Sould As The Alpha King's Breeder

Chapter 121 I Hadn’t Missed The Birth of Our Baby

**Ethan’s POV

“Keep pushing them!’I shouted to my warriors using the mind-link, watching yet another line of our enemies break. Dozens of wolves gave way, their line crumbling as my superior forces came over a ridge and bore down on them, their snouts dripping with blood as they gnashed their teeth and howled up at the sky.

Thung back a bit to survey the situation, though I’d had my share of torn muscle and blood in my mouth and beneath my claws. We were winning, pushing them back, and it wouldn’t be long until this force was routed as well.

We would win this war. I couldn’t wait!

And then, I would run to Rosalie, and would never leave her side.

‘Press forward!’ I told them, taking a few steps forward myself to join them, when suddenly a strange sensation overcame me.

The world seemed to turn on its side, and I swayed slightly, trying to keep my balance as a pain in my abdomen radiated throughout me. It ebbed and flowed for a moment but then shifted, and that tug, that magnetic pull I’d felt so many times before when my baby was near, hit me so strongly, I nearly had to sit down.

Like a powerful wave crashing down on me, the pull lunged at my abdomen, tugging on my insides, and the sensation that everything within me was about to come out was overwhelming. But it wasn’t painful. It was a slipping, sliding motion, like going down a slide, and it was freeing in a way I couldn’t explain. The pain had only lasted a moment, and then it was gone.

Almost as quickly as it had come, the entire moment dissipated, and I found myself standing back on the battlefield, watching my warriors disappear over the ridge. The world had righted itself, the tug was only the minor pull that had never released me since I’d learned that Rosalie was alive, and the pain was the shadow of an ache that always remains after an injury.

I blinked a few times and looked around. No one was paying any attention to me. My entire world had just shifted, and no one had even noticed.

What did this mean?

My heart was thumping. Was that…my child?

I had no way of knowing for sure, but I took note of where the sun was in the sky so I’d have some idea of what time it was. I knew the date already.

Someday, I would find out exactly when my child was born, and I’d want to know if the birth corresponded to what just happened to me.

Rosalie could run to the ends of the earth, but she couldn’t sever the bonds I felt with my child, or with her.

Nothing could ever dissolve the connection I had with them, and what I had just experienced was all the proof I needed that I was meant to be with my baby-and her.

With the feeling inside of me that I was meant to be elsewhere, that my child was coming now, I surged up the ravine, attempting to join my troops in the rout of the enemy. ‘Keep the line together!’ I commanded using the mind

-link, but just as I crested the top of the high ground, a sharp pain hit me low in the abdomen. It was unlike anything I’d ever experienced before.

I felt my knees buckle, and even though I knew I hadn’t been injured, I found myself falling.

Gravity claimed me, and my body tumbled down the slope. It wasn’t far, but the ground was rocky, and as I fell, I was aware that the old wounds I had received in other battles, and even those I had gotten while fighting against Soren were opening up. The scent of blood filled my lungs as I came to a halt at the bottom of the ravine.

i lay there for a moment, trying to get my bearings, but that blinding pain I’d experienced before, one completely unrelated to any of my wounds, took over, preventing me from standing.

A few enemy wolves spotted me, and in a blink of an eye, four of them surrounded me. I fended off two of them but the third leaped on me and pinned me down, as the fourth opened his mouth to try to penetrate my side with his sharp fangs…

Shit!

I could feel the blood around my neck leaking out, but the other two wolves also had gotten up from the ground and were coming back for me. Suddenly, the one that was biting me loosened up and collapsed.

Alpha? Are you okay?’ One of my warriors finally noticed my situation and was able to rush back to help.

I’m fine,’ I told him, using the mind-link. Thanks, man.’I felt some cold sweat. That was really close.

But then. I wasn’t able to move, and the pain wasn’t letting up. I tried to control my breathing for a few seconds, and when I was finally able to move again, I started dashing back to our base. As soon as I reached the safe range, could no longer hold my strength, and crumbled on the ground.

moments, warriors in their human forms were there, lifting me off of the

wanted was to be carried from the battlefield, but at least we were winning. ‘Don’t worry, Alpha!’ Richard said, his wolf looking confident. ‘We’ve got

.

body was so intense, even when I opened my mouth to speak,

this horrendous pain, especially since I didn’t know

enough not to evacuate when the enemy troops came close. As they carried me down the main street, many of them came out to stare at me, and then, I heard an

“Alpha Ethan Gray!”

were carrying me stopped in their tracks. I lifted my head slightly to see her

hunched shoulders and long, gray hair that fell in tangled curls down to her waist. Her face was wrinkled, and her eyes were nearly white

scent. She wasn’t a wolf, after all. I could tell she was a human-or at least, not a shifter-by her own

was something

much authority in it that my men obeyed despite the fact that she

even the mind-link was a struggle, I was in pain,

to my mind…could it be Rosaile?! Was she in

the woman said, and I was lowered down onto a

control over their minds. They immediately did exactly as she said, leaving me alone with the strange, sightless woman in a dark one-room hut where

leg, and immediately. I felt myself begin to

cracking of bones and snapping of tendons as my fur disappeared and my skin replaced it signaling that I had no choice but to switch back into my human

could muster, I grabbed a blanket and tossed it over myself, noting that the wound in my side had split open, and most

demanded. My eyes moved to lock onto hers. “Do you know the source

couldn’t respond verbally, but I knew the answer

face flickered before my

wear the calm, serene expression I was hoping

was scrunched up, her

pain I was feeling had no origin

It originated within her.

if the level of pain I was feeling was any indication, I had to think there was something wrong-something very,

her, Alpha Ethan,” the woman told me. “Your strength is of no use to her, but she has the

I

her!” the woman

was floating away on a fog bed. My mind went blank for a moment, and

house where Rosalie had been living when I’d

looked just as it had when I’d envisioned her before. It was clear she was exhausted. Her eyes

haze separated us, and I knew I wasn’t really there, not

thought, if I could see her, perhaps

My fingers touched her warm, clammy skin, and she turned her head to look at me. “Rosalie, come on! You can do

slightly and she murmured, “Ethan?

other end of the bed. “Doctor, we’re

turned to see it was that midwife, the woman who’d been helping her so much. I couldn’t recall her name. There was also a

at the bed and I understood

to coat everything. It was even dripping onto the floor, I

remember ever seeing so much

I shouted at the two standing

though, and as I heard a baby’s wails fill

had entered the world, and while the baby seemed to be okay and lying

losing too much blood!”

her chin and lifting it slightly so she’d have

moaned. “I can’t…. It