Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder

It was almost like a game of cat and mouse where the cat enjoyed standing back and watching the mous

e run but was content in letting it get away–for now. He wanted to see me live to suffer.

He wanted to see me suffer without Rosalie.

I grimaced. Just thinking of her made my stomach twist into a ball so tight, I thought I might be sick.

“You need to sit down, Alpha,” Richard said, thinking that I was making that face because I was in physic

al pain from my wounds, not because my heart was being wrenched from inside of me.

I‘d never been a dreamer, but in the days I‘d spent leading up to my fight with Soren, I had envisioned a li

fe with Rosalie and our baby.

I had dreamed of a time when the war was over, and the

three of us could return to my home. She would be my Luna, and my

heir, perhaps a son, would fill our lives with love and light.

We would be happy together.

And I could give Rosalie the life she deserved.

Now, that future had slipped from my grasp– because I didn‘t tell her everything.

But how could I? Rosalie didn‘t need to know all of the details of the war. She certainly didn’t

need to know that I was there to assassinate Soren. She would‘ve thought I was there to see her only to

kill him from the very beginning.

“Alpha, shall we plan the next assassination attempt?” another one of the men asked, coming over and l

eaning against the railing next to Richard.

“No.” My head snapped back to the war effort. I needed to concentrate. “They.. he would have

already found out about the tunnels by now.”

. Yes, Soren was not stupid. Right now, all the secret tunnels would no longer be secret.

The warrior immediately was on alert. “Okay, Alpha, then shall I get ready to return to the capital then?”

I thought for a moment and shook my head.

“No, right now, I am the bait. Let‘s play hide and seek with our enemy. Plan to leave in two days.”

“Alpha! You‘re already wounded. It‘s too dangerous for you to show yourself again!” Richard finally got m

y plan and was concerned.

“Richard, send another message to Talon for reinforcement. Do whatever you need to do

so that reinforcements can find us in two days. No more, no less. After that, we‘ll head straight to the coa

st‘s frontline.”

I

willed my mind to slip back into military mode, but it simply wouldn‘t happen. Not completely. I kept thinki

ng of Rosalie. How could I leave her and my baby behind? I felt that tug in my gut and knew my

child wanted me nearby, yet I was floating further away.

“What should we do in the meantime, sir?” Richard asked, jarring me back to the men.

“Continue to be on high alert,” I told them. “We need to keep our eyes open for enemy vessels.”

“Alpha, we also received inquiries from the king…”

“Tell him I am severely wounded and can‘t talk right now.”

Everyone looked at each other, and then said in unison, “Yes, Alpha,” and then went back to their duties.

I returned to staring at the island in the distance, which was so far out of reach. My wounds began to hea

l but were still aching

Not as much as my heart was aching, though.

Eventually, I fell into a restless sleep, but my dreams were unpleasant and filled with images of Rosalie.

When I‘d found her again, the nightmares of her falling to her death had stopped. Those few weeks of sle

ep when I‘d been visiting Rosalie at night had been the best I‘d gotten in years.

Now, images of her dying were replaced with haunting

visuals of her face as it had been etched into my mind the night that Soren and I had fought.

I knew it was a dream again as soon as I saw that we were in the forest. “Ethan,” Rosalie said in a haunti

ng, siren sweet voice. “Make love to me.”

I leaned in and kissed her, tasting strawberries

on her warm mouth as I carefully undressed her. Every sensual

touch felt real, every moan and passionate sigh that came from her luscious red lips echoed through

my ears as if it were really happening

But just as I was about to bring her to her peak, Rosalie leaped away from me.

She was dressed in her robe now, her eyes wide, her face streaked with tears. “How could you do this to

me, Ethan!” she shrieked. “You a*shole! You liar!”

“No, Rosalie!” I tried to tell her.

“Please, let me explain!” But I couldn‘t speak because I suddenly shifted and I was in my wolf form. With a

human form, but even though I focused with my full concentration, I couldn‘t shift back.

That had never happened before.

In the meantime, Rosalie continued to shout profanities at me, words I‘d never heard come out of

her sweet mouth before. “You b*stard! I hate you! I hope you die! You worthless a*shole!”

“No!” I tried to tell her. “You‘ve got it all wrong! I love you!”

She still didn‘t understand, and as she covered her face with both of her hands and broke into sobs that ra

I saw him.

Over her left shoulder, he was there, standing in the background, casually leaning against the trunk of a tr

Soren, grinning at me like the devil himself.

He had orchestrated all of this, caused all of this pain to come into

my life, and now, he was just watching and maniacally laughing as my world fell apart.

Sucking in enough air to fill my lungs, I sat straight up in bed, feeling like I‘d been underwater

for so long that I had nearly drowned

I gasped for breath for several seconds and looked around, wiping sweat from my brow as I realized that

But it made my heart stop thundering against my rib cage.

But that didn‘t mean the nightmare was over.

I swung my legs over the side of the bed, the pain in my side aggravating me slightly from the movement.

Needing some fresh air, I made my way back out to the deck. In the darkness, my men had positioned us

side of the island.

“Where are we?” I asked one of my men at the helm. “What‘s going on?”

“We had to move, Alpha,” he said. “Soren‘s ships spotted us again, so we changed positions and drew the

I nodded. It was exactly what I wanted. The longer I could occupy Soren‘s vessels and keep them busy

trying to trap me, the easier it would be for Talon‘s men to sneak in and attack the supply ships.

Soren had to think I was simply reluctant to leave Rosalie and my baby, which was true, but while I was o

as well use this to my advantage.

“If they find us again, keep moving,” I told him.

“Yes, Alpha,” he said, and I headed over to check on other military information.

My work as Alpha never stopped, no matter how broken my heart was.