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.

looked like in that dream. My heart ached,

of the deserted village and I slowed

it wasn’t real. The real Hathaway had been burned

memories for me

something wrong?”

hard to remember anything when it looks so different

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

“Hang on…”

at the back of my mind. I wasn’t

going?”

know! I just feel like this is the right way

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

over me and I dropped to my knees in front of the little cabin. It was tucked back in the forest, just hidden well enough that it wouldn’t be seen from the mansion. It had probably escaped

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

I could

loving father came out with a little girl. She had golden hair and bouncing curls. The man picked her up and hugged her. She

walk,” she

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

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

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

inside was ruined, despite the

came in behind

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

this

jog my memory. First, I shook

so…” I

layer of dust covering the counter and

home as a child. Rather,

remember being here?”

they

this place, Mila? To fix up and call your

at

who my parents were, 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 blood

I always thought that I was abandoned by my parents. I never wanted to meet them or know them because I hated to

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

through, I’d decided it would be better to die of the poison than go through more pain and suffering. I had thought my existence was no longer

knew who my parents were, I was glad

to learn what had happened to them because I had the chance to avenge them and get revenge for them! My parents were killed because of the

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