Sold AS The alpha King's Breeder

Chapter 724

Chapter 69 : A Trip Down Memory Lane

“Are you going to tell me where we are going?” I asked as Soren hurried me along.

Payne and Ashley had gone on ahead to the rogue zone, leaving Soren and me alone. He seemed determined to get me where he wanted to take me and at the same time, he was doing everything he could to hide our destination from me.

“Does anything seem familiar?” he asked, instead of answering my question.

Shrugging, I looked around and shook my head.

“No. I’ve never been here, Soren. What should I be looking for?” I asked.

Soren shrugged. “You’ll know it when you see it.”

We headed off the main road into a forest. I slowed down as we got onto a forest path. Soren was still holding my hand and when I slowed down, it forced him to slow down, too.

“Something wrong?” he asked.

“I feel like I know this place,” I muttered, glancing around at the trees.

So many of them were young and still growing but I could see the charred remains of older trees overgrown with moss, grass, and vines.

“This forest… I’ve been here or seen it…” I said, my breath getting shallow.

“Where?” Soren prompted.

“This is the forest where April took us in that dream. The forest on the outskirts of Pomeli pack, Hathaway packland,” I said, recognizing where I knew the forest from.

“That’s right,” Soren said.

I went to the closest burned trunk and ran my hand along the charred bark and remains.

“The fire did a lot of damage. I’m surprised that the forest has grown back so much. It looks like it is recovering. But the pack…”

“The pack hasn’t recovered,” Soren agreed with a somber nod. “Come with me. The forest opens up just ahead.”

We went to the end of the forest path and it opened up into a big, clear space. I could see the remnants of roads from my pack but all the destroyed buildings had been taken back into the earth.

“No one has been here for a long time,” I said absently, looking at the strange hill-like shapes of grass and weeds around the buildings that used to be standing there.

“This whole place is deserted but the entire village isn’t gone. Not entirely,” Soren told me.

He grabbed my hand again and pulled me toward the hill where the pack mansion, my original home, used to stand. The mansion was gone completely. It had probably been burned to the ground and overgrown like the rest of the buildings.

like in that dream. My heart ached, wishing I could see it again in person and recover

into the center of the deserted village and I slowed again, chewing the inside of

this place were practically non-existent. The dream was all I had and it wasn’t real.

no memories

wrong?”

anything when it looks so different from

land right now. You are the heir to this territory and can claim it for your own,”

“Hang on…”

forest. Something nagged at the back of my

going?” Soren asked,

this is the right way to go…” I kept running

base of the hill. The

in front of the little cabin. It was tucked back in the forest, just hidden well enough that it wouldn’t be seen from

enough for two bedrooms. There were the remnants of an old garden in front of

places, I could vividly imagine that cabin when

imagination, the cabin door opened and a loving father came out with a little girl.

I want to walk,” she said, struggling

his hand, pulling him around to the swing set. He picked her up and held her as she swung on the monkey bars. There was no way she could have held herself up with how small she was but the big

it was a memory. It could

to my feet and pushed the door of the cabin open. Inside, it smelled musty and stale. There were cobwebs filling the corners and some moss and lichen had crept in

inside was ruined, despite the outside looking

came in

granite countertop. It was a very nice counter for a cabin, but

remember this place?” Soren

memory. First, I shook my head, then I

think so…”

layer of dust covering the counter and

vacation home as a child. Rather, my parents’ little getaway close to

remember being

walked around more. “Maybe they are

place, Mila? To fix

stared at Soren

to everything I’d learned recently. About who my parents were, my real family, my true identity, and

parents. I never wanted to meet them or know them because I

hate my parents as villains rather

poison because, after everything I went through, I’d decided it would be better to die of the poison than go through more

that I knew who my parents were, I

and get revenge for them! My parents were killed

with anger and I clenched my fists. This wasn’t over! I