Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder

Chapter 74: I'll Take That as a Yes.

Alright, Tallis and Theo might be two different people, but they both could be jerks!

Since the conversation with Tallis didn't go anywhere, I decided to call it a night.

But what I didn't expect was a group of thick, muscular thugs that appeared from nowhere, blocking my way back to my parents' house. They snickered and closed in around me.

"What do you want?" I asked harshly.

"They don't want anything. However, we have an unfinished score to settle," Hawke's angry, frustrated voice barked out from behind the thugs.

"I didn't do anything to you," I insisted, crossing my arms and trying to act more like a guy.

"Well, the last time we spoke, I ended up knocked out and face down in the dirt. You're telling me that you had nothing to do with that?" Hawke shouted viciously.

Apparently, he remembered more than I hoped. He wasn't drunk tonight, either.

"Grab this little twit!" Hawke ordered.

His thugs jumped at me. I jumped back, but they'd already closed in around me and one caught me from behind. All four of them grabbed my arms and legs and pinned me down to the ground.

I struggled against them, hissing and trying to bite whatever got close to my mouth. Hawke's thugs were too well trained and they were too strong!

"Hold that little swine down. I'm going to teach him a lesson for messing with me," Hawke chuckled, shoving the toe of his boot into the ground.

Now that I was eye level with his boots, I could see they were steel toed. If he kicked me with those, he'd break every bone in my body. I had to stall him.

"That's funny, seeing as the last time we met, you seemed to be interested in me, regardless of me being a boy," I hissed, still struggling against his cronies holding me down.

One of them nearly let me go as his head whipped around to Hawke.

Hawke sneered and shook his head. "Don't listen to this piece of crap. He's just trying to mess with you. Hold him steady."

Nothing I said now would turn their heads. Whether they were all loyal to Hawke or to Hawke's cunning dad, it wouldn't save me a good beating.

Hawke pulled his foot back, knee bent, ready to deliver a horrible kick to my side. I closed my eyes and held my breath, waiting for the heavy blow.

It never came.

"What the..."

I opened my eyes just as a pack of wild animals burst from the forest and attacked Hawke.

"Get them off, get them off!" Hawke screeched, flapping his partially broken arms around like he was fending off a swarm of bees.

cronies ran at him, trying to pull the beasts away,

and rabbits, jumped on them and bit them. All of them were screaming and floundering around like

sore arms. Hawke looked so pathetic, trying to fight off a gaggle of wild animals with his near useless arms. His guys

and his group further

had to have been summoned by someone. I glanced around the forest and saw

Tallis was standing in the trees. He could also organize an

way! I didn't believe in such

minimum, there must be some sort of connection between Theo and Tallis.

soon as I started approaching the woods, he vanished between

to evade me, which made me think he didn't want me to see him and made

out to

and pulled

you following me? I told you, I' m not who you think I am. How many times do I have

figure out some other way to approach him.

wait a minute, please?" I asked, my voice

face me but at least, he wasn't

closer to him. "It is different this time because I need your

to me, one eyebrow arched.

come after me three times now and I don't think

Tallis asked

I stay with you? I can't go back

almost thought he was more intolerable than the Dark Prince. Yet, here I was, doing everything I could

wrong with me?!

myself, but at this moment, I could tell myself that I had a valid reason to stay with the man in front of me. It was for

don't have a safe place to stay. So, can I stay with you?" | asked again, pleading with him with

him but he hadn't

carnival tent, it was quiet. It seemed like most of the performers had gone to

just

He couldn't even spare his friendly, charismatic brother a friendly greeting. Who else

Nelson asked. "Ah, young sir, hello again!"

with me," Tallis grumbled in a

shot him a look. "Would it kill you to try to

surprised at us, and then laughed heartily and wiped a tear from his eye. "Yes, m'boy, it would probably

scoffed and shook his head. I

friends?" Nelson asked, motioning for us to

into Nelson's curtain office. He had a hot plate

ladle into the steaming broth and lifting it

admitted,

bowls," Nelson said, bustling around the small

behind me. I'd half expected him to run off the

He perched on the edge of