Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder

Chapter 599

Chapter 99 : My Mate is There

*Xander*

I spent the short day watching the wall of mist along the horizon, wondering what the hell was on the other side and why Zeke hadn't gone with Ianthe.

Zeke finally crawled out of whatever hole he'd be hiding in around dusk, his face shielded from the lingering daylight by the hood of his cloak. He looked sunken, and his eyes were burning with frustration.

I flinched a bit as his eyes met mine, glowing like raw gold in the fading sunset. His expression went beyond the hurt of sending his sister away. He looked hungry.

“You can't eat me," I said quickly, rising to my feet. “My blood is like poison, apparently–"

“I don't feed on people," he sneered, rolling his eyes as he turned his gaze to the water. He sniffed indignantly, watching the surf. In a flash of black fabric and a spray of water, he disappeared below the surface.

I waited and waited for him to come back up, cursing his name after nearly five minutes had passed. That bastard was killing himself, I thought. And I still didn't know how to get to the Vampire King.

But his head breached the surface of the water in the distance, his mouth open and gasping for air as he began to swim back to shore. He rose to his feet, the gentle waves swirling around him as he carried several good-sized fish in his arms and dumped them on the rocky beach a few yards away from me.

He was sopping wet and irritated as he pointed his finger to the sack he'd been carrying around during our journey down the bluff and through the city.

“There's matches and kindling in there. Start a fire," he commanded.

“Yes, sir," I grumbled, watching as he knelt before the fish and chose his first meal.

I turned my gaze away before I witnessed him sucking the blood from a f*****g fish. That was something I didn't particularly care to see.

I started a small fire while Zeke did whatever he was currently doing behind me. Eventually, he dropped several pieces of driftwood next to me, sitting down with a long sigh of relief.

He'd dropped a fish in my lap, some creature I'd never seen before with pale pink flesh. I flayed it, laying it over a level piece of slate to roast above the embers.

“Thanks for leaving me some," I said, glancing at the pile of shriveled fish carcasses just visible in the distance.

Zeke shrugged, closing his eyes and tilting his face to the sky as dusk receded and night bloomed over the tops of our heads. “You're welcome."

I narrowed my eyes at him and popped a piece of fish into my mouth, chewing slowly. It had a strange flavor, slightly salty, but fish was fish.

“Why didn't you go with her?"

“Because it's a realm of daylight and sun. The boat wouldn't have moved if I'd stepped into it, anyway. I don't understand their magic, so don't ask."

“Okay…"

“And anyway, I need to return to Brune."

“You're still taking me to the Vampire King, right?"

“I'm taking you as far as I can," he said shortly, picking at the fish and putting a piece of it into his mouth.

“What do you need to do in Brune?" I asked, noticing his expression go hard as steel.

He eyed me, then looked away. “You ask a lot of questions–"

“You just seem like… I don't know, you'd rather do anything else but go home. How long have you been gone, anyway? Kiern and Costas didn't even mention that they had a son–"

He flexed his jaw, grinding his teeth as I uttered Costas's name. Interesting.

“At least a century, maybe more. You lose track of time after a while."

“And you don't get along with your dad?"

He clicked his tongue, his eyes meeting mine again with a silent nod.

“Well, he seemed fine to me," I murmured as I took another bite of the fish.

“He's just as bad as King Nikolas in many ways," Zeke said sharply.

I furrowed my brow, giving him a look of marked confusion. But that little flicker of unease I'd been holding onto since leaving Brune flared across my skin.

“Why?"

“Did you make any deals with him?" Zeke asked, and I sucked in my breath before explaining his desires to open a portal and allow his army, and the armies of the pack lands, to work as one against the Vampire King.

“But you didn't agree?" Zeke pressed, somewhat frantic.

“No, I didn't. My sole focus is getting my mate out of here."

Zeke nodded, but then looked to the sack of bloodstones on my belt. “You should get rid of those. Throw them in the water."

“Why?"

Before he could answer, a thundering cracking sounded above our heads, too loud and nearby to be a storm. The ground trembled, and I turned to Zeke just as a light split the sky into two.

I almost screamed, but I gathered myself as something the size of a man fell from the sky and into the water.

Zeke was panting and had covered his face with his hood from the light. We looked at each other, then out to the water as whatever, or whoever, had fallen from the sky resurfaced, coughing violently.

“f**k me, that hurt," said a voice over the sound of the waves, and I jumped to my feet.

“No f*****g way," I whispered, shock numbing my body as I ran to the water's edge. “Oliver?"

***

*Oliver*

Mom's letter was curt, and to the point. According to her, I was a hard-headed menace who didn't care about the repercussions of my actions. There was a war going on, for Goddess sake. Where the hell are you? So on, and so forth.

I folded the letter up and set it on the side table in the sparsely furnished bedroom I'd been living in for over a month now, tucked in the upper level of Gideon's house. I could hear Adrian and Abigail talking in hushed voices next door, bickering about something. Adrian has just returned from another trek back to the camps outside of Breles for information on the current situation in the pack lands. He'd returned with news about feuding Alpha's and bored warriors, and to my great surprise, a letter from my mother.

She was going to Winter Forest. My grandma, Rosalie, was still up there, tending to the refugees who had crossed the sea between Red lakes and the eastern continent. Clare, Sasha's mother, had been one of them, and after a month of speculation and worry, Sasha and her mother were to finally be reunited.

I knew something strange was going on in Winter Forest based on the wording of Mom's letter and her vague description of her itinerary. Aunt Hanna was going too; something was up.

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