Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder

Chapter 631

Chapter 131 : The Ambassador

*Lena*

Xander planted a rough, hungry kiss on my lips and any shyness or apprehension vanished in an instant.

“I missed you," he said into my neck as I continued to clutch him against me, my fingers curling into the fabric of his shirt.

“How long have you been in Mirage?" I asked when I finally pulled away to look up at him. He was clean-shaven and dressed in casual trousers and a button-down shirt, with a white undershirt beneath. He looked more like a random resident of Mirage than an Alpha King, but I was more than okay with that. I reached up involuntarily and ran my fingers through his black curls, which were brushed back away from his face. He'd gotten a haircut since the last time I saw him. He looked.... Well, he looked so much healthier, and happier, since we'd parted ways after the war.

“Only a few hours," he replied, leaning down to press a kiss to my forehead. “I'm on my way to meet with someone, actually–"

“Meet with someone?" I laughed, pushing away from him. “Was that someone not me?"

“Well, I had to meet with them first, and they're on my way to the castle," he smiled with a shrug. “I didn't expect to run into you, but I'm glad I did. I think you should go with me."

He took my hand and began to lead me away, drinking deeply from the lemonade I'd bought for Mom.

“Who is it?" I asked.

“The ambassador for the vampires who are settling in the east," he replied. I halted, an uneasy feeling settling in my stomach.

“What?"

He turned to face me again, and I could tell by the look in his eyes that he totally understood my hesitation.

“There are a lot of them," he began, “and some, especially the families with children, have expressed the desire to spread out. There were four kingdoms of lower vampires, and they don't all get along, as well as those who had been enslaved by the king for… centuries. There's just not enough room in Crimson Creek for all of them, and your dad is planning on relocating some of the families to Mirage."

“My dad? You saw him?"

“I did," he said, blowing out his breath. “He doesn't like me very much, but I told him I'd check in on the ambassador. The vampires will start arriving at the end of the summer, from what I've been told. Winter Forest has also offered to accept at least three dozen families…"

started walking again. How hadn't I known this was happening? Mom knew, surely. She had to have

close by. The lower vampires were a totally different type of people compared to the Death Walkers who had battled against the allied forces for weeks. They were… good, at least

something was nagging at me as we walked

hanging near the doorframe. A bistro table and chairs sat outside, basking in the shade that was filtering through the shade of several magnolia

behind the

heart was in my throat when Xander knocked on the door. It opened a crack, and whoever was behind it paused

open, and I closed it immediately, raising my eyebrows at the tall vampire male who

he nodded at me, a ghost of a smile touching

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low tones around the corner. They were sitting in the snug kitchen at a breakfast table, and every once

at the baby she'd placed in my arms, his cheek resting against the curve of my stomach as he made little suckling motions

smiled weakly, meeting my eyes. “My mom says he looks just like

the cottage but was out running errands. I could

to know what happened, right?" she said, meeting

a vocal reply. I adjusted little Caleb's weight in my arms and settled into a comfortable position on the couch.

student," she began, a soft sigh leaving her lips. “So I assume you know why I was in Crimson

nodded, wondering if she could read the conflicting emotions playing

approached us, telling us about a party at one of the estates. They wanted to go, and

“Why?"

being watched. We were testing the soil in the village one day and had traveled out past the

said, and her eyes shot to mine as she

to Morhan and tried to research it, but I couldn't find anything about it in the texts available in the library. But I found

added, “but it

at the mention

you read the book?" she asked. I sighed and nodded, a look of understanding passing between us. “Useless, right? That's why I began to ask questions. Our soil samples and the samples of blood root we'd sent back to Morhan for testing were lost, and when my

chest. Carly smiled weakly at him, her eyes glistening for a moment as she continued, “My roommates went to that party. I went back to our apartment and gathered my books in my backpack to go study in the foyer of the hotel, which felt like a safer place than where we were

us, and I turned my head to look through the doorway to the sitting room and across the hall into the kitchen. Lincoln's face was grave, but he turned

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