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.

discover exactly what it was, even if

few areas interested me more than others. I thought I saw a switch mechanism in the floor, but I was afraid to push it because I didn’t know exactly what it did. It would probably be

of the bars out of nowhere. “You had to go and

actually made me feel good. What the

not to smile, I addressed her. “It’s not as bad as you think. Didn’t you

her better than she thought I did. I saw the way that she was always

she asked me.

“I don’t think

the other side of the bars to stand beside her. “What in the world happened?” Warren asked, still

toying with her, acting like there was a possibility he still had feelings for her, and it made me want to lash out irrationally at him. How

that it would actually work in our favor if Warren was still interested

settle over my countenance. “Who do you think you are? If you’ve made the decision to abandon her, why are

He and Ciana were right on

I’d found earlier, a loose stone cast among the others. I wanted to get out of there so I could teach him a lesson. No longer caring

Ciana’s eyes widen first as her hands went shooting up in the air. Warren’s did, too, but

fell away-it was the floor! And it just so happened that both of them had been standing

edge of the part of the floor that fell away, so I hoped I might be able

immediately, but Ciana’s hand darted out to catch the lip of the opening. I dropped to my knees and shoved my hand through, straining to reach her. Just as my fingers grazed the back of her knuckles, she lost her grasp and disappeared from

I fell back onto my ass. That had not

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*Ciana*

my eyes refused

headache that made even the dim, flickering light around me painful. I managed to sit

I’d been in a few enchanted forests in

cave. The walls were high and smooth, with a few stalagmites and stalactites here and there. The rich sienna color glowed in the amber lights that flickered off and on all around us, and

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 washed

then that I realized that I was thinking “we” because I wasn’t alone. Warren was lying on the ground next to me, and

“Wake up, please. Open your eyes.” I slapped his cheeks a little until he began to blink. Then, he opened his eyes, and I could see he was just as confused

he

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