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. I

you’re doing when it

exhaling deeply as the shadow gave up and turned to fine mist before disappearing completely.

it like

arms were raised with a chill, and

“No, just you.”

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

freezing,” I whispered, curling my hands around just one of

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

want you to stay away from me from

“I’m not going to do that. We’re husband

why are you doing this to

afraid of your shadow demon or whatever the hell it’s called. I don’t think it wants to hurt me.

I were to hurt you,

you,” I said in a breath

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

and Theo had been able to, uh, be together for

death by a drop of my great aunt Rosalie’s blood. My mother’s life had been

one of the blessed few who carried a piece of the White

should probably have told him,

your knuckles before the wounds get infected, please?” I said softly, looking

nod, his jaw tight with tension. I resisted the urge to reach out and cup his cheek, to comfort him. I was doing everything I could to remain calm and steady

and grabbed a box of bandages off the desk on the far side of

he said,

seeing 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 been causing his knuckles to bleed only

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

even flinch as

living hell out of yourself on a regular basis?” I quipped,

I have someone between my knees,” he teased, bringing his legs

with a little more pressure and he winced, baring his teeth at me. His eyes were

“Feeling better?”

I did want

didn’t have

vulnerable position down 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

“Did I shock you?”

released my hold on his injured hand to reach back for the bandages, but his fingers against my palm stopped

wrist and brushed a kiss on the palm of my hand. Maybe I said his name,

of it because I knew how hard he was trying to keep it

the warmth and smell of him as he wrapped his arms around me and lifted me into his

consumed me. I breathed deeply, tilting my

can’t promise I won’t hurt you,” he breathed, one hand splayed wide over

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