. She slammed the bottle down, water sloshing

arched an eyebrow.

bowed her head and opened

around and came to the edge of my cot. Without a word, she

asked, picking up

book was left behind by my mother or my aunt Helen. I’m not sure which. But it is a spell book that might have information about the plant that poisoned you,” she said,

“Okay…”

Can you take a look and see if there is

bounced my eyebrows and grinned. “Do you trust

you mean?” she asked,

might snatch this and run away or sell it to someone else?” I asked,

or did you fall out of the cot and hit

out of my cot because you’ve been in it with me every night,”

reddened and

of her emotions. I loved seeing it

more important than what you might want

back and absently started

never expected her to open up like that. It was subtle, but she’d let her guard down and shown

time I’d seen that before was when

I shook those thoughts

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 “repay” me

Not this time…

been seen as repayment for taking poison for her. But saying that she cared about me more than the fate of the book… That was genuine and real. It was the first real thing I

she have real

go of my past. No matter

me that didn’t know whether I would ever be loved again or that I’d ever be worthy of love again. Was

smelled her wolf for the first time, and

mate bond? I didn’t think I had a mate

Until recently…

or was it just false hope that the Moon Goddess cooked up for me as my punishment? Was this just to remind me of the mistakes I’d

Thoughts of Mila and her trusting gesture

my mate and I pressured her too much or clung

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

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

running through my head and I flipped the

never leaving my face as I read through

used to

split into sections. The first section was a plant directory that had drawn

similar to the one that stung

book was herbal recipes. A lot of them were healing salves, potions, teas, and the like. But there were several others that were more sinister. Poisons and potions that could

lot of the herbs and plants listed in those recipes were common household plants. But

This book was far too powerful to fall into the wrong

the book was made up of handwritten spells that could only be used by blood witches.

all but I flipped through enough to get

closed the book and pushed it toward

did you find anything?”