Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder

Chapter 873

Chapter 79 : Amassing An Army

Rubbing my eyes, I groaned and sat up.

How late had I stayed up last night? How much had I had to drink?

I rolled over and bumped into Jared. Squinting one eye open, I saw him sitting up in bed, shirtless.

My other eye popped open and I stared at Jared's toned, muscular chest. Sun poured through the window and made his skin glow.

“Ahh, you're awake." Jared smirked at me.

I pulled myself up and yawned, stretching my arms out to the sides. “What time is it?"

“Almost noon."

“What? Really?" I looked out the window.

“Yeah. The Saboreef Elder asked us to meet him today. We shouldn't keep him waiting."

Jared got up and pulled his clothes on.

My eyes followed his hands as the fabric slid over his muscles, concealing his gorgeous body from view. Sighing, I got up and put my own clothes on.

Jared and I followed the elder's directions to a Saboreef temple not that far from the village. The elder stood at the large stone altar, which had several old parchment rolls and tomes laid out on it.

“What's all this?" I asked. I turned the pages in one of the tomes.

It crinkled and felt thin and brittle.

“This is a story that I think the two of you would like to hear." He motioned to me, and my pendant.

Instinctively, I grabbed the locket and ran it back and forth along the chain that dangled around my neck.

“About the locket?" Jared asked, raising an eyebrow.

The elder nodded. He picked up one of the tomes and flipped through several pages.

“Ahh, here we are," he said, tapping the top of the page. “Many, many years ago, a woman came to the temple, this temple. She was a mystery to us and kept herself shielded under a cloak."

I glanced at Jared, catching the deep crease in his brow. I wondered if he recognized that description. It was pretty vague, but something seemed to be bugging him.

Reaching out, I took his hand.

He glanced at me. “My mother," he mouthed.

I nodded and squeezed his hand. I hated seeing his handsome features scrunched up like that, like he was in pain.

“This woman came to us with a very simple request… simple, though unusual. She asked for a piece of jewelry to be crafted from an old, broken artifact...."

The story sounded a little familiar to me. I knew I'd never heard it before, but it sounded almost like the beginning of another story I knew, like a prequel to something else that had happened.

I kept holding the locket between my fingers, hooking the chain around my chin.

The day I'd composed the song… my mind floated back to that day. I hadn't made it up. The words had come to me from a dream. There'd been a woman humming that song. I could envision it and hear it so clearly.

She hadn't just been humming the song, though, she'd been singing… singing words....

my grip on

“Ow," he muttered.

his beautiful orbs, drowning in the depth of his

“Jared...."

he asked, his eyes deepening

and stared at us

just remembered.

arched an

words, like lyrics,"

“What are they?"

“Well, I don't remember." Sighing, I dropped

the

when I breathed it in. On the page

wasn't a


it wasn't a

the words and

whispered, running my hand

never falter, the Diadem of

break free from Draven's hold. Find it in the heart of the Light Realm and break the

what does it

up at Jared, my eyes wide. I could barely believe what I was reading. But

think this is the answer to everything we've been looking for. Jared, I think this is

he

any more. Quickly, I brushed some of the dust off

only be broken by going to the heart of

Diadem of Nyx?" he asked, his brow furrowing as he looked up

shrugged. “But if we transfer the dark curse to the Diadem,

the book and set it back on the altar. Turning to me, he grabbed my

the marks and followed Jared's thumb with my

celebration and the partying, one of the women showed me something

“What?"

a map of the Realm of Light, of

the tome again, right to the page where he'd left off. His eyes

located in the Temple of the

we're going to

***

*Jared*

plans. We wouldn't need long to prepare for our trip to

hope at thinking we actually had a chance to break the curse, not just

we really have a chance at our happily

'Jared?'

Archer through the

it?'

They are looking to make good on their promise to

We should

'I'll come to you.'

what's wrong?"

the small of her back, not

some news for us. We're going to meet with him briefly before we go to

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