Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder

Chapter 48 Theo’s Past I

My thoughts were fuzzy as I tried to keep track of what was happening all around me. A whoosh of wind flew around me, and I felt like I was both floating and falling at the same time.

With a thump, I hit the ground, my legs slamming into what felt like a stone floor. I lay there for a second, opening my eyes slightly. I had to figure out what to do next.

Well, if the mission had failed, and the crystal hadn’t been cleansed from the last user, then we would have to wait until the next real blood moon to plant the berry, and I would just have to find a way to make sure that I didn’t hurt anyone else until then.

If that meant I would have to seclude myself and stay away from everyone until that could happen, then that was exactly what I would do.

It wasn’t like I’d never done that or been alone before. I was quite used to either anyway.

Pushing up off of the floor, I turned around and sat down, the world still spinning slightly. At least my organs seemed to have settled back down. My heart was no longer hammering, my lungs could suck in a full breath of air, and my head was no longer pounding.

Something was still different, though. Something was off. The room I was in looked like my own bedroom, but I could tell there were minor differences that made it seem like per- haps I hadn’t quite reached reality after all.

Glancing around, I saw that I was alone. The others were not there–Ciana, Jake, Brook, Warren, and Sophia. That made no sense.

I got up and started for the door, but it was then that I heard maniacal laughter behind me and turned around to see Luther standing across the room. He hadn’t been there be- fore; I was sure of it.

“You’ve got a lot of nerve to show your face,” I sneered.

Luther walked toward me, his arms folded across his chest as he continued to chuckle. “Seriously?” he asked. “You still haven’t figured all of this out? You are the one who should be concerned.”

“Obviously, you and I see things differently.”

I didn’t have time to chat with him, so the sooner I’d taken care of him, the better. I was about to shift when I realized that I couldn’t.

“Hahaha!” Luther laughed. “Prince Theo, why didn’t you show me your wolf? Is it because… you can’t?”

“What did you do?” I narrowed my eyes as I waited for him. to answer me.

“You know that every pack has an artifact from the Moon Goddess, right?” he asked, a snarky smile on his face.

Of course, I knew that. Everyone knew that.

“Well, before you had your brute of a Beta go out and track down the Moonlit Crystal, maybe you should’ve done a little bit of research about where it came from.” He still had that look on his face.

Shit!

little adventure you’ve just been through. Did you enjoy

UP!” I roared.

me and I felt my furious blood rush to my face. I realized that if he had been behind all of it, it wasn’t over yet. After all, I was still pretty sure I wasn’t back

you so angry about? Aww,

out of this!”

another shriek of laughter. “Why don’t you beg me? If you drop to your knees, maybe I’ll consider it.”

calmed myself, and quickly

scorn. “Why don’t you

are you talking about?!” His face dropped.

the crystal, I bet you’d prefer us to be trapped there forever. So let me guess what happened. Something didn’t quite work out as you ex-

knew I was right. So I continued, “You didn’t expect us to have kept our memories, and you surely didn’t expect that we would be able to get out of

let out a breath of relief–it seemed that at least Ciana and the rest of the group should have been returned to reality

truth. So I chuckled

but he soon calmed him- self down and

like that. Enemies who were level–headed were much more difficult to

up all my patience,” he said as he narrowed his eyes even more. “Let me remind you-

good actor and you’ll be disappointed,” I said, continuing to provoke him,

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his sentence, I felt

He was right–I wasn’t going to be able to do anything

I heard him say, “It’s time for your nightmare to continue, Prince Theo. Get ready for your worst memories to replay in a

everything around me began to change.

field out- side of the castle. The scent of the green grass hit my lungs as a

that wasn’t the only thing that had

arms, they were so short. Glancing down at my body, I realized I was a small child again, and as the rest of the scene came into fo- cus, I knew

to death for murdering his brother, but Father spared him and made him a soldier because of his battle skills. He was in his human form dressed in the uniform of our castle guard. I remembered that this was back when my fa- ther had been putting together a detail to go fight in an

was supposed to be the most merciless and deadly of all of my father’s troops.

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be going on that campaign. Not after I

increase as he realized what was happening to him–that

was

youth–all of the attributes that contributed to Zade’s prowess as a warrior were seeping into me. I watched his face continue to pale and shrivel

pull that was sucking the life out of him, but

who was