Sould As The Alpha King's Breeder

Chapter 107: I Was Their Only Hope

*Ciana*

My breath came out in low and shallow pants as I heard the protests from Nita and the roars from the king.

However, I couldn’t see anything from here until I saw Theo and Nita being escorted out of the room. When Theo walked past the closet, I thought I saw him shift his eyeballs very subtly.

Yet I understood what he wanted from me.

Stay safe.

I had hoped for this plan to go smoothly but I should have known someone like Sebastian wouldn’t be easy to trick.

It wasn’t like I didn’t consider bursting out of this closet and playing the hero, but that would’ve been flat-out stupid.

Theo had placed me here for a reason and I agreed with him on that. At this point, I was their only hope, and getting myself locked up with them really wouldn’t do us any good:

When I was sure everyone had left the king’s suite, I counted to 100 before slowly opening the closet door and peeking down the hallway.

Empty.

Perfect.

Keeping my steps as light as could be and sticking to the corners, I managed to get out without drawing any more unwanted attention.

Where would Jake be? I needed him. Now.

He would know what to do in times like this.

My legs took me back to Theo’s wing. Jake had to be waiting there. However, as I got close, I stopped when I heard someone jogging over from a distance. My first instinct was to hide, but then I recognized the footsteps.

“Brook?”

“Ciana! Thank the Goddess you’re here!”

A sense of foreboding rushed through me. “What happened?”

“They took him.” She cried. The tears streamed down her face and her cries got harder with each passing second. “They put him in chains and took him away.”

“Who, Brook? Who did they take?” I pulled out of her hold and grabbed her shoulders. “Jake?!”

“Yes!” she sniffed. “One moment he was at the library with me and the next these guards came barging into the door and put chains on him. They beat him into submission because he was trying to push me out of the way.”

My heart sank.

“I came here to seek help for Prince Theo because Jake is his Beta.” Brook probably noticed my face was as pale as ash. “Ciana, don’t look at me like that. You’re scaring me now…”

“They took everyone then.” I stared at her solemnly. “Brook, we’re in big trouble now,”

“Everyone?” She wiped away the last few stray tears.

I nodded. “Prince Theo and Lady Nita included.”

“No…” Brook covered her mouth with her hands.

We looked at each other worriedly, and we both saw panic in each other’s eyes.

Everyone I knew that could help was gone and

me in the eye. “Ciana, look at me. Take a

she said sounded

forced a smile on her face, and said, “That’s what you taught me on our first day here, remember?” Then she took a deep inhale and let out a long

her and did the

Warren unconscious, Sabastian didn’t have many other options. The only one that carried the royal bloodline was young Prince

Theo, and at least would spare his

a few more cleansing breaths

at Brook, I squeezed her hands. “Brook,

learnt from the best.” She blinked a few times rapidly. “It seems that you have some

little. “Yes. I think I have an idea of where they might be, well, at least where Theo

can point us to the right direction

“Exactly.”

“Theo is the crowned prince and it would

nodded. “That’s true. News

“If I were the king, I would need to hide Theo

of thought. “Somewhere that is close enough for him to check on the situation easily and

of sight, okay? The king just got betrayed by the woman he desires and the heir to

her head and I snuck

the night, and I’d been circling around the

and it was even harder to navigate without being discovered compared to our

there was no sign of a dungeon or basement. Maybe I should try again tomorrow, or maybe I should go back and discuss with Brook

I felt a hand cover

heart plummeted to the ground and I almost screamed

“Shhh.”

fighting and the hand

realized it was quite a small hand, and

Alexander.

“What are you doing

against his lips for me to be quiet and he grabbed my

through the garden and down to the brightly lit hallway. He wasn’t going to get me exposed, was

that somehow he avoided all the guards and patrols perfectly, and

A small library.

for this room. Anyone could see everything in it from the hallway, so how could it hold any

books. When he pulled it forward, a staircase revealed behind it, leading

anything, I allowed him to pull me down the darkened staircase that connected to a concrete walled passageway. The only thing illuminating it were

passageway. Then he

I called after him.

together like

“A dungeon?”

He nodded.

“Theo is here?”

He nodded again.

die either, do

and then turned

a shaky breath and continued

the dimmer the lighting was, which I appreciated. As I approached the end

Theo!

heart hammered in my chest as I moved along the shadows. Soon, I got

like a naturally formed dent, with large and small rocks

large rock and saw two dingy cells in the far corner of the dent. Outside of the cells were two