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?”

me, mostly.

you remember what… what you’re doing when

mist before disappearing completely. “I wouldn’t let it hurt you. I wouldn’t let myself give into it like

like this

hair on his arms were raised with a chill, and he shivered involuntarily as he rested his elbows on the seat rest and hung his

“No, just you.”

him for a moment before dropping to

my hands around just

said nothing to this, but allowed me to touch him and be close to him for a moment, which felt

you to stay away from me

I grinned. “I’m not going to do

you

don’t think it wants

to hurt you, I’d

told you,” I said in a

I should have told him he couldn’t hurt me because I had just a pinch of White 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.

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

great aunt Rosalie’s blood. My mother’s life

who carried a piece of the White Queens with

probably have told

before the wounds get infected, please?”

gave me a tight nod, his jaw tight with tension. I resisted the urge to reach out and cup his cheek, to comfort

box of bandages off the desk on the far side of the

alcohol on the dresser,” he said, leaning

the lines of stress fading from his face. He had some color in his cheeks again, and he was slowly flexing his hands out of the tight fists that had

over to him. He breathed deeply as I knelt

as I

yourself on a regular basis?” I

when I have someone between my knees,” he teased, bringing

into his skin with a little more pressure and he winced, baring his teeth

“Feeling better?”

sorry, Liza. I… I did want to kiss

have

there, resting between his legs. Well, he was even more vulnerable, and we both 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

“Did I shock you?”

looked up at him just as his eyes drifted back to my face. I slowly released my hold on his injured hand to reach back for the bandages, but his fingers against my palm stopped

Maybe I

it because I knew

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

consumed me. I breathed deeply, tilting my head

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

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