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.

Soren and I followed.

his warriors had the tables set and were dishing

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

out came down and sat next to me. She plopped her soup down, staring at me like I’d pounce on her and eat her if she took her eyes off me for

Miss Mila.”

and complaining about being hungry. He sat close to the woman and I was pretty sure she was

Mila. It is nice

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

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

sighed and

a small hard candy. I pressed it into the palm of

about something small

like he was going to

may I ask you

“Yeah, okay.”

glanced at the woman sitting next to him. She

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

looked up at the woman

those

the other

with them but they destroyed as much as they could… They burned our storehouses, shredded our perishables, and dumped all our produce into the muddy river. They came into our houses and ransacked them for valuables, but whatever they couldn’t take with them, they did their best to ruin

creased my brow. “How did the pack house

face, he’d been listening in. He took my

men here as a temporary headquarters.

barbarians, all of them! Of course, they would bully the weak. They knew we’d

it just to be cruel? It’s

to the woman across from

destroyed the food so they

horrible thing to do. It was

through the

Soren was reading my mind,

“Because they were afraid.”

to say something back, it didn’t work.

meant the raiders were

threatening circumstances. If the raiders threatened to kill everyone in town, they’d have a

would be scared

raiders. If Norwind survivors all banned together, the raiders could have lost

woman sitting with us, a somber

taking all your hope and risking a big fight, they dumped the food. They didn’t have to fight or kill you all in the moment but they left you all in fear and unwilling to fight back, with death looming over your head,” he told

her teeth.

hope so,”

Angelica. My sister Lilian is there.” she motioned to her sister, another one of the women

turned up her nose and refused to look

“She’s still a bit cranky.

“I understand,” I said.

“Momma!”