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’re doing when it

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

it like this

the fireplace, tossing a log on the fire before sitting down. I could see the hair on his arms were raised with a chill, and

“No, just you.”

standing before him for a moment before dropping to my knees, taking his chilled fingers in

curling my hands

him and be close to him for a moment,

stay away from

“I’m not going to do that. We’re

why are you

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

I were to hurt you, I’d never

I said in a

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

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

was saved from death by a drop of my great aunt Rosalie’s blood. My mother’s life had been spared by the same life-giving source by

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

should probably have told him,

your knuckles before the wounds get infected,

reach out and cup his cheek, to comfort

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

he

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

flinch as

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

so when I have someone between my knees,”

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

“Feeling better?”

I… I did want

didn’t have to

vulnerable, and we both knew it. He reached out with his

“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 to reach back for the bandages, but his fingers against my

took me by the wrist and brushed a kiss on the palm of my hand. Maybe I said his name, I wasn’t sure,

because I

the warmth and smell of him as he wrapped his

consumed me. I breathed deeply, tilting my head back

you,” he breathed, one hand splayed wide

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