Sould As The Alpha King's Breeder

Chapter 73: Faking Love

I watched his back as he was leaving, and pondered what he just said.

‘I was just passing by.’

That was a lie.

Tallis was hiding something, I knew he was. There was a familiarity about him that I just couldn’t shake. It was this air of calm and cold that he carried. I had felt it once before and only with one other person.

But could it be?

I had asked him numerous times and each time he refuted my claims. He was not the somber prince I knew.

So why did they both carry the same aura?

I shook my head thinking I had lost my damn mind. First the fake Ciana and now this. My problems and questions kept piling up with each passing day.

It didn’t matter now though. I had more important matters to attend to.

My mind was turning fast. Fake Ciana had professed her undying love to Warren. This was what I had been hoping for. Phase one of the plan was complete and now it was time to move onto phase two.

Whoever Tallis was, he could wait.

I turned on my heel ready to walk back to where fake Ciana and Warren had been, but I slammed into a warm wall.

I stumbled a few steps back before a pair of strong arms came out and caught me.

“You okay there, Ciana?”

Warren helped me to steady myself.

“Yeah,” I looked up at him. “Where is the other Ciana? What happened? I had to leave because…”

My voice trailed off as the words got stuck in my throat. I didn’ t want to worry Warren. He had a tendency to somehow shift blame of every bad thing that happens onto himself, especially when it regarded me.

I often thought that he had too much honor at times. I wished he would be a little less chivalrous.

“Because?” He pressed.

“It’s nothing. Now tell me what’s going on with her?”

Warren stepped closer, crossing into that imaginary bubble l had around me.

“What happened, Ciana?” His eyes held mine.

“I told you nothing.”

“It doesn’t sound like nothing. Your heart’s racing, you have that little nervous nose twitch you do when you’re hiding something. So spill it.”

I stood still for a moment in complete shock. “How do you know about the twitch?”

He rolled his eyes. “I notice everything about you, Black. Now spill it.”

I let out a sigh and bit down on my lip. “Hawke came by.”

now, he probably has heard about Hawke a few times, both from me catching him up

His voice was tight and

he may have tried to harass me, a little bit,” I blurted out. “But he was drunk and he had two broken arms so he wasn’t really that much

“I need to

mind. In a situation like this, if it was Theo, he probably would just beat Hawke up….like Tallis had

hand out and grabbed his arm. “No need

“Tallis?”

we aren’t talking about Hawke. We are talking about you

somber look overtook Warren’s face. My heart immediately dropped and I felt

agreed to

to my body and I bounced on the balls of my feet. “This is great news! You are the best!

get me wrong, I am happy for the progress. But it’s just…I feel like I’m

slipped from my face. “I

girl, fake you, loves me. She actually loves me for real and I just lied to her. I told her I loved her too and told her I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her. What kind of

up toward him and placed my hand on his chest right above his heart. I could feel the strong thumping on my palm. It was racing and I didn’t know whether it was from guilt or nerves. But whatever

no business feeling guilty for this. If anything, all of this was my

now I will tell you again. What you are doing for me is a service that I will never be able to repay you for. However, please don’t feel guilty for what

locked his gaze on me, waiting for me

of all, this girl is not fully innocent. She has taken my identity and is trying to take over my home.

I want that for

nodded. “That being said, she can’t keep my identity forever. The most important thing is that she didn’t want this life. I could tell. No one would want to be someone else for the rest of their lives. So you’re helping her. You’re helping her to get out of here and get away from

Warren’s expression was

her. She might feel bad once she finds out you don’t really love her, but by then, at least she

leaned his forehead against mine and let out one long breath that fanned

he pulled away he offered me a

“Do what?”

when to say it.” He tucked away a stray piece of hair that had come

my throat trying to make light of the

I stepped away from

walked away from the

alliance ceremony would be in two days. That was when we

go through, both Luther and Ciana would need to present. If Ciana suddenly went missing due

was stage one of the plan. The other stage

was it really stealing if it belonged to my parents? Depends

been going over everything for the past two

meet her tonight?”

need to keep

the table. “We can convene again tomorrow. Go

it to come out a little light hearted but he didn’t

know that right? I can tell her something came

I shouldn’t have joked about it,” I

“You’re forgiven,” he smiled.

needs to believe you two are madly in love, though. Unfortunately, for the sake of our plan, it would be better

He sighed, “Okay.”

said our goodbyes and went our

lot of the pressure off my back. He made this serious

decided to take a

had flipped yet again. But like my father had always taught me, I would brave the storm. Because that was exactly