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 friends and family killed by a

usual, calm tone. "That year, back when

"But-"

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

and motioned for

was just a kid and I barely understood what was going on. But my grandfather and another

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

he and another elder decided

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

are you listening to

lifted my gaze to meet my Beta's, but I looked through him and saw the young kid curled up in the corner of a dark dungeon. His words continued to flow into my

deep." He took a deep breath and let

It was my grandfather's choice

couldn't believe

uncontrollable when you were ten. You fought it

been weapons for so long that sometimes I

contact, your power won't activate,"

that I had more control over my power than I thought, even if I

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

it. Especially now," Jake managed

however, it didn't help me with Ciana and her memory loss, or the fact

help with Ciana," Jake said, like he

scroll

work on it, at least until we knew more about what

in mind, we don't know if any

holding my hand

to the scroll, we were able to confirm that Dottie’s tale about the White Queen and Dark King weren't just legends. Like our Dark King Lycaon, the

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

of the White Queen like I

put a curse on Ciana, one that she was able to wake up from

It had been a mystery at the time. Dottie hadn't even been able to figure out what the curse was

and 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 elaborated,

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

maybe

a joke after

I looked at the floor. "Does that mean... you think

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

down and glanced over my shoulder at him. His head was bowed as

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

that isn't what you want to hear,

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

was my punishment all along to feel that joy only

the blessing was only weakened by her injury," Jake