Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder

Chapter 415

Chapter 73: Faking Love

I watched his back as he was leaving, and pondered what he just said.

'I was just passing by.'

That was a lie.

Tallis was hiding something, I knew he was. There was a familiarity about him that I just couldn't shake. It was this air of calm and cold that he carried. I had felt it once before and only with one other person.

But could it be?

I had asked him numerous times and each time he refuted my claims. He was not the somber prince I knew.

So why did they both carry the same aura?

I shook my head thinking I had lost my damn mind. First the fake Ciana and now this. My problems and questions kept piling up with each passing day.

It didn't matter now though. I had more important matters to attend to.

My mind was turning fast. Fake Ciana had professed her undying love to Warren. This was what I had been hoping for. Phase one of the plan was complete and now it was time to move onto phase two.

Whoever Tallis was, he could wait.

I turned on my heel ready to walk back to where fake Ciana and Warren had been, but I slammed into a warm wall.

I stumbled a few steps back before a pair of strong arms came out and caught me.

"You okay there, Ciana?"

Warren helped me to steady myself.

"Yeah," I looked up at him. "Where is the other Ciana? What happened? I had to leave because..."

My voice trailed off as the words got stuck in my throat. I didn' t want to worry Warren. He had a tendency to somehow shift blame of every bad thing that happens onto himself, especially when it regarded me.

I often thought that he had too much honor at times. I wished he would be a little less chivalrous.

"Because?" He pressed.

"It's nothing. Now tell me what's going on with her?"

Warren stepped closer, crossing into that imaginary bubble l had around me.

"What happened, Ciana?" His eyes held mine.

"I told you nothing."

"It doesn't sound like nothing. Your heart's racing, you have that little nervous nose twitch you do when you're hiding something. So spill it."

I stood still for a moment in complete shock. "How do you know about the twitch?"

He rolled his eyes. "I notice everything about you, Black. Now spill it."

I let out a sigh and bit down on my lip. "Hawke came by."

catching him up on the important players in the

voice was

harass me, a little bit," I blurted out. "But he was drunk and he had two broken arms

need to

and Theo in my mind. In a situation like this, if it was Theo,

my hand out and grabbed his arm. "No need

"Tallis?"

are talking about

face. My heart immediately dropped and

agreed to elope with me."

to my body and I bounced on the balls of my feet. "This is great news! You are the best! But... I could

I am happy for the progress. But it's just...I feel like I'm going

slipped from my face. "I know..."

to her. I told her I loved her too and told her I wanted to

hand on his chest right above his heart. I could feel the strong thumping on my palm. It was racing and I didn't know whether it was

no business feeling guilty for this. If anything, all

A great man in fact. I told you this many times before and now I will tell you again. What you are doing for me is a service that I will never be able to repay you for. However, please don't feel

locked his gaze on me, waiting for

of all, this girl is not fully innocent. She has taken my identity and is trying to

that for you."

The most important thing is that she didn't want this life. I could tell. No one would want to be someone else for the rest of their lives. So you're helping her. You're helping

could tell Warren's

might feel bad once she finds out you don't really love her, but by then, at least she would have the freedom to carry on her own life, and that's way more important

let out one long breath that fanned my face. His scent of pine and morning grass

a small smile.

"Do what?"

to say and when to say it." He tucked away a stray piece of hair that had come out from under my hood.

to make light of the situation.

stepped away from him. "Shall we?"

nodded and we walked away from the garden.

ceremony would be in two days. That was when we would have the elopement announcement.

through, both Luther and Ciana would need to present. If Ciana suddenly went missing due to her recent nuptials, then no alliance

of the plan. The

needed to steal the sacred artifact. Well, was it really stealing if it belonged to my parents? Depends

We had been going over everything for the past two hours. We made

her

to keep up appearances, right?"

seat at the table. "We can

out a little light hearted but

go, you know that

I shouldn't have joked about it," I

he

madly in love, though. Unfortunately, for the sake of our plan,

He sighed, "Okay."

and went our separate

a lot of the pressure off my back.

to take a

the royal palace, and now returning home my world had flipped yet again. But like my father had always taught me, I would brave the storm. Because that

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