Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder

Chapter 140: You’re Not Uncontrollable

*Theo*

Every time I tried to get close to Ciana, she pushed me away or avoided me completely. Since she yelled at me in the garden, it was harder to get close to her. I'd been keeping a close eye on her because I needed to know she was safe but she was making it difficult.

While standing nearby in the garden, I signed off on a new budget plan with Simon while Ciana was smelling flowers and talking to Brook. I knew better than to interrupt a girl's afternoon.

I glanced over at Ciana and saw her describing something with big arm movements. A smile tugged at my lips.

I thought back to the beginning of our relationship when we first met. She'd worked hard to avoid me then, but fate kept throwing us together, like with Perceval and the Dreamberry.

If we were really destined to be together, fate would do its job again and bring us back together.

I was too impatient for fate!

Sighing, I handed the signed documents back to Simon and sent him on his way. I took a few steps toward Ciana and Brook but was interrupted again.

"Alpha, I have a report on the scroll translation," Jake said, coming up to me from another direction. "I think you'll want to see what we've come up with."

I looked back at Ciana and Brook. They were giggling together and having a good time. I knew my guards would keep a close eye on them.

"Alright."

As we walked through the palace, Jake caught me up on some of the new information.

"We haven't come across any information about how to control your power, but the scroll does say your power is only activated through physical contact," he explained.

"Hmm." I acknowledged. That made sense. The first time I thought I'd killed Maggie, I never even touched her. I hadn't felt her life force, either. She'd been able to trick me because I was so out of control, I thought I'd just hadn't noticed what I was doing.

"That explains why Maggie only faked her death. What about you and Ciana at the pavilion? The two of you fainted. Why was that?"

"At the time, we assumed it was because of your power. With this new information, the Moonlit Crystal was also there. We don't know everything it can do, only Luther understood its true power. It could have easily been the cause of us fainting," Jake theorized.

"Hmm..." I pondered for a moment and thought of something that was far far away in my memory. Something that haunted me till this day. "There was still one more time that doesn’t make sense."

I stopped walking and turned toward Jake. He met my gaze and I knew that both of our minds wandered to the same incident.

"Jake, be honest. Have you ever resented me for making you my Beta?" I asked in a heavy tone, looking at my most loyal friend and subordinate.

"Alpha, if it weren't for you. I'd be dead." Jake shook his head and chuckled dryly.

"I killed two of your people. You don't hold that against me?"

It was a topic we both tried our best to avoid for years.

No one knew Jake was one of the innocent prisoners who shared the same cell with me when I was ten, along with twenty of his other pack mates. He was one of the kids.

Jake looked back at me a little longer this time. "With everything that has been happening lately, I've had a lot of time to think about things and,” he said, slowing down his usual speaking speed, "some memories from back then have started to come back to me."

must be hard to harbor the thoughts of seeing his friends

a hint of pain flickered in his eyes, but he kept his usual, calm tone. "That year, back when

"But-"

or I might lose my nerve because it is heavy," Jake interrupted

motioned

just a kid and I barely understood what was going on. But my grandfather and another elder decided you were our only hope

understood how painful the memory was for him.

grandfather... Well, he and another

Jake. What was he saying? I couldn't remember the details. I’d been starving and

you listening to

and saw the young kid curled up in the corner of a dark dungeon. His words

buried pretty deep." He took a deep breath and let it out as if he felt relieved of what he

my grandfather's choice to help save

couldn't believe

when

my fingers and lifted my hands. They'd been weapons for so long that sometimes

can avoid physical contact, your power won't activate," Jake

was happy to hear that I had more control over my power than I thought, even if I didn' t know how to turn

telling me this, Jake. And, still, I'm sorry for

Especially now,"

good as the new information was, however, it didn't help me with Ciana and her memory loss, or the fact that I might actually hurt her with my touch

Ciana," Jake

the scroll say

walking again, toward the room where Jake had the scroll tucked away. Only a select few were allowed to work on it, at least until we knew more about what it said and what power it had. Right now, no one else was

said. "Now, keep in mind, we don't know if any of them are

I demanded, holding my hand out and beckoning

about the White Queen and Dark King weren't just legends. Like our Dark King Lycaon, the White Queen also exists somewhere, and possibly still does," Jake

White Queen, or even of the Moon Goddess herself,

the White Queen like I

first time we encountered Luther? He put a curse on Ciana, one that she

been able to figure out what the curse was or what would break it. But Ciana still came back to us-

that Ciana's connection to the White Queen,

when Ciana and I were in the Moonlit Crystal we were the only ones that were able to recover

about how maybe the Moon Goddess really liked

wasn't a joke

"Does that mean... you think Ciana is also descended

more likely that she was a descendant if she hadn't been affected by you when she was weak. We think now that it is more likely she was blessed by the Moon Goddess or the

glanced over my shoulder at him. His

the blessing is wearing off, and that's why I... hurt

what you want to hear, but it is

blessing at all. Ciana had been given protection just long enough for me to know what it was like to touch someone I loved and hold her, to know her intimately and have a sense of every inch of her body curved into my soul, just for me to learn that I wouldn't be able to

it was my punishment all along to feel that joy only to have it ripped

blessed and the blessing was only weakened by her injury," Jake