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.

wasn’t valuable, so they left behind all

to run out of air?”

head and squeezed my

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

“A couple of weeks?”

fifty of us to stay crammed in this pack house for

is still water lingering, there’s plenty of material lying around to make some boats or rafts

can’t we do that now?” I

a group and we’ll die from exposure before making

sighed again and

to be like Chandler or the other greedy, selfish

safe to travel… even if it meant staying in this

it out! The rain is slowing down!” one of

opened the curtain

over, pressing my nose and forehead to the glass. The dark clouds were thinning and the sky above

Soren touched my shoulder.

beautiful. Now that you’re awake the

reddened and I felt a warm

is such good

wait to get

sun. Just peek out

They seemed so excited for

without much to do. Waiting around for me to wake up, waiting around for the rain to stop. It was a lot

bored

They could have left the same 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

all happening because of me. I couldn’t help but feel guilty about the situation with

get better soon and

through enough for me, coming to save me,

turn to put the

my stomach, thinking

my shoulder at

to Payne and Thomas. I loved seeing the way Thomas joked with him, and the slightly appalled look Payne always shot Thomas, like he thought Thomas was being

enjoy Thomas’s teasing.

when we were trapped in the cave. As much as I’d wanted to tell

think clearly, some

find out before I knew? It could have been a lie or a trick he used to get me to cooperate. I needed

baby only to find out that it was a trick and I wasn’t pregnant at all. It would be devastating, for both

be sure before I told Soren about this

Boom!

I gasped, a shudder running down my

I’d heard a sound like that, a mountain

okay, Mila,” Soren said,

Bang! Crack!

against the front door and

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

his

it is just some locals throwing rocks,” Payne

out,” Soren insisted, pointing

Payne, Thomas, and several other warriors got up and ran out the door. A few

arm around me as I walked out the door and

that there were children in the group. I guess the others were women. They wore rain jackets with hoods and it

Bang!

rock struck the

me and pulled me behind

“Stay back.”