Sold AS The alpha King's Breeder

Chapter 753

Chapter 98 : He’s in Bad Shape

“If you’re here for food, why didn’t you ask?” I called down to the sad group.

“You think we’re stupid? It’s not like you would just give it to us. We know that you’re bloodthirsty leeches!” the crying boy’s mother shouted.

I closed the window and looked at Soren.

“Mila…”

“They’re hungry. We have the food.”

“You can’t go out there.”

“Watch me!”

I hurried out of the room and down to the kitchens. It wasn’t much, but I grabbed some loaves of bread.

Through the walls, I heard the women shouting at me.

“I knew it! I knew it!

“You selfish, greedy freak!”

“You’re hoarding it all to yourself!”

When I opened the front door, they all stopped talking. I went to the kids and tore off chunks of bread, passing them out. They stopped crying immediately when they took bread from me and quickly started chewing on it.

Soon, the air was filled with the sound of munching and crunching from the hard crust of the bread.

I made sure each child got some, ignoring the adults.

“Take it slow. If you’re too hungry, eating fast will make you sick,” I warned.

The boy that started all the crying blushed when I patted his head.

All the adults were dead silent, staring at me as I checked on the children. Even if they wanted to hurt me, I was in no danger. They were too shocked and awed to do anything to me.

Soren came out onto the lawn. I was a little surprised he hadn’t rushed out right after me.

The women closest to him trembled and cowered away from him.

“My apologies,” he said, nodding his head to the crowd. “Had we known that you’d run out of food, we would have acted sooner. I have my men preparing soup now. Come inside and eat. With everyone here, we can recalculate how much food is left and daily rations to make sure it lasts as long as possible.”

Soren held his arm out toward the pack house door.

Murmurs went through the crowd and I saw the way they looked at each other. They were suspicious, like we were inviting them into a trap of some kind.

None of them said anything. They stared at Soren and they stared at me. I understood their reluctance to accept our help but I hoped they would, for the sake of the kids.

and suddenly, they all perked up. Licking their

Soren and I followed.

the tables set and were dishing up

the soup. If they hadn’t had anything to eat in days, something light like this was

plopped her soup down, staring at me like I’d pounce on her

my name is Ben, thank you, Miss Mila.” a

hungry. He sat close to the woman and I

Mila. It is nice to meet you,

have some more soup, Mila?” he pushed his empty bowl toward

let that food settle first. Having too much all at once isn’t good

sighed and

pulling out a small hard candy. I pressed it into the palm

about something small and

candy to his face. He opened his mouth like he was going to pop it right in but then he stopped. He kept it in the wrapper and put it in

I ask

“Yeah, okay.”

woman sitting next to him. She was

all run out of food so quickly? We thought the intruders didn’t care about food or

the woman

“Because those bastards dumped our

“bastards” I knew she was referring to the looters from the other packs and even some

as much as they could… They burned our storehouses, shredded our perishables, and dumped all our produce into the muddy

brow. “How did

the look on his face, he’d been listening in. He took my hand and held it

headquarters.

Of course, they would bully the weak. They knew

do something so vicious? Was it just to be cruel? It’s not like it did them any good, right?”

flicked to the woman across from me.

so they

to do. It was a

would they go through the trouble of dumping

if Soren was reading my mind,

“Because they were afraid.”

was reestablished. When I tried to say something back, it didn’t work. Sighing, I squeezed Soren’s hand. Ever since he rescued me, the mindlink had

raiders were

the raiders threatened to kill everyone in town, they’d have a battle on their hands.

would be scared of

raiders. If Norwind survivors all banned together, the raiders could have lost or been overpowered. It was too big of a risk for

the woman sitting with us, a somber

They didn’t have to fight or kill you all in the moment but they left you all in

gritting through her teeth. “Damned raiders. They’ll pay for this. Even if I can’t

so,”

us. You saved our lives,” she said, her lips twitching. “I’m Angelica. My sister Lilian is there.” she motioned to her sister, another one

noticed us looking at her. She turned up her nose and refused to look

still a bit cranky. Sorry

“I understand,” I said.

“Momma!”