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=”

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

the tunnel, and I slowly turned

asked, running my tongue along my

as an other scream ripped through the tunnel, and then the

was lean and a soft golden brown in the dim light of the handful of oil lanterns that hung on nails along the walls. Blood dripped from

breathed, then winced as Hayden screamed and scrambled from his perch on the rock. Keaton

but somewhat violent giant”

as he cut through my restraints. “I don’t

began to beg for mercy. “Is it just you and Keaton?” | asked, rubbing my wrists where

seen a Rogue before, Troy? Creepy looking creatures. The Drogomor warriors are takin’ care of ’em, though. Rosalie ran in here alone, before we could

to find Maeve and Hanna. They’re likely with Ta

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

“They’re fine. Safe.”

a strained

far in the tunnel before running into 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

shift,

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

“What? How so?

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

stepped for ward into the lantern light. He was panting, sweat prickling on his brow as though he had been chasing someone.

I demanded, my hands clenched

before Keaton, still in his wolf form

the ground, his

and a few sticks stuck in his hair. He stopped short of us, look ing frantically around the tight

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

down at Carl, who was grimacing under Keaton’s weight, Keaton paw

too late, your

up behind us from the depths of the tunnel. She was just as dirty as the rest of us, but her face was lined with terror. “Oh, Goddess, Dad, we have to-we have to-Mom

to her but Ethan held out

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

pushing Maeve toward me. I looked down at Keaton, who bared

It’s over!” Carl laughed, grinning like an

grabbed Maeve and pulled her to my chest, holding

people watching the

Robbie.

knife, and gave me the most loving, knowing

if it would be

she said in protest, but Robbie had already closed the short distance between us, gently taking

and hurrying her away as dust and dirt began

gone, swallowed by the tunnel’s depths

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

slammed his whole weight into Carl. Carl’s head bounced against the floor on impact, and he was

before Keaton was able to shift, and it was 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

shit. Are