Sold AS The alpha King's Breeder

Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder Chapter 824

Chapter 35 : I Must Be Dead

*Eliza*

“A trade,” Aeris’s voice echoed in my ears as I looked frantic after Jared, who was stuck in place with shock. The young woman on the stage turned frantic eyes on Jared, and the look on her face…

Something snapped in my chest.

A trade. A trade… Me, for that woman.

“You can have her back,” Aeris boomed, a hush falling over the crowd. “If you leave Eliza behind, with me.”

Jared looked back at me, his eyes cold and void of expression as he looked me over. I opened my mouth to say his name. It was the only thing I could think to say.

But then he turned and pushed through the crowd.

He’d gone to her.

“We need to go, now,” Brandt hissed in my ear, his brutal tone sounding so unlike him as he grabbed me roughly by the arm and started to pull me out of the crowd.

I tasted acid in my throat. My mouth was dry as I tried to swallow. My heart was shattering in my chest as jealousy and confusion roiled in my stomach.

“Who is that woman?” I tried to say, but Brandt broke into a sprint, practically dragging me behind him.

We darted between buildings, our bodies cast in shadows as our feet pounded the cracked pavement still wet from last night’s storm. Brandt came to an abrupt halt, his chest heaving with effort as he peaked around the corner of the building, then pressed himself back into the alleyway, shaking his head.

“Aeris has warriors stationed at the main gate–”

“Because he just offered Jared that woman in exchange for me!” I hissed, digging my fingernails into his forearm. “What the f**k is going on?!”

Brandt was in no mood to explain anything to me, that was clear. He slammed his arm into my chest, flattening me against the wall as three warriors passed us on the street, running towards the gate.

“Come on,” he said under his breath, taking me by the hand as we ran back down the alley. My shoes and pants were already wet from stomping through puddles and other muck I didn’t even want to think about. We were well outside of the city proper now, weaving between the run-down buildings along the inside of the wall. I knew where he was taking me. It was the temple Jared had told me about.

It led outside the wall.

Brandt and I ran up the steps without glancing behind us. I was panting, my legs burning from the exertion of sprinting through the massive city. I tried to catch my breath for a moment while Brandt pounded on the door.

door wide enough for us to pass through. She yelped in surprise as Brandt shoved through a second door leading into the temple, the woman’s voice

hurry!” Brandt cried as I caught my toe on a cracked stone

hips as I grunted, clawing Brandt’s

as he stepped out of the shadows and hurried over to

that!” Brandt snapped, tugging me

left at the end of the hallway–” the priest began, but Brandt and I were already running toward the door at the far side of the temple. Darkness blanketed us as we crossed through the doorway. A chill licked up my spine as Brandt led me down the stairs and into a narrow, damp tunnel that seemed

trying to pull him

before bursting out the other side of the tunnel and into the

his breath. He let me go, resting his hands on his knees for a moment. I could barely see him. The only light in the

he panted. “Her

one of the

His

opened my mouth to reply but couldn’t find the

here. I feel like the walls are closing in on me,” Brandt whispered through a heaving breath. “I’m sorry,

through my hair. The ribbon holding my hair away from my face had come loose and was

didn’t–he didn’t feel what

voice dropping an octave as I walked past him toward the end

up, his heavy footsteps echoing

arm and whirled me around to face him. The torch sent an amber glaze over the sharp planes of his face as his

“I don’t care, Brandt!”

on the verge of tears. I was deeply embarrassed by

believe for a second he was going to trade you in

her, or anyone else he was involved with for that matter! He went to

nose. “I’m getting you out. Jared told

it would stop Aeris from laying a claim to me, and now look what’s happened! It didn’t

from the

need to go,” Brandt whispered, gripping

opened. He helped me climb up and out, and I crawled on my hands and knees away from the wall surrounding Aeris’s fortress,

as he tossed his backpack on the ground and began taking off his

arms as he shifted, a startling beautiful brown wolf with piercing blue eyes looking me over as he stretched and shook out his fur. Both of our heads

along the wall,

over his back. I gripped his body with my thighs and leaned into him as I adjusted his belongings, trying to

would take us along the southern trail, but I knew for a fact it wasn’t the way we were currently going. We passed the place Aeris’s warriors had roughed us up when we’d first arrived. The grass still had imprints from where the heavy bags of pilfered treasures from

but the thought was gone in a flash as the Dark Forest loomed in the distance, nothing but a