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!

belongs to my pack, Ortiz–mine. And that means… I’ve been the one pulling the strings all around this little adventure you’ve just been through. Did you enjoy it?

I

behind all of it, it wasn’t over yet. After all, I was still pretty sure I wasn’t back to my own reality yet.

are you so angry about? Aww, are

out of

out another shriek of laughter. “Why don’t you beg me? If you drop to

deep breath, calmed myself, and quickly analyzed

I said with scorn. “Why don’t

are you talking about?!” His

be trapped there forever. So let me guess what happened. Something didn’t quite work

us to have kept our memories, and you surely didn’t expect that we would be able to get out of here. You

breath of relief–it seemed that at least Ciana and the rest of the group should have

to the truth. So I chuckled again, “So now what? Why don‘ t you show me what else you’ve

calmed him- self down and he

wasn’t as easily agitated as I’d hoped. I didn’t like that. Enemies who were level–headed were much more difficult to

more. “Let me remind you- I’m in charge here. Now, Prince Theo, it’s time for you to get

not a good actor and you’ll be disappointed,”

the bait this time and only sneered, “Well, we’ll find out, won’t we?”

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sentence,

to be able to do anything to stop

I began to slip into that dream state again, I heard him say, “It’s time for your nightmare to continue, Prince Theo.

away, and everything around me began to

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

only thing that had

me, ungloved, and I hardly recognized my own 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,

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

Zade, was supposed to be the most merciless and deadly of all

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going on that campaign. Not after I was finished with

on his face continued to increase as he realized what was happening

I was killing

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 up as the very essence of life was sucked away from

wanted to stop. I wanted to find a way to end the pull that was

then, there was my father, who was standing next