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."

now, he probably has heard about Hawke a few times, both from me catching him

His voice was tight and tense.

have tried to harass me, a little bit," I blurted out. "But he was drunk and he had two broken arms so he wasn't really that

need to have

situation like this, if it was Theo, he probably would just beat Hawke up....like Tallis

"No need to. And besides, Tallis took care

"Tallis?"

talking about Hawke. We are talking about you and fake me. What did

look overtook Warren's face. My heart immediately dropped and I felt all

to elope with

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

me wrong, I am happy for the progress. But it's just...I feel like I'm

my face. "I know..."

her. I told her I loved her too and told her I wanted to spend the rest

strong thumping on my palm. It was racing and I didn't know whether it was from guilt or nerves. But whatever

this. If anything, all of

I will tell you again. What you are doing for me is a service that I will never be able to repay

his gaze on me, waiting for

innocent. She has taken my identity and is trying to take over my home. This is wrong, and I will

I want that for

No one would want to be someone else for the rest of their lives. So you're helping her. You're helping her to get out of here and get away from people that she is afraid of, like

Warren's

once she finds out you don't really love her, but by then,

his forehead against mine and let out one long breath that fanned my face. His scent of pine and morning

a small smile.

"Do what?"

it." He tucked away a stray piece of

make light of the

from him. "Shall

we walked

two days. That was when we would have the

need to present. If Ciana suddenly went missing due to

of the plan. The other stage was

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

We had been going over everything for the past two hours. We made sure there were no cracks in our plans.

her tonight?"

need to keep up appearances, right?"

seat at the table. "We can convene again tomorrow.

out a little light hearted but

I don't have to go, you know that right? I can tell her something came

shouldn't have joked about it," I

he

to believe you two are madly in love, though. Unfortunately, for the sake of our plan,

He sighed, "Okay."

and went our

pressure off my back. He made this

decided to take a

sent to 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 was exactly what us Blacks did.

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