Sould As The Alpha King's Breeder

Chapter 43 The Dungeon

*Theo*

“Where shall we take him, my lady?” one of the guards asked Sophia as I stood in front of them, wearing the torn remains of my guard pants.

Sophia puzzled over me, stroking her chin with one finger as she thought about what to do with me. I knew that Ciana was panicking back behind me in the garden area still, near where all of the shredded rose bushes lay, but there were guards between us.

“Take him down to the basement,” Sophia said. “I saw some kind of cages down there. Put him in one of those.”

I snickered, knowing she couldn’t legally hold me. After all, ‘she wasn’t yet married to the king, so she wasn’t the Luna Queen. She had absolutely no authority whatsoever to take me prisoner or hold me in a dungeon.

But I went along with her, all of it part of the plan.

“You can’t do that!” Ciana shouted.

I turned and looked at her, willing her to be quiet. She had to know by now that I was up to something, didn’t she? The panicked look on her face said otherwise.

Was she really worried about me? That silly woman…

It was nice to think that she might care a little bit about what happened to me, but in reality, she was probably just concerned that we’d never get back to our own reality if I was locked up somewhere and not able to help with our plan.

In the basement, I immediately noticed that it was not a dungeon. There were bars here and there that formed different areas, but I saw telltale signs that this room held lots of secrets. I had to wonder who had lived here before Sophia and what kinds of activities they might have used the area for.

It wasn’t to hold people as prisoners, not for long anyway. Of that, I was fairly certain.

“This’ll teach you!” one of the guards said as he shoved me behind a flimsy barrier of bars.

“Yeah, he’ll die down here! Starve to death!” another one laughed.

They all traipsed up the stairs, and I shook my head. Getting out of there would take me less than five minutes.

But that wasn’t what I had in mind.

it than that, and I intended to discover exactly what

the different way that the rocks fit together, searching for some sort of weakness, a breach in the strong hold. A few areas interested me more than others. I thought I saw a

bars out of nowhere. “You had to go and destroy all of those rose bushes and get yourself

on her face actually made me feel good. What the heck was wrong with

addressed her. “It’s not as bad as you think. Didn’t you notice how

her better than she thought I did. I saw the way that she was always looking at every place

she asked me.

my head at her. “I don’t think

saw him traipsing over to the other side of the bars to stand beside her. “What in the world happened?”

it made me want to lash out irrationally at him. How dare he choose to be

actually work in our favor if Warren

“Well, if it isn’t the high and mighty king,” I said, my eyes narrowing as I felt a darkness settle over my countenance. “Who do you think you are? If

He and Ciana were

of there so I could teach him a lesson. No longer caring that it would be better to do this behind his back, I

first as her hands went shooting up in the air. Warren’s did, too, but I wasn’t

both of them had been standing over the trapdoor I’d just triggered when the mechanism was

shouted, diving forward to try to grab her through the bars. She was a bit on the edge of the part of the floor that fell away, so I hoped I might be able to reach her or that she might be able to

disappeared beneath the floor almost immediately, but Ciana’s hand darted out to catch the lip of the opening. I dropped to my knees and shoved my hand through, straining to reach her. Just as my fingers grazed the back of her knuckles, she lost her grasp and disappeared

my ass. That had not been what I had in mind at

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*Ciana*

and my eyes refused to open at

painful.

enchanted forests in my time since I loved to chase animals and explore, but I’d never been to any

off and on all around us, and when I tried to get a sense of just how many fireflies were flickering as they fluttered by, I knew it would be

shins, so I wasn’t completely immersed in it, thank goodness, or I likely would’ve drowned. Something told me I

on the ground next to me, and it was clear that his injuries were worse than mine. His face was pale, and his

Open your eyes.” I slapped his cheeks a little until he began to blink. Then, he opened his eyes, and I could see he was just

we?” he asked.