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."

man." It must be hard to harbor the thoughts of seeing his

right." He let out a breath, a hint of pain flickered in his eyes, but he kept his usual, calm tone. "That year, back when you were ten and Sebastian threw you in jail with us. Well, I remember how you would rather starve to

"But-"

because it is heavy," Jake interrupted me.

and motioned for

I was just a kid and I barely understood

I understood how painful the memory was for him. He'd lost family that

another elder

popped open wide and I stared at Jake. What was he saying? I couldn't remember the details. I’d been starving and half

are you listening

saw the young kid curled up in

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

It was my grandfather's choice to help

believe

wasn't uncontrollable when you

fingers and lifted my hands. They'd been weapons for so long that sometimes I forgot they were also

avoid physical contact, your

that I had more control over my power than I thought, even if I didn' t know how to turn it off when

this, Jake. And, still, I'm

years. I've moved past it. Especially now," Jake managed to put on a

as the new information was, however, it didn't help me with Ciana and her

it doesn't help with Ciana," Jake

scroll say anything

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 around, just me and

theories about that," Jake said. "Now, keep in mind, we don't know if any of them are true or have

I demanded, holding my hand out and beckoning Jake to

weren't just

the White Queen, or even of the Moon Goddess herself, that could explain her immunity to

Jake was saying. Could Ciana be the descendent of the White Queen like I was of the Dark King? It would be poetic if that were the

Ciana, one that she was able to wake up from on her own," Jake reminded

Dottie hadn't even been able to figure out what the

Warren have looked into it more extensively. They think that Ciana's connection to the White Queen, or even the Moon Goddess, is what protects her from your power," he

were starting to make sense. The curse was lifted spontaneously, and when Ciana and I were in the Moonlit Crystal we

a joke about how maybe the Moon

it wasn't a

that mean... you think Ciana is also descended from the Moon

was weak. We think now that it is more likely she was

at him. His head was bowed

wearing off,

what you want to hear,

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

was my punishment all along to feel that

it is possible she is still blessed and the