Sould As The Alpha King's Breeder

Chapter 139 The Truth Of Soren’s Past

**Soren’s POV

“Don‘t you think it‘s time we went back home?” Thomas asked me as the two of us stood in my tent late one evening. “The war is practically over now, Soren. Your uncle needs you back home to help him regroup.”

I took a deep breath and let it out slowly, not feeling the need to explain myself to my subordinate. “Not now,” I told him. It was short and to the point, and that‘s all he needed.

“But you have to understand, Soren, no one expected Ethan to act that way! After he was banished… he actually attacked your uncle! He went right into that camp and bit his f*cking arm off! The man has clearly lost his mind.”

I shook my head. “I don‘t want to hear anything else about my d*mn brother, all right?” I told him. “He doesn‘t matter anymore.”

“Wait, what?” Thomas asked me. “I thought… if Ethan doesn‘t matter anymore, then why the h*ll are we looking for Rosalie? You‘re not trying to get her back to hurt him?”

I dropped my gaze to the floor. Thomas didn‘t need to know my motivation. “It’s more complicated than that,” I muttered.

“More complicated? Soren… the queen is pregnant with the heir, so Ethan‘s baby is nothing now. If you‘re not trying to get back at him, then what is it?”

I shook my head. “Leave all of that to me,” I told him.

“Oh, I see,” he said, his lips pursed together as he gave me a disapproving look.

Glowering at him, I said, “Thomas, I‘ll remind you that you‘re not in charge here.”

“Yes, sir,” he said, his eyes narrowed. “It‘s just… with Kal‘s forces being pushed back after he was injured, I think it‘s best if we leave the north and go back home. They‘re in a full retreat now! The East has had all the time in the world to move in and drive them back since he‘s been injured. Having the queen carrying a child didn‘t get rid of Ethan, instead, it backfired on us, and indirectly caused our king‘s suffering.”

Finally, I agreed with something he said. “I warned my uncle to never underestimate Ethan. I personally told him I thought it was better if he didn‘t get so close to Mirage in person. But the b*stard didn‘t listen. He wanted to feel the glory of winning the war himself.”

I shook my head in disgust. “He said he wanted to see his enemies fall with his own eyes. Now, Uncle Kal is eating the consequences of his own arrogance.” I rested my hand on the table, thinking about how foolish the king had been to go

about things the way he had.

He never listened to me, and now he was the one suffering for

“And Romero?” Thomas said with a chuckle. “It serves his *ss right to be locked up by King James for what he did, trying to play both sides. I never did trust that guy.”

“No, I knew better than to trust him, too,” I told him. “He‘s no longer useful to James, so he had no trouble locking him up for his betrayal.” An image of Romero suffering in a dungeon cell filled my mind, making me want to laugh.

“So… you‘re not at all interested in going back to the islands?” Thomas asked me again, a look of disbelief on his face. “You don‘t care that Damian‘s claiming to be the new Alpha of the islands? Don‘t you want to go back and force his *ss out of your land?”

I sneered, “Romero let me use the island as part of the deal he had with my uncle. It wasn‘t mine to begin with. Anyway, at the moment, I have more important things to worry about than that asshole. I‘ll take care of him later.”

“Because now you‘re here, trying to find Rosalie and her baby, because….”

Anger flared up in me as I understood exactly what he was getting at. “Maybe if you had done a better job of preventing Rosalie and her baby from fleeing the island to begin with we

be in this predicament,

my fault!” Thomas argued, “How was anyone supposed to know Seraphine would be so conniving and betray

point there. I never would‘ve expected Seraphine to tell Rosalie the truth and stab me in the back like that. I had been under the impression that the midwife was loyal to

to show that you

guess that means we‘re not

Ro~”

holding up a finger. “Do you hear that?” I asked him, stepping over to the door of the tent. Something wasn‘t right. I had an odd feeling inside of my stomach, and I thought I smelled something different

“What?” Thomas asked, huffing.

anything,” I told him. “Nothing at

but so

It made no sense that it

that everyone was gone. Thomas followed me, and we took a few steps around, staying together, knowing something wasn‘t right. 

had us both panicked as a fon of troops poured out from every

are these bastards?” Thomas

sure,” I told

the others as a muscular middle–aged

as I recognized the haggard face. An unforgettable jagged scar marred the left side of his face, running from his ear

was him! The one that hunted me when I was young, the one who haunted me in my nightmares for

show up again? Did Ethan send him after me again? How did Ethan know I was

coming right at me, and

that they had me completely surrounded. “Where

nose up at me and glared down at me. “You think you‘re so f*cking smart, but you‘re just

be good at is ruining

lash out at him, to demand he tell me where my men were right then, but how

childhood came flooding back through

inch away from mine, he lowered his voice and growled out, “I told

was he

lose his arm and go

I realized exactly what scarface was

had always assumed they‘d been sent by

me.

the case at all. It was Kal! My own uncle, the man who I thought saved me, and

get my revenge.

to the public that I was his nephew because I thought he wanted to protect me. I didn‘t mind taking care of all of his dirty work for him with

agree with him on a lot of things, but that was fine. I‘d

now he wanted me dead?! Because I couldn‘t help him win the war, and I wasn‘t useful to him any more, so he wanted

chill and splintered down my back as I asked again, “Where

smile split his face. “They were disrespectful to

over me as the faces of all of the men who‘d come with me to the north flashed before my eyes. They had trusted me

were dead, every single one

me. Using