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....

grip on Jared, squeezing his

“Ow," he muttered.

looking deeply into his beautiful orbs, drowning

“Jared...."

asked, his eyes

stopped reading and stared

just remembered. It has

arched

like lyrics,"

“What are they?"

I don't remember." Sighing, I dropped

the elder

heavy and dusty, making my nose itch when I

it wasn't a


wasn't

the words and

song," I whispered, running my hand over the

the bonds of Draven's hate, you must be brave and never falter, the Diadem of Nyx is what you must take, when you find it

make it powerful enough to break free from Draven's

what does

at Jared, my eyes wide. I could barely believe

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

he grabbed the

any

heart of the Realm of Light,"

he asked, his

we transfer the dark curse to the Diadem, then it won't

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

down at the marks and followed Jared's thumb

I almost forgot. With the celebration and the partying, one of the women showed me something about the marks

“What?"

map of the Realm of

smiled and opened the tome again, right to the page

Diadem is located in the Temple

like we're going to the Realm

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*Jared*

and I were used to making quick travel plans. We wouldn't need long

in a long time, I felt a swell of hope at thinking we actually had a chance to break the curse, not just

we really have a chance at our

'Jared?'

Archer

it?'

are looking to make good on their promise to overthrow the

should discuss this

'I'll come to you.'

what's wrong?"

lovely, bright eyes gazed into mine. I had my hand on the

We're going to meet with him briefly before we go to

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