Sould As The Alpha King's Breeder

Chapter 6: My Prince Charming

*Theo*

My eyes were focused on the files in front of me, but my thoughts were elsewhere. The scent of blood lingered in my office even after the cleaners had spent hours scrubbing my office upside down, and after all the furniture was replaced.

There was a knock on the door and I looked up to see Jake standing there. I was expecting him. “Any luck tracking down the assassins?” | started with my question.

He shook his head as he crossed the room to stand in front of my desk. “Nothing yet. I’ve got a team working on it.”

I nodded. I had figured as much. “Their entrance and exit was quick… too quick.”

“I agree. I believe they knew the palace quite well. We haven’t found a single trace of them anywhere. This was defi nitely a professional job,” my Beta said.

I considered his words and found them to be in line with what I had experienced. This was a crafty enemy. Not just anyone could’ve pulled it off. “What did Father have to say about the whole thing?”

“I haven’t spoken to him about it yet. I doubt he knows.”

“Very well. Leave it to me.”

“Alpha, you want to-”

“Father doesn’t trust anyone,” I reminded him. “Even me.”

“Of course, Alpha.” He paused and then asked, “So… why did you spare the girl?”

The girl.

A streak of anger flared up inside of me thinking about her. How dare she speak to me like that?

After taking a deep breath, I replied, “If she’s smart, she won’t say a word to anyone, especially not now.” She was in the zoo, after all, and that should teach her a lesson.

“Uhm, about that.”

“Yes?” My eyes went back to Jake’s face, wondering what he wanted to say about her.

He inhaled deeply, held it for a second, and then in a timid voice not matching his girth, he replied, “I think you may have underestimated this girl.”

| raised a brow and studied him for a moment before seeking clarification. “Underestimated her how? Are you say ing she’s one of them?” That wasn’t possible, a tiny thing like her, covered in dirt….

“No, no. I’ve done a thorough background check on her. She’s definitely not one of them. That’s not what I meant, Al pha.”

“Well, then what is it, Jake?” | asked, growing more irritat ed by the second. “Unless…” | paused for a second, and frowned, “they have disobeyed my orders and actually harmed her?”

“They” meaning my animals. But how could that be possi ble? They had never done anything against my orders.

Then again, that girl just seemed to be a magnet for trou ble. What if they really…

“No, not that either.”

I’d been holding a bit longer than I

let her out,” Jake said. He leaned back away and looked at

learn. When you see her again, tell her that next time she won’t be so lucky, and

gaze, “she didn’t faint. You said that

“So… she figured out that I meant to have her literally feed the

smarter than I’d thought

quickly. She fed them. Every single one of them, and

eyes widened in shock. Linus

my displeasure was clearly written

animals quite well.

friends, she’d had

“Alpha…?”

this news. Eventually, I narrowed my eyes and scoffed, “Did she really think she

finding you a wife, right? I worry that if the king

heard what I

“Yes, Alpha. I

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* Ciana*

Theo’ s pet python the last of his treats. We were warming up to one another, and I thought the last few days I’d spent bringing him

though. The other ani mals and I were already good friends. I’d grown up acclimat ing myself to wild beasts, so this menagerie was

they’d had their slabs of

new assignment might be terrifying. They probably would’ve assumed that the uncaged animals would eat them alive, but it was

I’d much rather spend my time with these wild creatures than the one that occupied the wing where I’d

kept in a shed on the other end of the palace, and every day, I had to make multiple trips hauling it out to the courtyard where the animals lived. That was the only complaint I had about this task-the buckets were heavy, the smell of flesh always made my stomach turn, and there was also the

I’d been with the group of

way back to the zoo. My stomach turned even more at the sight of

the other end of the pathway,

girls, who were from smaller packs, flocking around Sophia like she was already the queen and they wanted

to move the bucket past where they were standing, so I heard their nasty comments as I

seduce the prince, sneak into his room early in the morning and have her way with him, and now she’s here, picking

didn’t even bother to look over at her. She wasn’t worth my time. Instead, I continued to

de serves to be eaten by the wild

to just take

“Pardon me?”

and caught my breath. The morning sun radiated off of his dark hair. His dark eyes deep with concern stared down at Sophia, and I couldn’t move. All

all of the girls quickly curtsied

her time name calling

Sophia and the

He gestured for them to leave the area, and

but unable to find my voice. He moved closer and stopped right in front

for? One way

said in an apologetic tone, even though there was nothing he should have