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."

It must be hard to harbor the thoughts of seeing

he kept his usual, calm tone. "That year, back when you were ten and Sebastian threw you in jail with us. Well, I remember

"But-"

my nerve because it is heavy," Jake

motioned for

weaker and weaker. I was just a kid and I barely understood

I understood how painful the memory was for

Well, he and another elder decided to hold

the details. I’d been starving

are you

the young kid curled up in the corner of

deep." He took a deep breath and let

to harm us. It was my grandfather's choice to help save the rest of

couldn't believe what I

when you were ten. You fought it and almost killed

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

physical contact, your power won't

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

this, Jake. And, still, I'm sorry for your

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

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

know, it doesn't help with Ciana," Jake said, like he was reading

scroll

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

a few theories about that," Jake said. "Now, keep in mind, we don't know

demanded, holding my hand out and beckoning Jake to

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

some connection to the White Queen, or even of the Moon Goddess

and contemplated what Jake was saying. Could Ciana be the descendent of the White Queen like I was of the Dark

on Ciana, one that she was able to wake up

even been able to figure out what the curse was or what would break it. But Ciana still

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, "to

I were in the

a joke about how maybe the Moon

a joke

looked at the floor. "Does that mean... you think Ciana is also

would have been more likely that she was a descendant if she hadn't been affected by you when she was weak. We think now that

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

blessing is wearing off, and that's

my mind. I know that isn't what you want to hear, but it is just a theory,"

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

it was my punishment all along to feel that joy only

blessed and the blessing