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.

mansion looked like in that dream. My heart ached,

center of the deserted village and I slowed again, chewing

it wasn’t real. The real Hathaway had

memories for me

wrong?” Soren

hard to remember anything when it looks so different from the dream,”

is unclaimed land right now. You are the heir to this territory and can

“Hang on…”

away from Soren, I ran along the edge of the forest. Something nagged at the back of my mind. I

where are you going?”

don’t know! I just feel like this is the right

edge of the forest all the way to the base of the hill. The forest veered off

forest, just hidden well

two bedrooms. There were the remnants of an

old and rotting in some places, I could vividly imagine that cabin when it was pristine and well cared

with a little girl. She had golden hair and bouncing curls.

I want to walk,” she said,

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

At least, I thought it was

cabin open. Inside, it smelled musty and stale. There were cobwebs filling

ruined, despite the

in behind

countertop. It was a very nice counter for a cabin, but my parents had been really well

you remember this

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

so…” I

dust

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

being here?” he

around more. “Maybe they are

To fix up and

stared at

my real family, 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

them or know them because I hated to think of what kind of people would abandon me to the life I

as villains rather than think

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

knew who my parents were, I was

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

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