Sold AS The alpha King's Breeder

Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder Chapter 845

Chapter 56 : Unlikely Allies

*Eliza*

The building must have been used as some kind of common space for the people of Abe’s village. It was a wide, open space with several long tables able to seat dozens of people as well as bookshelves lining the walls. There was a single hallway leading away from the common area, and one of the doors was ajar. Light spilled into the darkened hallway as I held Scarlett’s hand and led her forward.

I could feel her hesitation. The air around us was thick and electric. One glance at her face and I knew she was likely going to faint when we reached the room, especially now that childlike laughter was filling the air around us.

The voices of women cut through the chatter as we approached the door. Scarlett paused, digging in her heels.

“I can’t,” she squeaked, looking up at me with wide eyes and a flushed face. “I can’t!”

“Why? He’s your son—”

“He has no idea who I am. He wouldn’t have been told anything about me, Liza. I was never considered his mother. I was just a vessel—”

I grabbed her by the shoulders. “Stop it, Scarlett. Look at me! Look at me right now.”

She sheepishly held my gaze, tears welling in her eyes.

“He’s probably terrified. His father was just killed, and he was taken by strangers to this place. Now I’m here to take him. I’m just another stranger taking him to another strange place—”

“You’re taking your son home, Scarlett,” I said with force, wiping a tear from her cheek. “He needs you. He’s always needed you. He should have never been taken from you to begin with. I don’t care if that’s how things are done here,” I ground out, tears welling in my own eyes as she began to crumble in my arms. “It shouldn’t have happened. It shouldn’t have happened to you and I am sorry. I am so sorry—”

“Are you here to see the boy?” came a light, feminine voice down the hallway.

We both turned our heads at the same time, finding a woman standing a few yards away from us. She gave us both a sympathetic smile, her eyes creasing as she beckoned us over.

“Abel said you looked just like the boy. Look at you,” she took Scarlett’s trembling hand as she came within reaching distance, her fingers closing around Scarlett’s. “Oh, my dear. There is no doubt this child is yours.”

The woman must have sensed the emotional turmoil Scarlett was experiencing. I reluctantly let go of Scarlett, watching as they turned into the mysterious room. The sound of laughter rang through the air, followed by the clanging of toys and little footsteps darting around. There was more than one child in the room… there had to be.

And I was right, I realized, as I crossed the threshold of the doorway and stepped into the light of a large room decorated with all of the colors of the rainbow. At least a dozen children, most under the age of five, zigzagged around the room in a chaotic fashion while four women tended to them.

Scarlett was standing in the center of the room with the kind woman’s hand pressed lightly against her lower back. The woman was speaking softly to Scarlett, her eyes fixed on Scarlett’s face.

But Scarlett was rigid as a statue, her back to me, her eyes focused on a small boy with a gleaming mop of cherry red hair who was playing with blocks in the corner of the room.

My heart was in my throat.

did look exactly like

Someone touched my elbow and I turned around, finding Abe standing beside me, dabbing at a split lip. One of his eyes was red,

meeting my eyes. Then he threw his head back in a

voice slightly wobbly from emotion. I was still reeling from Scarlett’s reunion with her son and had momentarily forgotten

saying I took

You just wanted to get a

her, popping the jar open and handing it back. She scurried off, giggling. “I can’t tell you why because I honestly don’t know. There’s just

the shadow,” I replied, knowing exactly what he was

his head nonetheless. “He had it before he turned twenty-one, you know. It was never a secret that he was a Dark King, or Lord, whatever they call it now. I

paused as the sound of marbles pinging off the

trouble for this,” he breathed, giving one of the women a boyish smile in apology

who was now kneeling beside her son, her shaking hands helping him build a tower. Her face was pale, her mouth stretched in a thin line. But

breath and nodded at Abe, who

warming up to me. I

I asked as

another bandit… maybe even a rogue, but not

I don’t believe for a second it’s because you beat him

that was obviously a lie,” he snorted, leaning back and crossing his legs. He waved a hand over his face, highlighting his injuries. “I mean, look at me. Jared could kill me with just his ice-cold glare of death if he really

I bit back that smile and

arch nemesis? Maybe

his knees, “it’s because I am charming and

the

Jared, I would have had Aeris eating out of my f*****g hands within an hour just by charming him with my words. Jared likes the chase, the hunt, the violent end. He didn’t used to be like that, though. I didn’t like the idea of Jared becoming the leader of our village because I thought it would be bad for him

body as Abe continued,

a solution for his own problem. I realized I’d lost him, and I

like arguing with a

flicked his eyes

maybe I could take the title of leader away from him by force. He nearly killed me. I licked my wounds and went

him… every

you’re in the picture,” he said, clicking his tongue. “Interesting

the curse,” I said,

“I believe you.”

Abe had said those words and meant it, I could see it.

could convince

said, his tone dropping an octave as he changed the subject. “That’s my real work, Eliza. All of them are the

“Really?”

typically upbeat and boyish mask shifted into one of dismay and maybe even violence

territory, every pack, and every village. I would have found Scarlett eventually and reunited her with her son. It was never about a ransom. The packs