Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder

Chapter 129: Mysterious Ways

Normally, I didn’t mind traveling by boat.

But for the first couple of days, every wave turned my stomach and made me run straight for the bathroom.

I wasn’t sure if it was because I was pregnant or because I was so sad over losing Jared… again.

The mate bond was gone all over again. I’d had to do it, though. It was the only way to be there for my family and right now, they needed me more than Jared did.

The threat to the Dark Realm was nearly gone. Hestia was all that was left, and she was weak.

Lena was in trouble, and so was the White Queen line.

Even though the boat was small, Xander assigned two Royal Guards to me. They followed me around everywhere I went and were constantly stationed outside my door.

They didn’t talk to me much, but I knew they were always there.

I went to the back of the boat and watched the Dark Realm fading into the distance.

The memory of Jared’s pained, broken look as the boat pulled away from the dock swam in my mind.

My stomach clenched and I sniffled.

One of the guards handed me a tissue. I nodded and wiped my eyes. That was some real, full-service guard duty….

I headed to Lena’s room and sat next to her bed. There’d been no change since we got on the boat. I hadn’t expected to see any change in her, but it worried me about how still she was getting.

She used to jerk when I touched her. Now, the reactions were less and less.

Was her brain shutting down already?

When I left the palace, I hadn’t had a lot of clothes to bring with me but I had seen some familiar books on a shelf in my room. I didn’t think Lena would mind me borrowing them.

I kept one of the books in her stateroom. It was one of her favorites.

The healers made it seem like since she was asleep, she could still hear us. Xander talked to her a lot but as king, he couldn’t be with Lena all the time.

I picked up the book and started reading where I’d left off. For some reason, I thought that if I kept reading to her and talking to her, she’d hear me and hold on a little longer. She would fight to stay alive.

I read a few ##Chapters and then set the book aside. Taking Lena’s hand, I squeezed her fingers four times until I got a reaction from her.

“Don’t ever stop doing that, okay?” I asked.

There wasn’t much else I could do except be there for her.

Xander joined me. “How is she today?”

“The same.” I sighed and bowed my head.

“Thank you, Eliza, for reading to her and being with her when I can’t.”

“She’s my cousin. I’m not giving up on her.”

“And I know she will be forever grateful to you for that, as am I, and our children.”

Xander’s kind words, I could sense that he wanted to be

later and read to her more.” I gave Lena’s hand one last squeeze

the deck. I knew it like the back of

leaving Lena’s room. Other than reading to her and walking around, there wasn’t

got upset. On the deck I got fresh

Every time I walked the deck, I ended up there,

and I could still see

I whispered

with me, I still felt alone. Why hadn’t Jared asked to come along? If he had… maybe none of

just assumed. Instead of being supportive, he’d dismissed my concerns about my

I covered it with my hands like I

all wrong.

the rejection coursed through me again and tears wet my eyes.

It

fade through blurry eyes and returned

the Light

in to meet the boat. Xander

Lena and took them straight to the hospital. I stood on the deck and watched the helicopter disappear; my unruly, curly hair even

me on the boat, but a heart-sinking loneliness set in.

right thing,” I told myself, pacing back and forth on the

and I stopped pacing, wrapping my arms

guard was there

and dabbed at

I could tell

a little. “Oh,

eyes twinkled with kindness, and his smile was so genuine and pure. “Only if you

someone to talk to, now

oblige. My

“I’m Eliza.”

become friends, but it lightened my mood to have someone else

headed to the hospital and met up

“Any news?” I asked.

of tests. The doctors think that the best course of action is to give her a blood transfusion to

could work.”

noticed that Xander still didn’t

“What’s wrong?”

that she loses her White Queen powers. Of course, I’d rather have her be alive and without her powers than

nodded in understanding. Lena was a White Queen. To lose her powers could devastate her, even

wanted to stay close to Lena. The first night I was there, I tossed and turned, thinking

daughter lose her powers

sleep and found

in the hospital room where Lena was sleeping.

She didn’t look like she was sick, poisoned,

cheeks were rosy and

me a moment to realize she wasn’t wearing her hospital gown. She was wearing an elegant, white dress with

definitely a dream

with a glittering mist

her hands folded over her chest with a bouquet of white carnations clutched in