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 remember what… what you’re

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

like

fireplace, tossing a log on the fire before sitting down. I could see the hair on his arms were raised with a chill, and he shivered involuntarily as he rested his elbows on

“No, just you.”

to him, standing before him for a moment before

curling my hands around

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

away from

grinned. “I’m not going to do that.

you

your shadow demon or whatever the hell it’s called. I don’t think it wants to hurt me. I don’t think you or your wolf will let

I were to hurt you, I’d

in a breath tinged with annoyance. “You can’t hurt

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. I’d met Soren and Ciana, Ciana having married Theo,

to, uh, be together for

a drop of my great aunt Rosalie’s blood. My mother’s life

of the

have

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

to reach out and cup his cheek,

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

he said,

had some color in his cheeks again, and he was slowly flexing his hands out of the tight fists that

over to him. He breathed deeply as I knelt between his knees and took his

even flinch as I

you enjoy beating the living hell out of yourself on a regular basis?” I quipped, giving him a narrow-eyed

knees,” he teased, bringing

and he winced,

“Feeling better?”

I… I did want to

have to

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

“Did I shock you?”

as his eyes drifted back to my face. I slowly released my hold

slowed to a crawl as he gently took me by the wrist and brushed a kiss on the palm of my hand. Maybe I said his

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

knees, slowly, sheltered in the warmth and smell of him as he wrapped

of leather and fresh parchment consumed me. I breathed deeply, tilting my head

I won’t hurt you,” he breathed, one

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