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.

in that dream. My heart ached,

the deserted village and I slowed

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

were no memories for me

wrong?” Soren

to remember anything when it

to this territory and can claim it for

“Hang on…”

familiar looking edge of the forest. Pulling away from Soren, I ran along the edge of the forest. Something nagged at the back of my mind. I wasn’t sure if it

where are you going?” Soren

don’t know! I just feel like this is the right way to go…” I kept running

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

hidden well enough that it wouldn’t be seen from

remnants of an old garden in

it was old and rotting in some places, I could vividly

with a little girl. She had golden

Daddy, I want to walk,” she

set. He picked her up and held her as she swung on the monkey bars. There was no way she could have

faded. At least, I thought it was a memory. It could have

open. Inside, it smelled musty and stale. There were cobwebs filling the corners and some moss and lichen had crept in around the windows,

inside was ruined, despite

came in behind

was a very nice counter for a cabin,

this place?”

memory. First, I shook my head, then I nodded. I scrunched my face

so…” I

thick layer of dust

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

being here?” he

around more. “Maybe they are memories. Maybe they

Mila? To fix up and call your

at Soren

my true identity, and the artifact they’d left me. I thought of my aunt Helen, who I still hadn’t found, and the witch blood running

I always 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

parents as villains rather than think of what I might have lost. I wondered if

take the Blackfire poison because, after everything I went through, I’d decided it would be better to die of the poison

that I knew who my parents were, I was

happened to them because I had the chance to avenge them and get revenge for them! My parents were killed because of the selfish desires of others. They were the ones

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