Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder

Chapter 385

Chapter 43 The Dungeon

*Theo*

“Where shall we take him, my lady?” one of the guards asked Sophia as I stood in front of them, wearing the torn remains of my guard pants.

Sophia puzzled over me, stroking her chin with one finger as she thought about what to do with me. I knew that Ciana was panicking back behind me in the garden area still, near where all of the shredded rose bushes lay, but there were guards between us.

“Take him down to the basement,” Sophia said. “I saw some kind of cages down there. Put him in one of those.”

I snickered, knowing she couldn’t legally hold me. After all, ‘she wasn’t yet married to the king, so she wasn’t the Luna Queen. She had absolutely no authority whatsoever to take me prisoner or hold me in a dungeon.

But I went along with her, all of it part of the plan.

“You can’t do that!” Ciana shouted.

I turned and looked at her, willing her to be quiet. She had to know by now that I was up to something, didn’t she? The panicked look on her face said otherwise.

Was she really worried about me? That silly woman…

It was nice to think that she might care a little bit about what happened to me, but in reality, she was probably just concerned that we’d never get back to our own reality if I was locked up somewhere and not able to help with our plan.

In the basement, I immediately noticed that it was not a dungeon. There were bars here and there that formed different areas, but I saw telltale signs that this room held lots of secrets. I had to wonder who had lived here before Sophia and what kinds of activities they might have used the area for.

It wasn’t to hold people as prisoners, not for long anyway. Of that, I was fairly certain.

“This’ll teach you!” one of the guards said as he shoved me behind a flimsy barrier of bars.

“Yeah, he’ll die down here! Starve to death!” another one laughed.

They all traipsed up the stairs, and I shook my head. Getting out of there would take me less than five minutes.

But that wasn’t what I had in mind.

to be. There was more to it than that, and I intended to discover exactly

of hours, I took my time feeling along the walls and floor, looking at the different way that the rocks fit together, searching for some sort of weakness, a breach in the strong hold. A few areas interested me more than others. I thought I saw a switch mechanism in the floor,

out of nowhere. “You had to

made me feel good. What the

her. “It’s not as bad as you think.

she thought I did. I saw the way that she was always looking at every

she asked me. “You’re trapped

shook my head at her. “I don’t think I

familiar voice of my brother and saw him traipsing over to the other side of the bars to stand beside her. “What in the world happened?” Warren asked, still thinking he was the king.

it made me want to lash out irrationally at him. How dare he choose to be with another woman but think that he still had possession of

it would actually work in our favor if Warren was

darkness settle over my countenance. “Who do you think

coming a bit closer. He and Ciana were right on the other side

among the others. I wanted to get out of there so I could teach him a lesson. No longer caring that it would be better to do this behind his back, I stepped on it, hoping that the

widen first as her hands went shooting up in the air. Warren’s did, too, but I wasn’t

happened that both of them had been standing over the trapdoor

the part of the floor that fell away, so I hoped I

and shoved my hand through, straining to reach her. Just

That had not been what I

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*Ciana*

my eyes refused to open at

dim, flickering light around me painful. I managed to sit up, pressing the heel of my hand to my forehead, and slowly, I

a few enchanted forests in my time since I loved to chase animals and explore, but I’d never been to any place like this before, and I wouldn’t

stalactites here and there. The rich sienna color glowed in the amber lights that flickered off and on all around us, and when I tried to get a sense of just how many fireflies were flickering as they fluttered by, I knew it would be impossible

wasn’t completely immersed in it, thank goodness, or I likely would’ve drowned. Something told me I had been there a while. Looking straight up, I couldn’t see the hole I’d fallen through. We must’ve

wasn’t alone. Warren was lying on the ground next

little until he began to blink. Then, he opened his eyes, and I could see he was

we?” he asked.

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