Sold AS The alpha King's Breeder

Chapter 751

Chapter 96 : A Sad, Gloomy Day

*Mila*

“What do you mean we can’t leave?” I asked.

I pulled away from Soren and looked at everyone else in the room as they stared at us. Whenever I made eye contact with one, they looked away quickly.

“Soren, what’s this all about?”

“Don’t mind them, they are just feeling a little cooped up. As I’m sure you noticed, Mila, it is pouring rain out. It has been since you passed out.”

Soren walked to the closest window and pulled the curtain back. Rain pelted against the glass and I heard another clap of distant thunder.

“So…”

“The explosion that trapped us in the mountain also took out a lot of the main roads. They were either destroyed or blocked by rubble. After digging us out, Payne and the others didn’t have time, or the strength, to clear a road out of here, and then the rains came,” Soren explained.

“You’re telling me that every single road out of Norwind territory is destroyed?”

Soren smirked. “Only the main ones were impacted by the explosions. The rain has washed out all the smaller ones and flooded others. It is too risky to try and leave on flooded and damaged roads.”

I groaned and bowed my head.

“So, we’re trapped… again!”

Soren shrugged and closed the curtain.

I narrowed my eyes at him.

“You don’t seem all that worried.”

Grinning, Soren took my hands and held them between his.

“Is this so bad? I mean really, it could be worse. We’re not in a hurry, are we? Unlike those ambitious conspirators, we don’t have anything to hide or run off with. Unless… you have an agenda in mind?”

He bounced his eyebrows at me.

Sighing, I shook my head. “No, I don’t.”

I glanced around again at everyone in the pack house. Other than Thomas and Payne, there were at least 50 of Soren’s warriors inside.

Outside, I could see some figures moving around in the rain. Hunched over and moving slowly, they looked completely defeated and broken.

I still couldn’t believe that the Norwind warriors had run off and left their most defenseless people behind to fend for themselves.

Before Soren had formed his official pack, I doubted even his rogues would do something so horrible.

They were far more honorable than Chandler’s men…

Those poor people. Their home was broken and destroyed, their pack house robbed and in shambles.

We must have seemed like such a strong, powerful group to them. Just fifty warriors and they kept their distance, obviously afraid of the strangers in their pack house. We were in their territory and they were afraid of us!

That seemed backwards to me.

“It’s not like before, Mila,” Soran said, cutting into my thoughts.

“What isn’t?” I arched an eyebrow at him.

anything that wasn’t valuable, so they left behind all the food, clothes, and provisions we’ll need right here in the pack house,” he

to run out of

head and squeezed

this time. The leftover provisions should last us a couple of weeks. By then, the rain should have stopped and

“A couple of weeks?”

eyes popping out of my head. Soren expected the fifty of us to

material lying around to make some

we do

still pouring rain. We’re too large of a

sighed again

to be safe and careful. We weren’t going to be like

safe to travel… even if it meant staying in this one house… with fifty men that hadn’t bathed in

rain is slowing down!” one of the warriors

the curtain to

thinning and the sky above looked lighter. The rain was falling in a light drizzle now, no longer

Soren touched my shoulder.

good luck charm, beautiful. Now that you’re

reddened and I felt a

is such

to get out and

sun. Just peek out a

windows. They seemed so excited for the rain

that. They’d been cooped up for days in a dingy house without much to do. Waiting around

been bored out of

night they dug us out, before the rains got bad. Or, they could have left before that if I hadn’t been trapped. And I was only trapped because I’d

lip. This was all happening because of me. I couldn’t help but feel guilty about

soon and fast, for their

me, digging me out of a hole,

my turn to put the work

my stomach, thinking of

looked over my shoulder

talking to Payne and Thomas. I loved seeing the way Thomas joked with him, and the slightly appalled look Payne

to enjoy Thomas’s teasing.

in the cave. As much as I’d wanted to tell

some parts

I knew? It could have been a lie or a trick he used to

a baby only to find out that it

be sure before I told Soren

Boom!

a

last time I’d heard a sound

Mila,” Soren said, rushing to

Bang! Crack!

thudding against the front door and

into my throat and my knees wobbled. I couldn’t push the memory of the mountain exploding out of my

put his

it is just some locals throwing rocks,” Payne

check it out,” Soren insisted,

up and ran out the door. A few

around me as I walked out the door and looked

others were women. They wore rain jackets with

Bang!

rock struck

me and pulled me behind

“Stay back.”