Sold AS The alpha King's Breeder

Chapter 822

Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder Chapter 822

Chapter 33 : I Want You

I reached behind me and turned the lock into place, narrowing my eyes at Jared, who was baring his teeth at me.

“I said get out!” he repeated.

“What is that thing?” I asked, ignoring the urgency in his tone.

I’d just told him I wasn’t afraid. I hadn’t been afraid of him the night after the ball, but this was a little different. I suddenly wondered if the intensity of our coupling had more to do with this power of his, this curse, than his own desires.

He was standing with his legs apart, his body firmly rooted as he tried to reign that shadow of power back in. I could see the desperation in his eyes, maybe even a flicker of pain as his jaw clenched, his eyes still fixed firmly on mine.

“My powers,” he said after a moment. “My… dark powers. I’m losing control of them because of the curse.”

“What does it feel like?” I asked, running my fingertips over the footboard of the bed as I walked toward him. He backed away from me, shaking his head.

“Eliza, stop,” he commanded.

“What does it want right now?” I asked, coming to a stop a few feet away from him.

Jared ran his tongue along the inside of his lower lip, narrowing his eyes at me in a way that sent a burst of heat down my spine.

“You,” he said, almost casually.

I pursed my lips, trying to look unaffected even though my blood was hammering in my ears. I thought of Lena and Xander for a moment, wondering if Xander’s power, his shadow, or whatever they called this thing, made Xander behave like this.

The Xander I’d known was poised and polite, not a rough-and-tumble outlaw like Jared. But Xander also wasn’t cursed.

“I’m flattered,” I said lightly, blinking up at him.

“Take this seriously, please,” he said through gritted teeth. “I can’t control this thing like I used to be able to–”

“What is it, exactly?”

“Just a… pulse, something within me that should be in balance with my wolf, but it’s not… not anymore, not since you showed up.”

“Me? How is this my fault? I thought you said–”

“The curse,” he panted, running his fingers through his hair, “is taking my wolf powers from me. Every day they get less and less. That shadow? It’s stronger than ever and it’s tearing at my soul with each passing day. But when I’m with you? It wants… out. It wants you. I don’t know what that means–”

“So, it likes me?” I teased, but Jared wasn’t in the mood, not at all.

“It’s not some entity–Eliza, listen to me, please. That night in my study when I pushed you against the desk? These powers just… took control. It took every ounce of my willpower to reign it in.”

“After the ball?”

was me, mostly.

remember what… what you’re doing when

the shadow gave up and turned to fine mist before

it like this with

were raised with a chill, and he shivered involuntarily as he rested his elbows

“No, just you.”

gingerly walked up to him, standing before him for a moment before dropping

curling my hands around just one

nothing to this, but allowed me to touch him and be

want you to stay away

not going to do that. We’re husband and

why are you doing this to

think it wants to hurt me. I don’t think you or your wolf

hurt

I said in a breath tinged with

Queen blood tumbling through my veins. I’d heard the rumors of course, the talk that circulated during the weeks after Xander and Lena’s wedding. I’d met Soren and Ciana, Ciana having married Theo, one of the most notorious Dark Kings in Egoren’s

had been able to, uh, be together for the same reason Jared and I

my great aunt Rosalie’s blood. My mother’s life had been spared by

was one of the blessed few who carried a piece of the White Queens with me, even

should probably have

put something on your knuckles before the wounds get infected, please?”

jaw tight with tension. I resisted the urge to reach out and cup his cheek, to comfort him.

of bandages off the desk on the far

alcohol on the dresser,” he said, leaning

and he was slowly flexing his hands out of the tight fists that had been causing

him. He breathed deeply as I knelt between his knees and took his injured hand

even flinch as I dabbed

of yourself on a regular basis?” I quipped, giving him a narrow-eyed

someone between my knees,” he teased, bringing

the rag into his skin with a little more pressure and he winced, baring his teeth at me. His eyes were soft,

“Feeling better?”

Liza. I… I did want

didn’t have to

knew it. He reached out with his free hand to brush a curl from my shoulder, his fingers lingering on my blouse long enough for his touch to send a

“Did I shock you?”

too?” I looked up at him just as his eyes drifted back to my face. I slowly released my hold on his injured hand

my hand. Maybe I said his name, I wasn’t sure, because he

cried at the gentleness of it because I knew how hard he was trying to keep it that

my knees, slowly, sheltered in the warmth and smell of him as he wrapped his arms around me and lifted me into

parchment consumed me. I breathed deeply, tilting my head back as he brushed a kiss

I won’t hurt you,” he breathed, one hand splayed wide over my back. “But I’ll

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