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.

dream. My heart ached,

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

was all I had and it wasn’t real. The real Hathaway had

were no memories for

something wrong?”

remember anything when it looks so different from the

this is unclaimed land right now. You are the heir to this territory and can claim it for your

“Hang on…”

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

are you going?” Soren asked,

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

of the forest all the way to the base of the hill. The forest

was tucked back in the forest, just hidden well enough that it wouldn’t be seen

enough for two bedrooms. There were the remnants of an old garden in front of the cabin and a broken swing

rotting in some places, I could vividly imagine that cabin when

little girl. She had golden hair and

Daddy, I want to walk,” she said,

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

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

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 around the windows, growing on the

ruined, despite

came in

was a very nice counter for a cabin, but my parents had been really

this

my memory. First, I shook

so…”

layer of dust covering the counter and the

this was my vacation home as a child. Rather,

remember being here?”

“Maybe they are memories. Maybe

place, Mila? To fix up and

stared at

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

abandoned by my parents. I never wanted to meet them or know them because I hated to think of what kind of people would abandon me to the life

parents as villains rather than think of what I

better to die of the poison than go through more pain and suffering. I

I knew who my parents

was glad that I’d survived long enough to learn what had happened to them because I had the chance to avenge them and get revenge for them! My parents were killed

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