Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder

Chapter 433

Chapter 91: Open Your Heart To Me
I watched as Tallis talked to Nelson about something. I watched the way his jaw locked in place and his eyes focused on the piece of paper he was being shown.
Could it have been him? Could he have been the one I met so many years ago?
So many thoughts swirled in my mind at that moment. Tallis was Theo. But he could also potentially be the boy from the forest. That thought made my heart flutter.
Warren’s deep sigh drew me back out of my reverie.
He followed where my gaze had been. “You’re looking at Tallis.”
“l wasn’t,” I tried to deny it. “l was just deep in thought. Tallis and I are just mere acquaintances.”
Acquaintances who had kissed on multiple occasions. But Warren didn’t need to know that.
Tallis and Nelson walked off somewhere and then Warren turned to me. From the look on his face, I knew that he wanted to say something, something that I wouldn’t like to hear at this moment.
He stepped toward me and I instinctively took a step back. It was unintentional but based on his expression, I knew what I did just now was hurtful to Warren.
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: OPM TO Me ward. But being under his gaze like this really unnerved me.
He cleared his throat and bored his eyes into mine. “You know how I feel about you, Ciana, I made it clear months ago and my feelings have never wavered since that moment. You came into my life by pure chance. You were there in the palace for my brother but somehow I feel like you were sent there for me.”
He took a deep breath, stepped toward me, and grabbed my hands. “l have feelings for you, Ciana and they run deep.
I gulped
My heart hammered like crazy in my chest and my palms began to sweat. I didn’t want him to say the words. I didn’t want to hurt him. His heart was too pure and too good to break.
But I also couldn’t lie to him.
“You said you needed time. That you had to sort through your feelings and I have given you that time.” His hands squeezed mine. “Ciana Black, you are an extraordinary woman. Will you please do me the honor of being mine? I know we can be so good together. Just…say yes.”
Time stood still.
His eyes glistened against the light that hung above us. I could see the hope and fear in his eyes and it broke me. This was not what I had wanted.
I had thought that maybe if I waited long enough, his feel-

ings would fade, or he’d realize that what he was seeing in me was only friendship.
A while back, maybe there was also another part of me that thought one day I would be able to see more in him. But that day never came.
I could never see him as more than just Warren, a friend, to me.
Even as he held my hands right now there was no spark. There was no fluttering feeling in my belly.

“Say something,” he pleaded, “please.”
I looked down at our hands and then met his gaze once more. There was a small smile playing on his lips that had my heart breaking even more.
I was struggling to get the words out. ‘$1…can’t.”
I watched as the light slowly dimmed from his eyes and his smile slipped from his face.
He dropped my hands from his. “Why?”
I let out a shaky breath and wrung my hands together. “l can’t be with you, Warren, because I don’t view you in the way you want me to. I wish I could give you what you wanted but I can’t. I can’t force that feeling when it’s not there. And it’ll never be there.”
He flinched at my words. It was like I was throwing daggers into his chest and he was just standing there taking it.
“l knew it,” he scoffed at himself bitterly, “l wonder if I had never told you what I did just now, would anything be differ ent?”
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He let out a helpless chuckle and turned his gaze to the distance. “Well, at least that made me feel a little better, and not regret telling you the truth.”
“Sorry, Warren. All I can say is that I’m grateful to get to know you, and that you’re my friend.

late…’ Warren’s words left me in a bit of a daze. Since when had he become an advocate for me and Theo being together? “Um,” I cleared my throat, trying to find an accurate word to describe my relationship with Theo, but failed. “You’re in love with my brother, aren’t you?” My eyes nearly fell out of their sockets. “What? No.” “Then with Tallis? I see the way you stare at him when you think no one is watching. At least, he is a more interesting fel low

Before I could say anything, Tallis decided to make an appearance.

Tallis with mixed emotions and Tallis looked confused. I was not about to get in the middle of their little brothers’ tiff again— I’d learned that lesson before. ‘Hey hey! Good that you’re all here.” Nelson came toward us with wide eyes and a topper hat in hand. “It’s showtime people. Let’s take to the stage and wow Maggie.’ Phew! Whatever was going on here could wait. Or never be addressed again. “Yes, sir! Break a leg!” I responded to Nelson and waved at the royal brothers before scurrying away to stand in my area on the makeshift stage, waiting for the curtain call. “What’s that scowl about?” Tallis followed me. “What scowl?” He raised an eyebrow. 91 • Open To He was in what looked to be some kind of raggy costume. However, even with the torn clothes and disguise, it didn’t make him any less attractive. The more I looked at him, the more I couldn’ t stop myself from appreciating his god-like face and perfectly fit body. “Don’t comment,” he said in a deadpanned tone. “l wasn’t in charge of the wardrobe.’

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