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.

what the mansion looked like in that dream. My heart ached, wishing I could see it again in person

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

non-existent. The dream was all I had and it wasn’t real. The real Hathaway had been burned to

were no memories for

wrong?”

anything when it looks so different from the dream,” I

the heir to this territory and

“Hang on…”

edge of the forest. Something nagged at

going?”

feel like this is the right way to go…” I

all the way to the base of the hill. The forest veered off in another direction but there was one

was tucked back in the forest, just hidden well enough that it wouldn’t be seen from the mansion. It had probably escaped being burned or destroyed because

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

places, I could vividly imagine that cabin when

father came out with a little girl. She

want to walk,” she said, struggling

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 smile on her face showed how proud she was of

was

my feet and pushed the door of the cabin open. Inside, it smelled musty and stale. There were

ruined, despite the

in

kitchen and touched the granite countertop. It was a very nice counter for

you remember this

around more, hoping to jog my memory. First, I shook my head, then I nodded. I scrunched

so…” I

thick layer of dust covering the counter and

vacation home as a child.

remember being

around more. “Maybe they are memories. Maybe they

want this place, Mila? To fix up and call

stared at Soren

supposed to say to that? My mind wandered back to everything I’d learned recently. About who my parents were, my real family, my true identity, and the artifact they’d left me. I thought of my aunt Helen, who

thought that I was abandoned by my parents. I never wanted to meet them or know them because I hated to think of what kind

much suffering at the hands of my foster mother and Saboreef pack. It had been easier to hate my parents as villains rather than think of what I

went through, I’d decided it would be better to die of the poison than go through more pain and suffering. I had thought

my parents were, I

the chance to avenge them and get revenge for them! My parents

my fists. This wasn’t over! I would make them all pay for