Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder

Chapter 107: I Was Their Only Hope

*Ciana*

My breath came out in low and shallow pants as I heard the protests from Nita and the roars from the king.

However, I couldn't see anything from here until I saw Theo and Nita being escorted out of the room. When Theo walked past the closet, I thought I saw him shift his eyeballs very subtly.

Yet I understood what he wanted from me.

Stay safe.

I had hoped for this plan to go smoothly but I should have known someone like Sebastian wouldn't be easy to trick.

It wasn't like I didn't consider bursting out of this closet and playing the hero, but that would've been flat-out stupid.

Theo had placed me here for a reason and I agreed with him on that. At this point, I was their only hope, and getting myself locked up with them really wouldn't do us any good:

When I was sure everyone had left the king's suite, I counted to 100 before slowly opening the closet door and peeking down the hallway.

Empty.

Perfect.

Keeping my steps as light as could be and sticking to the corners, I managed to get out without drawing any more unwanted attention.

Where would Jake be? I needed him. Now.

He would know what to do in times like this.

My legs took me back to Theo's wing. Jake had to be waiting there. However, as I got close, I stopped when I heard someone jogging over from a distance. My first instinct was to hide, but then I recognized the footsteps.

"Brook?"

"Ciana! Thank the Goddess you're here!"

A sense of foreboding rushed through me. "What happened?"

"They took him." She cried. The tears streamed down her face and her cries got harder with each passing second. "They put him in chains and took him away."

"Who, Brook? Who did they take?" I pulled out of her hold and grabbed her shoulders. "Jake?!"

"Yes!" she sniffed. "One moment he was at the library with me and the next these guards came barging into the door and put chains on him. They beat him into submission because he was trying to push me out of the way."

My heart sank.

"I came here to seek help for Prince Theo because Jake is his Beta." Brook probably noticed my face was as pale as ash. "Ciana, don't look at me like that. You're scaring me now..."

"They took everyone then." I stared at her solemnly. "Brook, we're in big trouble now,"

"Everyone?" She wiped away the last few stray tears.

I nodded. "Prince Theo and Lady Nita included."

"No..." Brook covered her mouth with her hands.

We looked at each other worriedly, and we both saw panic in each other's eyes.

could help was gone and I had no idea

in the eye. "Ciana, look at me. Take

she said sounded familiar...

said, "That's what you taught me on our first day here, remember?" Then she took a deep inhale and let

followed her and did the same.

and Warren unconscious, Sabastian didn't have many other options. The only one that carried the royal bloodline was young Prince Alexander, but he was too young to be sent to battlefields

least would spare his life until he found someone or something to

more cleansing breaths and felt

Brook, I squeezed her hands. "Brook,

She blinked a few times rapidly. "It seems

didn't know you could read minds," I chuckled, trying to lighten the mood a little. "Yes. I think I have an idea of where they might

the right direction where others might be, even if

"Exactly."

and I started walking towards my side chamber which was connected to Theo's suite. "Theo is the crowned prince and

"That's true. News would spread

Theo someplace where

thought. "Somewhere that is close enough for him to check on the situation easily and

by the woman he desires and the heir to the throne. He's going to be even more

her head and I snuck out

I'd been circling around the

even harder

there was no sign of a dungeon or basement. Maybe I should try again tomorrow, or maybe I should go back and discuss with Brook to

a hand cover my mouth.

to the ground and

"Shhh."

the hand

was quite a small hand, and its owner had a small frame too. I stilled.

Alexander.

Alexander," I whispered, "What are you doing

his lips for me to be quiet and he

the garden and down to the brightly lit hallway. He wasn't

astonished to find that somehow he avoided all the guards and patrols perfectly, and entered a room I had passed many times but didn't

A small library.

was no door for this room. Anyone could see everything in it from the hallway, so how could it

books. When he pulled it forward, a staircase revealed behind it, leading

say anything, I allowed him to pull me down the darkened staircase that connected to a concrete walled passageway. The only thing illuminating it were the dim. orange light bulbs

complete stop at the end of the passageway.

after him. "What is

put his wrists together like he was in shackles.

"A dungeon?"

He nodded.

"Theo is here?"

He nodded again.

don't want him to die either, do you? You care about him."

time and then turned on his heel to

let out a shaky breath and continued my way

As I approached the end of the narrow pathway, I heard the cracking of whips every few

Theo!

moved along the shadows. Soon, I got to the end, and the space

with large and small rocks scattering the ground, which would provide great

and saw two dingy cells in the far corner of the dent. Outside of the