Sould As The Alpha King's Breeder

Chapter 109: At the Cost of Her Own Life

Troy

Hayden was sitting on a rock, chewing loudly as he snacked on what looked like a piece of jerky. I grimaced at the sound, shifting my weight to sit more comfortably on the cold dirt floor of the tunnel.

“You’re welcome for the clothes,” Hayden quipped, “I fig ured I could offer you one last kindness by not having your balls dragging in the dirt while we wait for, uh, whatever hap pens.”

“And what exactly is going to happen?” I asked tersely. Hayden shrugged. “Why are you here, exactly?” | asked, gen uinely confused. Hayden was a dumbass, as thick as they come. I found it highly unlikely he had much, if anything, to offer Tasia.

“Carl took a liking to me, I think. I’m not so bad once you get to know me.”

“You’re a rapist and murderer-” | bit out. Hayden chuck led.

“Yeah, well. Whatever world Tasia and Carl are gonna make once they have the stones… it won’t matter. Everyone l’

ve wronged will be dead. A clean slate.”

“You’re the worst,” | mumbled, biting the inside of my cheek as I tried to come up with a plan.

0001 “I had been working with Damian, you know. I knew every

thing he was planning on doing with that map everyone was Tooking for. Damian sent me to Valoria to meet with Carl after you and the princess took off on that pirate ship. I figured Carl and Tasia had more to offer me than Damian did. They said I’d be an Alpha, that I could live in the castle. Stuff like that.”

“In exchange for what?”

“Betraying Damian. Killing him when he returned to Valo ria with whatever the God’s name is… Lyon, whatever-”

“Lycaon,” I corrected.

“Yeah, that’s what I said. Anyway, Damian never came back, and then we got word that the princess had returned to Winter Forest, so… I just hung out with them. Like I said be fore, I did have sex with Tasia-”

“Cool,” I replied dryly. “You realize these people are going to kill you, right? You’re not like them. You’ll be useless to them when this is all over.”

He ignored me, biting into another piece of jerky he had fished out of his jacket pocket.

“I bet they’ || spare Maeve, you know? They’ll need her blood, or whatever.”

| swallowed against the fury, willing myself to keep my mouth shut.

“I bet if I asked, they’d give her to me, you know, as a prize for helping them,”

I bucked against my restraints, the rope binding my hands

behind my back going taunt and biting into my skin.

19. Vouchert

“Oh, calm down, Troy. I’ll be gentle=”

falling rock. I turned my head toward the broken door that was leaned against the entrance to the room, then I heard voices raised in

screams echoed through the tunnel, and I slowly turned my head

| asked, running my tongue along my

jaw flexed, concern glossing over his eyes as an other scream ripped through the tunnel, and then

He was lean and a soft golden brown in the dim light of the handful of oil lanterns that hung on

em’,” I breathed, then winced as Hayden screamed and scrambled from his perch on the rock. Keaton lunged for ward, tackling Hayden to

robbed of his “gentle but somewhat violent giant” look. He hadn’t shifted, but had definitely been fighting by

as he cut through my restraints.

as Hayden began to beg for mercy. “Is it just you and

though. Rosalie ran in here alone, before we could stop her. This is a big tunnel system, left over from

Hanna. They’re likely with Ta sia.

as he led me away from the grisly scene taking place between Keaton and Hayden

“They’re fine. Safe.”

took a strained

more of Tasia’s warriors. With no time to shift, we fought them off one by one. I took the brunt of the beating, my face black and blue with bruises by the time we took down the last man, but finally, we made it into the main part of the tunnel

should shift, it might

that’s true. It took Keaton a long time, and it was

“What? How so?

scream rang out through the tunnel. All of the hair on my body stood on end as I recognized the scream as Maeve’s, and I turned

panting, sweat prickling on his brow as though he

I demanded, my

Keaton, still in his wolf form and finished with Hayden, leapt on Carl,

him pinned to the ground, his

in all kinds of things; blood and dirt and a few sticks stuck in his hair.

took Maeve somewhere, Hanna… I’m not sure. And I

was panicked. He looked down at Carl, who was grimacing under

your

us from the depths of the tunnel. She was just as dirty as the rest of us,

tried to go to her but Ethan held out his hand,

on the walls began to vibrate, their oil-lit flames trembling as the

I looked down at Keaton, who bared his teeth, waiting for the green light to

over!” Carl laughed, grinning

Maeve and pulled her

people watching the safe house. The

You and Robbie. I need to

a knife, and gave me

if it would be the last time

closed the short distance between us, gently taking Maeve

dust and dirt began to fall from

swallowed by the tunnel’s depths as he

| commanded, but Keaton hesitated, an unreadable look flashing in his eyes. He looked down at Carl, who

whole weight into Carl. Carl’s head bounced against the floor on impact, and he was knocked out cold. It was impressive, but I didn’t have a chance to say so. Keaton was trying in

pure agony. He was red and panting by the end of it, shaking as he wobbled and using the wall to support him self. He pointed to the lantern, and

shit. Are you