Sould As The Alpha King's Breeder

Chapter 97 Never Had it Easy

“Warren, Theo is your brother. You’ re mad at him right now, but you won’t feel that way forever,’ I tried to reason with him.

‘ Maggie was my twin. I have more loyalty to her than to Theo!” Warren argued, shaking his head. “Are you refusing to help because you still care about him? How could you, after what he did?”

‘ Maggie’ s loss is devastating, but we don’ t know the whole story. Theo ran off and… it could have been an accident…”

I hadn’t wanted to bring up my thoughts before, because Warren was so sad. Now, I had to present them. I wanted him to consider the possibility that Theo wasn’t evil. Not because I cared about Theo but because I didn’t want Warren to destroy himself with revenge.

“An accident? I know my dear brother too well. The Dark Prince doesn’t do anything by accident! He kills. That’s all he’s good for,” Warren scoffed.

“Warren I reached for his arm.

He jerked away, glaring at me. “You’re really not going to help?”

I don’t want to lose you. If you go after Theo and take revenge without even giving him a chance to explain, I will.” I bowed my head, but my words were firm.

Less than a week ago, Warren had been so worried that a lie would end our friendship. Maybe, he still cared enough about our friendship to consider losing me a negative consequence. I’d keep reasoning with him until I could get through.

“No, if I go after Theo, I’ll destroy him,” Warren said. “Admit it, Ciana, admit that you care more about him than what he did to Maggie.”

Warren threw his arms out to the side, his eyes wild and ravenous. I could see now that I wouldn’t be able to talk him down. He wasn’ t in denial anymore, he had moved on to anger. It wasn’t just anger, it was pure fury.

“This isn’t about what I do or don’t care about your brother. I only asked you to give him a chance, and give yourself a chance to learn the truth!”

“Truth? What other truth do I need when I saw it with my own eyes?! Ciana, you’re defending him because you’re in love with him, aren’t you?!” Warren asked. He grabbed my arms and clamped his hands around me like a vice.

“Ow! Warren..”

I tried to struggle away from him but he wouldn’t let me go. My arms pinched and pain shot down my sides.

“You’re hurting me,” I ground out through gritted teeth. “Say you’ll help me!” he demanded, shaking me slightly.

“l… I can’t,” I gasped.

Warren growled and leaned in closer. My heart pounded in my chest and I wondered what he was going to do to me.

What would he do to force me to help him?

Before I could come to any conclusions, Warren’s lips were on mine. He pressed hard and hungrily against my mouth.

I squirmed and tried to push him off me but Warren held me so tightly I couldn’t get away. Finally, when he pulled back, ne breathed raggedly against my face. His eyes were wild and Jnseeing.

Did he even know what he was doing?

“If you aren’t going to help me now, you can stay here unlil you change your mind!” he snarled.

“What? You can’t force me like this!”

Warren kept holding one of my arms and he half-dragged ne through his summer home to a room in one of the farthest vings. He kicked the door open and threw me inside.

the of the bed. Whipping around, I headed back for the door Warren pulled it closed and I

me

Then you can come out!”

You have to calm down first. You Ion’t know

‘heo—”

laugh on the other

Ciana! You said we’

“Of course you are!”

won’t you help

truth! Open

want to, but

getting farther and farther away. Sighing, I stopped pounding. It was no use injuring myself just to get his attention. I rubbed my arms where he had squeezed

crazy. I was worried about what he would do, and not

on the edge and looked around the room. It wasn’t a luxurious room and the mattress was a little stiff.

wasn’t a prison cell or dungeon, though. The bed was large, there was a bookshelf, towels in the bathroom, and cozy

that made me feel any less like a

for a few moments to let my head cool down

fresh air would

I pushed the window open, a

Near greeted me.

one up, and said to it,

it didn’t have any thorns. Not only this one, but all the rest

world, I was assigned to pick roses, and my hands were hurt…

my thoughts back and re-studied the one in my hand. I’d never heard of roses without thorns before. It

Ciana, may I come

Warren. The doorknob turned, and in came an older woman

had a motherly smile, warm cheeks, and gnarled

I stepped back. I wasn’t about to knock an old woman out of the way, even if

“I was Warren

I said,

Is there anything I can get

and locking the

was a nice, caring old lady, but she still had orders from Warren not to

toward the bed and slumped down on the edge of it. “I’m

for you?” Aurora asked, coming over to me. She sat on the bed next to me and covered my

I said, shrugging. I didn’t want to say mean things about Warren, especially to the woman that had

sister’s death. I didn’ t want

leave? Warren would take that hard,” Aurora said, her smile fading

After

He likes you a lot. I can tell. This afternoon, he asked the staff to fix up this place. He even told us to strip

that was kind of him,” I admitted, glancing toward

s such a shame. Those poor kids. They… they never had it easy,” she

talk to. She was taking care of Warren’s house and he was mostly living at the palace. She probably got

by that? They are

Maggie and Warren’ s mother, was the king’ s lover. He kept her and promised to make her his Luna. She loved him deeply. But before they wed, King Sebastian brought