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.

explanation of the events leading up to my arrival at home. I

pursed her lips, shaking her head and scoffing

plan on

her hand falling over

on a laugh.

smite you dead for marrying that sweet girl outside of the church. Paying off a priest…. How could you?

Realm of Light, Miriam. She

she continued, completely ignoring me. “This won’t do.” She knitted her fingers in her lap, tapping her foot impatiently

c*****g my brow as I looked down

“No–”

flowers in her hair and a

not–not what Eliza and I

on just playing house with her and letting her warm your bed? What about the babies, Jared? Born out

choked, then ran my hands over my face.

her finger at me, her eyes

already takes issue with you, and that’s why you’re cursed. I told you those years you spent getting piss drunk and chasing tail would

mouth,

pinched my arm and I winched, taking a

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 the

snarled. “That’s

here. Does Eliza know who she is? Everyone is

give a f**k if people are gossiping

“I let a lot of things slide, but I’m putting my foot down on this. I understand you’re doing this to keep Eliza safe, but she deserves a man who will

what

“How do you know?”

ajar as I stared at Miriam, who was

asked her about it,” I admitted,

Miriam cut in, wagging her finger accusingly at me. “What about

will. She agreed to go home once we

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

doing this

you not think I noticed the way you look at her? This is all I ever wanted for you, finding

again,” I said coldly, my entire

exhaled through her nose, nostrils

poor girl. You’ll break her heart and I’ll never forgive you for it.”

as I kicked

hadn’t talked about what was happening between us. Maybe it was selfish, but I did feel like I was

in my life. I wanted her by my side. I wanted her in

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