Sold AS The alpha King's Breeder

Chapter 829

Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder Chapter 829

Chapter 40 : This is Your Only Warning

The house was alive with the sounds of chatter and clanging pots and pans as I neared the kitchen. Miriam would be overseeing the dinner preparations now. She ran the house like a ship, every meal always right on time, every surface dusted and the floor swept and mopped before anyone even thought of going to bed.

Most of the snow had melted and the air was warm enough to start the spring gardening. I’d noticed those changes already being made when I first arrived back home.

I might own this house and village, but Miriam was the real boss around her, and everyone knew it.

The look she’d given me before retreating out of my room was enough to make me want to cower like the young boy I’d been when I first met her. No one had that kind of power over me but her.

But, she was getting older. She hadn’t cuffed my ears in years. Seeing her soften to Eliza had been shocking, and I was somewhat disappointed Eliza would never witness her wrath and iron fist.

“Miriam,” I said from the doorway into the kitchen.

She looked up from the roast turkey she was dressing with fresh spring greens and last fall’s cranberry jelly. She let out her breath, a look of sheer annoyance drifting over her face as she straightened up and motioned for one of the kitchen maids to take over.

In the corner of my eye I could see Giselle, who was peering at me with marked curiosity. I didn’t give her the satisfaction of meeting her gaze.

I’m sure rumors were already swirling about why Eliza was being moved to my room. This is what I deserved for having a house full of women under my care, I guess.

Miriam bustled over to me, untying her apron and hanging it onto a hook before walking out into the kitchen garden. Two of my men were turning the soil, preparing it for the planting taking place in a few days, right on schedule.

We walked a few paces away from the house, enough to give us some privacy. Miriam always had the first and last word, so I tucked my hands behind my back and smiled down at her, waiting.

She gave me a motherly look of disapproval, tilting her chin as she said, “Eliza is a sweet girl.”

“No, she’s not,” I replied wryly, arching my brow.

“I don’t agree with you sharing a bed with her, Jared. You’ll ruin that sweet angel–”

“That demon,” I corrected, “is my wife, from this moment forward.”

Miriam’s mouth formed a perfect O as she looked up at me, her eyes going wide with surprise.

“You eloped–”

I cut her off with a wave of my hand, noticing her disappointment. I extended my arm to her and guided us over to a bench butted up against a tall tree covered in bright green leaf buds. A warm, humid breeze whispered through the branches carrying the smell of rain as I told her everything that had happened.

Her expression went through several changes as I described what Aeris had wanted Eliza for, what we’d done to get her out of his kingdom. She gasped audibly many times and went as far as to say a few prayers to Lycaon.

It was rather dramatic, but that was Miriam.

haven’t actually married her?” Miriam said when I finished my explanation of the events leading up to my arrival at home. I

shaking her head

on having her sign the

falling over her chest. “This

I said, choking on a laugh. “What the

for marrying that sweet girl outside of the church. Paying off a priest…. How

in the Realm of Light, Miriam. She doesn’t

continued, completely ignoring me. “This won’t do.” She knitted her fingers in her lap, tapping her foot impatiently before rising from the bench. “We’ll do this

stood up, c*****g my brow as

“No–”

in

Eliza and I agreed

just playing house with her and letting her warm

my hands over my

me, her eyes

you those years you spent getting piss

mouth,

my arm and I winched, taking a step

help finally solve this curse, and you want to let that slip through your fingers? Having her sign a marriage certificate, bah!” She turned away from me, hiking up her skirts as she hustled toward

snarled. “That’s

here. Does Eliza know who she is? Everyone is talking about it,

a f**k if

of things slide, but I’m putting my foot down on this. I

what

“How do you know?”

ajar as I stared at

admitted, guilt tightening my

her finger accusingly at me. “What about her family, hmm? What would her father say about

and likely never will. She agreed to go home

you’d let her? You really think you’d be able to let her go?

this to

you look at her? This is all I ever wanted

that again,” I said coldly, my

through her

you feel better. But you’re using that poor girl. You’ll break her heart and I’ll never forgive you for it.” With that, Miriam whirled around and stalked

sighing as I kicked a pebble with the

us. Maybe it was selfish, but I did feel like I was protecting her by keeping her at arm’s

wanted her by my side. I wanted her

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