Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder

Chapter 973

Chapter 24 : Rude Awakenings

*Sasha*

I could feel the air change around me as Lucas stretched his hand toward me. Panic gripped me and I let the orb slip from my fingers to reach for him. But he vanished as the now-glowing blue sphere took me away.

This time the trip was instant, and I found myself on my back in a space that was cold and musty, nothing like the Goddess's temple.

The floor beneath me was made of stone, my hands lay criss-cross on my chest, the orb cradled in my palms. There was no Lucas. There was no stranger. There was no train, no chasing rogues, and no evil priestess.

There was, however, an assembly of people in dated clothing, looking at an altar at the front of… well… a temple–not one for the White Queen, but another temple for certain.

Low murmuring and chanting echoed in the air, dying off as the people turned to look at me.

I stood to my feet, clutching the orb to my chest. There was only one of me and perhaps a hundred of them. I hated the stupid thing, but it was my only defense and possible way out if something went wrong.

It sure felt wrong.

Suddenly, people began screaming, rushing to get away from me, and running for the exit. As the doors to the temple burst open, I could see a castle, dark and foreboding, not far off. The people were running straight that way.

As everyone else cleared out, however, one man stayed. He had been at the front of the altar, leading the chants.

I stepped backward as he approached me, his eyes fixated on the orb.

“Where did you get the Slipstone?" he demanded, stalking toward me.

I took a step back, mentally willing the orb to return me to Lucas. “I… l found it."

“Lies," the man said. He was more richly dressed than the others had been. And he was… familiar somehow. His features conjured up… something, something troublesome in the back of my mind.

He moved like quicksilver to close the space between us, gripping my arm.

“It's the truth," I insisted. After all, it was half true. Lucas found it.

The man chuckled darkly. “Then, I suppose you won't mind me taking it back from you." He pulled a dagger from his belt.

I tried to wrench away but his grip tightened painfully.

Everything in me knew the last thing that ever needed to happen was this man getting his hands on the orb. I backed all the way to the wall, holding the orb tighter.

“Please, Goddess, please take me back," I whispered.

The orb began to glow.

He looked at it and then backed up staring open-mouthed at me. “Dream dancer.... You have the mark, the star?"

I clutched my arm to the side and felt my stomach drop.

“The prophecy… has it come to pass?"

“I… I don't know what you're talking about!" I shouted and he rushed me again, pushed me to the wall, and pinned me in place.

Sasha....

Lucas's voice, but I

neck,

Sasha....

the man chuckled. “You will." He

so close that the familiarity became clear to me now. My eyes widened and I gasped in disbelief. He looked

held his hand up, and the orb pulsed and he

I was gone, lost in a memory, or maybe meandering my way back through time. I saw myself crying in

through my fearful child eyes and saw

her,"

the same man. He was much, much older, but the shape of his face and the

new bone," he

head.

to be fresh. We have to pull a tooth for a new potion, and this time, we need

of what

my eyes tight, I struggled, fighting against her hold that was shockingly strong. I sobbed and cried and

“Sasha!"

mother's strong hold became his secure embrace as I tried fighting whatever was still

cried with my eyes shut

it's just the bed sheets and blankets,

out as I looked around an unfamiliar room. It had the feeling of an inn,

And there was Lucas.

at the local clinic." Lucas explained, rubbing my shaky upper arms soothingly as I tried to reorient myself to the world around me. “You were asleep. You reappeared and

I croaked, wondering if I'd been

you went, you

I looked around me. “Where is

a beat-up, waterlogged bag sitting on the luggage stand near the

one who pulled us onto the train," I

you off the train when the shifters showed up. Luckily, I was able to grab him as well. We jumped in a lake… and

edge of the bed, and we were so close we were breathing the same air. He leaned forward and bumped his forehead against mine.

Lucas's cheek. “I was afraid, too. I was afraid the

“What man?" he growled, sliding his hand over mine. He threaded our fingers together, then

ago. All the people were wearing old clothes. They ran away when they saw me, or rather saw the orb–all except him.

along the back

my head. “He called it a Slipstone and told me to give it back, until he figured out I was a dream dancer. Then he started going on about

princess?" Lucas

swallowed. “He was old… and with

Lucas frowned. “Your mother?"

shook my head.

throat as I thought about the memories of what he did, what my mother's superstition had thought would be

the emerald of the necklace Lucas gave me knowing that I would

with my mother, but so

would he be

broke my

confused. “What does that…

believed it would help hide me in Winter

“Hide you from who?"

“My father's pack."

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