Sould As The Alpha King's Breeder

Sold As The Alpha King’s Breeder Chapter 306

Chapter 86: I Can’t Have His Child

Hanna

I didn’t bother to hang my coat up on the hook as I staggered through the door to the small cabin I shared with Kacidra. I tossed the coat to the floor, the thick fabric falling on the wide-plank floorboards in a wet snowy heap.

Kacidra wasn’t home. She had spent the last two nights with Pete, who was living in one of the cabins in the village. They were mates, and the connection had been intense, passionate. I saw the pattern, of course. Troy and Maeve. Ernest and Gemma. Even Keaton, the man who was the captain of the boat that both kidnapped and saw Maeve to safety, had found his mate in Maeve’s friend Myla.

Everyone on this prophesied path was finding their mates, including me. This was the definition of fate.

Apparently, Rowan and Maeve were at the center of it all. And then, there was my role.

| sunk to the floor in front of the couch, my head in my hands, and let myself cry.

I felt nothing but deep, painful guilt after listening to the unnamed old woman’s words. She was my great-aunt, my tie to Gayla, the Seer… Gayla, who must have known what my mother would become and the powers she held, the powers

she would give to one of her children.

I thought of the white roses on the temple grounds, how their

petals had littered the stone pavers after Tasia had destroyed the sanctuary. Tasia, who the people of Lycenna were afraid of but also worshiped. The same way they wanted to worship me.

The people who believed my future child would be the Moon Goddess herself.

But I didn’t have my powers any longer. I didn’t want them back. And I wouldn’t be the Goddess’s vessel of rebirth.

I peeked through my fingers, my eyes clouded with tears.

There was only one thing I could do to end the prophecy, to break the chain of events that were plaguing a family I had grown to love.

I needed to reject Rowan.

I sucked in my breath and wiped the tears from my cheeks, nodding at myself as I silently agreed to the inevitable.

But then there was a knock on the front door, and then a cold rush of air.

“Hanna? Goddess, it’s freezing in here,” Rowan crossed the threshold of the front door, shutting it firmly behind him before stalking toward the neglected wood stove.

I watched him in silence as he crouched in front of it, stoking the dying embers with pieces of kindling until a fire erupted from the ashes once again. He meticulously added pieces of split birch to the woodstove, arranging them in such a way that guaranteed a slow, hot burn. I couldn’t help but smile as | watched him, my heart squeezing in my chest.

Rowan, my Rowan.

He turned around, seeing me sitting against the foot of the couch. “What’s wrong? Are you alright? Maeve told me what happened at the castle.” He stepped forward, kneeling down in front of me and taking my chilled fingers in his.hands. “You’ re cold, Hanna.”

“I have to go home,” I whispered unsure if I meant for him to hear it or if I just needed to say the words aloud.

back so that he faced me with his arms wrapped around

dreading what I

“Why?”

much at stake. I can’t continue to put you and your family

is going to happen?”

but a sadness lingered behind his eyes, something that told me he had

she wants the stones. I need

bring the stones with me when

voice sent a chill up my spine. I looked up at him, his face distorted by the strands of hair that were falling over my

together. The consequences are too

old woman said? About our child being the second-coming of the

don’t you believe that could be possible after everything that’s already happened? A year ago you were just a

year ago was a lifetime ago, Hanna. There is no going back now. I won’t let you run. I won’t let you

“Your family,”

Lycenna is in shambles from what we understand. They are no longer a pack, or a cult, whatever you want to call it! Mom is seeing to the refugees for now, but they mean to continue north, over the ice-pack. What they think they’ll

wolf. She was powerful enough to mortally wound your mother. A White Queen. Imagine what she could do with

is the keeper of the stones, it’s not your

to

only inches from mine, his

face between his

mine. I fought the urge to cry as he pulled away, not

to.

opened my mouth to his, letting him

His mouth moved along my jaw, his fingers tangling in my

over his bare chest. My skin was chilled despite the heat of the woodstove, but his hands were warm against my back. He ran his

whispers of

as he explored me, his mouth moving from mine to my neck to my collarbone, lingering there for a moment before he

let my breath out in a long, pleading moan as the sensation awakened something deep within me. Something I had been holding back for months. Something that could ruin

moan was the only invitation he needed. He

against him as he carried me through the living room and into the tight hallway leading

me on the bed. My heart was pounding against my ribs as he took a step back, looking down at me. Heat flashed behind his eyes as he reached down, his fingers lingering

no, to say yes… to say anything. I swallowed back the mingled fear and despair threatening to take hold of me,

at the foot of the bed. I tried to keep my eyes on his face, afraid to let them wander. This was it for us. I wanted to remember the way he was looking at me right now

exposed to him now. I didn’t try to hide myself. I closed my eyes as he looked at me, and I was able to feel his gaze move from my eyelids

thought he had, because the way his hands ran down the length of my

me thought not, because the way he touched me in all the right places felt as though we

and time again, even though it was the first time. I felt electric. His touch sent sparks shooting down my legs and warmth

to spill over my lashes as I opened my mouth. He ran

gliding against the

“Rowan,” I breathed, “please…”

gone by; I didn’t know for sure. Every second of pain and ecstasy was all part of a drawn-out goodbye. He said my name, the sound of it on

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