Sould As The Alpha King's Breeder

Chapter 74: I’ll Take That as a Yes.

Alright, Tallis and Theo might be two different people, but they both could be jerks!

Since the conversation with Tallis didn’t go anywhere, I decided to call it a night.

But what I didn’t expect was a group of thick, muscular thugs that appeared from nowhere, blocking my way back to my parents’ house. They snickered and closed in around me.

“What do you want?” I asked harshly.

“They don’t want anything. However, we have an unfinished score to settle,” Hawke’s angry, frustrated voice barked out from behind the thugs.

“I didn’t do anything to you,” I insisted, crossing my arms and trying to act more like a guy.

“Well, the last time we spoke, I ended up knocked out and face down in the dirt. You’re telling me that you had nothing to do with that?” Hawke shouted viciously.

Apparently, he remembered more than I hoped. He wasn’t drunk tonight, either.

“Grab this little twit!” Hawke ordered.

His thugs jumped at me. I jumped back, but they’d already closed in around me and one caught me from behind. All four of them grabbed my arms and legs and pinned me down to the ground.

I struggled against them, hissing and trying to bite whatever got close to my mouth. Hawke’s thugs were too well trained and they were too strong!

“Hold that little swine down. I’m going to teach him a lesson for messing with me,” Hawke chuckled, shoving the toe of his boot into the ground.

Now that I was eye level with his boots, I could see they were steel toed. If he kicked me with those, he’d break every bone in my body. I had to stall him.

“That’s funny, seeing as the last time we met, you seemed to be interested in me, regardless of me being a boy,” I hissed, still struggling against his cronies holding me down.

One of them nearly let me go as his head whipped around to Hawke.

Hawke sneered and shook his head. “Don’t listen to this piece of crap. He’s just trying to mess with you. Hold him steady.”

Nothing I said now would turn their heads. Whether they were all loyal to Hawke or to Hawke’s cunning dad, it wouldn’t save me a good beating.

Hawke pulled his foot back, knee bent, ready to deliver a horrible kick to my side. I closed my eyes and held my breath, waiting for the heavy blow.

It never came.

“What the…”

I opened my eyes just as a pack of wild animals burst from the forest and attacked Hawke.

“Get them off, get them off!” Hawke screeched, flapping his partially broken arms around like he was fending off a swarm of bees.

His cronies ran at him, trying to pull the beasts away, but when

they got close, some of the smaller ones, the squirrels and rabbits, jumped on them and bit them. All of them were screaming and floundering around like they were on fire.

and rubbed my sore arms. Hawke looked so pathetic, trying to fight off a gaggle of wild

of wild animals pushed Hawke and his group further and

to have been summoned by someone. I glanced around

the trees. He could also organize an

believe in

be some sort of connection between Theo

and I went after Tallis. As soon as I started approaching

to evade me, which made me think he didn’t want me to see him and made it even

I called, reaching out to grab his arm before

and pulled away

doing? Why are you following me? I told you, I’ m not who you think I am. How many times do I have to ask you to leave me

out some other way

I’m not after you for that. Can you just wait a minute,

walking. He didn’t turn to face

closer to him. “It is different this time because I

to me, one eyebrow arched. “Is that supposed

to show I wasn’t joking. “Hawke has come

been lucky, but if I stay

continue.”

“So?” Tallis asked sharply.

stay with the traveling carnival. Can I stay with you? I can’t go back to the

at me. He was so surly and grumpy all the time. I almost thought he was more intolerable than the Dark Prince. Yet, here

wrong with

myself that I had a valid reason to

have a safe place to stay. So, can I stay with you?” | asked again, pleading

but he hadn’t flat out denied me, either. I decided to take that as a

quiet. It seemed like most of

still up and he

just waved in

my eyes at him. He couldn’t even spare his friendly, charismatic brother a friendly

with you, Tallis?” Nelson

going to stay with me,” Tallis grumbled in a

look. “Would it kill you

Take That as a

a tear from his eye. “Yes, m’boy, it would probably kill Tallis to be

his head.

friends?”

and I went into Nelson’s curtain office. He had a hot plate going with a big

ladle into the steaming broth and lifting

I admitted, my stomach growling

some bowls,” Nelson said,

stood right behind me. I’d half expected him to run off the moment someone else

He perched on the