Sould As The Alpha King's Breeder

Chapter 102: Boyfriend

*Ciana*

I couldn’t believe I dozed off!

Theo said they would be leaving in two hours-were they already gone?

I ran to check on Warren. He wasn’t in his room. For a mo- ment, my heart sank to the bottom and I thought they chose to leave without me.

Thank Goddess, when I got to the foyer, Jake and a cou- ple of guys were getting Warren loaded into a van. He was strapped on a gurney, still unconscious.

Aurora was there, saying goodbye to Warren. Her eyes were glassy with tears.

I walked over and was about to ask Aurora whether she would like to come with us to the palace, when I realized that Theo actually hadn’t extended the invitation for me to go with him.

I watched Theo and Jake getting prepared to set off, and couldn’t help but decide to find out what was their plan.

“Do you have a plan on what to do now?” I asked, walking up beside Theo.

His face was drawn and distant again. The past 12 hours seemed extremely long, and he’d been so obviously upset and emotional at what happened to Warren and what he was ca-

pable of.

ty.

For a few moments, he’d even let me see that vulnerabili-

Now, he was the same old aloof Theo again.

“Yes, to a degree. We’ve made some arrangements in the palace,” Theo said.

“Okay,” I said softly, looking at the ground.

Theo’s ‘we’ only included himself and Jake, obviously. It didn’t sound like I was being included to return to the palace.

I couldn’t assume that I’d be welcome to accompany them without an invitation, as the royal palace wasn’t my backyard. Now that I’d technically “dropped out” of the running for Theo’s potential bride, there was no reason someone like me would have to go to the castle.

The palace wasn’t exactly open for anyone to come and go as they please.

But I wanted to. My heart ached with the desire to stay with Theo and to see Warren recover.

Theo wasn’t inviting me, so I wasn’t sure if he’d be recep- tive to me asking to tag along, because I might end up being more of a burden to him. He had a lot going on in his head with what he’d been through recently.

Then there was the promise I’d made to Lady Nita. I’d told her I would stay away from Theo and the palace if she helped him. She’d kept up her end of the deal. I couldn’t go back on mine.

Besides, and most importantly, I’d kissed Theo last night and he’d… he hadn’t mentioned anything about it.

At this point, I could no longer lie to myself.

Yes, I fell for the Dark Prince.

I wanted to be with him and be there for him. I wanted him to know that he wasn’t alone.

But what did he think about me?

Yes, he was protective of me, I knew that, just like he cared about Maggie, Warren, and even Jake. But was there anything more than that?

“Ciana, you in there?” Jake asked, waving his fingers in front of my face.

“Y-yes, what?” I asked, snapping out of my trance.

“I’ve been calling you. You must have been thinking pretty deeply.”

“Oh, yeah… I just hope Warren gets the help he needs,” I forced a smile on my face and played it off like it wasn’t a big deal that they were leaving without me.

But it was.

headed back to the

disappointed that Theo didn’t want me to go with them. I could feel my face fall and I couldn’t

them goodbye so that they could leave and get Warren the help he needed. As for myself, I was seriously considering

Brook is still there. She

too,” I admitted, sighing heavily. It felt like I hadn’t seen

she hasn’t been feeling all that well lately,” Jake said. He blushed suddenly, like he wasn’t

nudged his shoulder. “It is okay to care

she’d feel better getting a

see her. I’m

a lot of care, and who knows what the

invitation I was hoping for, and there was no way I’d

voice as if he was worried that his Alpha would hear him. I glanced

was to see Brook and to help with Warren. As long as I wasn’t going back for Theo, Lady Nita couldn’t say

nervous when we got into the van. What

scolded me and asked me to stay be- hind? I would tell him that my friends needed me, and it was none of his

I was ready to

other than freezing at the car door for a couple of seconds, he didn’t say anything or do anything else before sitting down next to me. My eyes didn’t leave his face the en- tire time, and I could have sworn I saw

with me tagging along after

sudden, I felt energetic

moving, I was sure that he wouldn’t be able to get rid of me at this point, so I turned

hadn’t changed at all since the night before. Still pale and unconscious. Periodically, I checked his pulse. Some- times,

said anything to me at all. He looked at War- ren

be with him, but after more than an hour, it was still dead quiet in the car. I felt the

alright?” I asked, even though in this case, we both had exactly the same amount of information,

“Yes.”

“I hope so too.”

you think King

out a way to make him do

“How?”

“Don’t know yet.”

say, conversation wasn’t Prince Theo’s

seen Brook in so long,” I changed the

Theo grunted in response.

a bit under the weather. He thinks seeing me

sure she’ll appreciate that,” Theo

you know, I can help with Warren, too. It won’t be easy looking after him

Theo just nodded.

know, don’t send me away. I’m going back to the palace to help two friends,”

an eyebrow at me but

right, I admitted it, sitting in awkward silence was probably way easier than trying to chat

about me, but at this rate, I was simply happy that

gates, I felt it had been ages since I last set

his room within twenty minutes, including

that he stood up and was walking toward

“I’m going to see the king. I have my men here, they’ll only listen to you, so most people in the palace shouldn’t bother you. Take care of yourself and

nodded, “That’s the least I could

need it! By the way, Brook should be

walk away as I said a prayer to the Moon

after that,

missed you so much!”

you too,” I smiled, then immediately noticed someone

coming. When she

saw Warren’s form laying in the bed, she bounced on the balls of her feet and let out a high-

allowed in here!” One of Theo’s men said, blocking her

women are?” She point- ed

has special authorization from Prince Theo. If you continue this behavior, I’ll have to remove

shouted my name, and the guard grabbed

What did she want?