Sould As The Alpha King's Breeder

Chapter 23 Sharing A Room with Him

Lightning illuminated the sky above us, and I wrapped the raincoat Warren had packed for me tighter, but it wasn’t doing me a whole lot of good.

To avoid being tracked down by the city security, who reported directly to Theo, we intentionally avoided public transportation until we got outside of the greater capital city

area.

It had been raining for hours, and I was beginning to feel drowsy from trudging through the mud in such foul weather. I sneezed, again, this time barely getting my arm up to cover my face, and I willed myself to keep walking.

Warren was concerned about me, and he had been for the last few hours since I’d begun to cough and sneeze. He wanted to shift and let me climb on his back, but I’d refused. We would save that for if we were in danger. Right now, I was miserable, but I wasn’t going to die.

“I see city lights off in the distance, Ciana,” he told me. “We’re almost to a town.”

His words entered my mind, but I was having trouble processing them. Unless it was a town with a giant bubble over the top of it that would protect me from the rain, I didn’t

care.

Trudging on, I began to lose most of my conscious thought. I just continued to lift one foot and then the other. Eventually, I

noticed that Warren was guiding me, his arm around me, and then, the mud of the forest changed to open green grass, to pavement, to a sidewalk… to steps.

“Where are we going?” I muttered.

“A hotel,” he explained. “You need to rest and recover.”

“Let’s find a small one,” I mumbled my explanation. “Fewer security cameras around.”

“Good point!” He chuckled under his breath and commented, “You surprise me all the time, you know that?”

“Goodness gracious!” a loud female voice proclaimed. “You poor dears look half drowned.”

“Yes, we need a couple of rooms, please,” Warren explained to her as I leaned against his side to keep from falling over.

“I’m afraid I only have one,” the woman said. “But it’s got a big bed in it.”

“That will do.” Warren held on to me as he fished out payment for the room from beneath his raincoat, and I wrapped my arm around his middle to steady myself, my eyes locked on the floor where a puddle was forming from all the water dripping off of me.

I wanted to apologize to the custodial staff for making such a

mess.

Halfway up the stairs, I lost my footing and almost tumbled back down, despite Warren’s grip on me.

“All right, that’s it,” he proclaimed, and the next thing I knew, I was being lifted off of the steps into his arms. I didn’t protest. Even if I’d wanted to, the words wouldn’t come out of my mouth.

Once we were in the room, he helped me out of my raincoat, and then I insisted that I could change into dry clothes myself. I went into the bathroom and took a shower with very warm water, which I enjoyed.

the room wearing fresh dry clothes, Warren had also changed. He looked at me very concerned. “I think this is worse than just a cold,” he told

at him, but even that seemed to be moving in slow motion.

being in that hideous dungeon for all of that time has left your immune system weak, Ciana. Climb into bed,

I didn’t have a problem crawling into the nice warm bed. The next thing I knew, a spoon was being coaxed into my mouth. I split my lips and slurped

Had I fallen asleep?

he said, “I’ll go see if I can find a pharmacy that’s still

shook the entire establishment. “No…” I muttered; my mind was cloudy. “It’s not safe. You’ll catch

breath. “I think I’ll

a… good

“Unlike what?”

head was so heavy and I felt I couldn’t think straight, but it didn’t prevent me from concluding my thoughts about Theo, “…an

disagree with you, I know you’re delirious

the side, and I noticed the print on the wallpaper. It was a fleur-de-lis

to say something

of someone helping me with liquids and medicines, but for the most

had a lot of strange dreams, and although I couldn’t remember the details, I knew

it

that Theo had been kissing

at the hostel, I awoke with a start, much like I had when I’d snapped out of

was sitting in a chair across the

awakens!” he teased, causing me

was I asleep?” I stretched

he said with a grin.

out in the rain to get me medicine and fed me soup.

but he nodded. “I wanted you to get

how much I appreciate it. Thank you!” He was such a good man. “We should be on our way soon so that you can get back to

now.”

are. Besides, it’s getting kind of late. It’s been a bright, sunny day, but it’ll

me any good to try to talk him out of it, so I nodded. “All right then. I’m going to go outside and get

idea,” he said.

around back, full of bright flowers that

like I had slept for a long time, that was for sure. My hair was sticking up all over the place, and I had a crease on my face from

help but chuckle at

quaint bench beneath a tree full of fuchsia blooms, next to several rose bushes in a variety of vibrant colors made me feel at peace for the first time

to think only positive thoughts, but my mind kept going back over everything that had happened in the castle. I thought about Prince Theo and how, for a while, I’d thought

had me thrown in prison for doing nothing wrong. No, I was certain now that he truly was

what had unfolded while I was at the

dream

seemed

there was Warren. My long-lost

he had any memory whatsoever of being in the woods in

I hadn’t had the courage to