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 should

her out,” Jake said. He leaned back away and looked at me a bit surprised. “Alpha, are you okay? You

She needs to learn. When you see her again, tell her that next time she won’t be

gaze, “she didn’t faint. You said that once the animals were

surprised. “So… she figured out that I meant to have her

smarter than I’d thought

fed them. Every single one of them, and when I went to check on her, she was… she was petting Linus’s

widened in shock. Linus was

my displeasure was clearly written on my

of the animals quite well. Since she completed the task you as signed

being scared to death by my friends, she’d had a grand time playing with

“Alpha…?”

took me a few seconds to digest this news. Eventually, I narrowed my eyes and scoffed, “Did she really think she

part of your father’s attempt at finding you a wife, right? I worry that if the

what I

his head. “Yes, Alpha. I will make it

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* Ciana*

last of his treats. We were warming up to one another, and I thought the last few days I’d spent bringing him his tasty meals might be enough for him to finally con cede that he liked me, but he was still keeping

mals and I were already good friends. I’d grown up acclimat ing myself to

after they’d had their slabs of

anyone else, this new assignment might be terrifying. They probably would’ve assumed that the uncaged

rather spend my time with these wild creatures than the one

hauling it out to the courtyard where the

if it wasn’t the most glamorous job I’d ever done, I was still much happier here than I’d been with the

meat on the way back to the zoo. My stomach

the pathway, staring

flocking around Sophia like she was already the queen

where they were standing,

his room early in the morning and have her way with him, and now she’s here, picking up lion shit.” All of the girls laughed, but Sophia’s high-pitched giggle

wasn’t worth my time. Instead, I continued to move my bucket of food to

be eaten by the wild beasts… not that they’d find much

I didn’t want to cause trouble, I also wasn’t going to just take the verbal beating without doing anything about it. But before I was able to say anything, a cor dial

“Pardon me?”

eyes deep with concern stared

said, and all of the girls quickly curtsied to the

to waste her time name calling out and poking fun at another young lady, but I do

Highness…” Sophia and the other girls

for them

to find my

been looking for? One way or an other, I had to

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