Sold AS The alpha King's Breeder

Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder Chapter 849

Chapter 55 : Things Left Unsaid

*Eliza*

I’d simply unlocked Abel’s door and walked away, not bothering to shut it behind me. I was not making any more deals or bargains with the men in this realm, not anymore… never again.

My footsteps echoed through the house as I climbed the grand stone staircase to the second story. I passed a maid who was bustling by, a basket of laundry clutched to her chest. She gave me a kind smile and a bob of her head as she passed, tilting her head down the hallway from which she’d come to where a door was slightly ajar, light spilling into the darkness.

I glanced back at the staircase, half expecting Abel to be hot on my heels, but he wasn’t.

I walked into our room, finding Scarlett sitting up in the bed, her knees tucked into her chest. The hair around her face was damp, and her brow was gleaming with sweat. Her cheeks burned a deep crimson as she slowly looked up at me, shivering.

“What happened?” I said with force, slamming the door and locking it behind me before hurrying over to her.

She pulled her legs into her chest until she was as small as possible, her eyes welling with tears. I could feel… heat coming off of her, like she was burning with a fever.

“The man with the scar… he came in and asked me a bunch of questions. I couldn’t stop–stop talking. I answered everything he asked. I don’t know why, but I just couldn’t lie to him or refuse to answer. His eyes were just… I couldn’t look away from him even if I tried.”

I narrowed my eyes as I scanned her for injuries, my own cheeks flaming with sudden fury. Of course… this made sense. Abel separated us on purpose. I should have seen something like this coming, but I’d been a fly in his web of lies and manipulation.

“Did he hurt you?”

She shook her head, clutching her legs.

“He said I can see my son tomorrow. He said he believed me. He believed when I told him about the Alpha who bought me… I told him everything, Eliza, every detail. I couldn’t stop. I asked him to let–to let me stop talking–”

“What do you mean?”

She looked at me, her eyes blurred by tears.

“He had some power over me. It… it felt like magic. I could taste it.”

I could almost taste the magic she was talking about. The memory of that metallic tang coating my mouth was forever etched into my mind after my experience with the witch. I stared at her for a moment, then gently rested my hand on her shoulder. She leaned into me, whimpering.

“I’ve never talked about it to anyone before,” she whispered against my shoulder.

“I’m so sorry,” I whispered, meaning every word. I closed my eyes and held her until her whimpering quieted and she slowly laid down, her tears staining her pillow.

“I get to see him tomorrow,” she whispered. “They’re going to let me see him.”

let us take him home tomorrow,” I breathed, pulling the

which worried me. I wasn’t sure what Lock was, but if he had powers like this… powers that could make people tell him things they hadn’t wanted

laid the back of my fingers

among other things. And I wasn’t going to be nice about

beside her, the room cast in blue-hued shadows as a full moon illuminated the room. I found myself on edge as the hours ticked by, unable to sleep. I was sure someone would come into the room,

just as the sky began to turn

***

of the windows as we waited, and waited, and

late morning with a note from

a sad face and a broken heart

I muttered,

wringing her hands together. “What do

took me to his bedroom last night

“What?” she hissed.

a look, rolling my eyes as I slumped

me to help him convince Jared to ally with him against Aeris in

said something could be “arranged.” I’d expected him to ask me to sleep with him, and found

Jared and

my fingers against my knees. I sighed, sinking a little lower into the armchair. “I kind of feel like Abel

“Miss him?”

talked about him, I can’t really explain it. Abel’s actually really nice.

were both being considered as the leader of the crew after Rhett died,”

portrait of him in the library at Jared’s house. He’d been a handsome middle-aged man when

said it would be between the two of them on his dying breath, apparently. It was several years before I came to the village, actually. Half of the crew wanted Jared, and the

doesn’t sound so

knock on the door. We turned to face the door just as

seen him without the hood of his cloak shielding his face. I could see that he was once a handsome man, but not anymore, not with that scar that ran from temple to opposite cheek blurring the sharp

to meet Abel outside in an hour, and he will take you to your son,” he said directly to Scarlett, who was frighteningly

eyes shifted to mine, narrowing on me. I glared right

turning back to the window. “That feels like a lifetime and… too soon, all at the same

saw him?” I asked,

took him away right after he was born. I didn’t even get

shattered around her

way he could possibly remember who I am to

said softly, meeting her eyes as

***

sunny day when we stepped out of Abel’s house and walked into the village center. Abel was walking a few paces

he said softly, glancing from me to Scarlett, who was lost