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 the food, clothes, and provisions we’ll need right here in the pack house,”

run out

his head

a couple of weeks. By then, the rain should have stopped and

“A couple of weeks?”

expected the fifty of

is still water lingering, there’s plenty of material lying around

can’t we do that now?” I

We’re too large of a group and we’ll die from exposure before making it

again and

right. We still had to be safe and careful. We weren’t going to be like Chandler or the other greedy, selfish packs who sacrificed their own warriors for

until it was safe to travel… even if it meant staying in this one house…

it out! The rain is slowing down!” one

the curtain

nose and forehead to the glass. The dark clouds were thinning

Soren touched my shoulder.

our good luck charm, beautiful. Now that you’re awake

and I felt a warm blush cover my

is

wait to get out and

Just peek out

They seemed

been cooped up for days in a dingy house without much to do. Waiting around for me to wake up, waiting around for

been bored out

wouldn’t be here waiting. 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 run away

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

had to get better soon

save me, digging me out of a hole,

my turn to

put my hand on my stomach, thinking

looked over my shoulder at

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

enjoy Thomas’s teasing. Otherwise, he never would have

didn’t tell Soren about the pregnancy when we were trapped in the cave. As

clearly, some parts of it didn’t

How did he find out before I knew? It could have been a

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

before I

Boom!

that?” I gasped, a shudder running

sound like that, a

said, rushing to

Bang! Crack!

kept thudding against the front door and

and my knees wobbled. I couldn’t push the memory of the

put his

is just some locals throwing rocks,”

check it out,” Soren

other warriors got up and ran out the door. A few

his arm around me as I walked out the door and

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

Bang!

rock struck the

and pulled me

“Stay back.”