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 was

neck, then

Sasha....

know the prophecy now, but you will," the man chuckled. “You will." He sheathed his dagger. “May you be the fulfillment of it, dream

so close that the familiarity became clear to me now. My

his hand up, and the orb pulsed and he was

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

my fearful child eyes and saw my mother's pale face cloaked

find her,"

to see it was the same man. He was much, much older, but the shape of his face and the eyes were the

new bone," he

shook her head. “Her baby teeth

fresh. We have to pull a tooth for a new potion, and this time, we need to make sure the spell can't

thundered in my chest as I remembered the pain and torment of what followed. I wanted

against her hold that was

“Sasha!"

hold became his secure

cried with my eyes shut tight. “Get them off of

bed

fluttered open, the tears behind them spilling out as I looked around an unfamiliar room. It had the feeling of an inn, or rather a hotel. The sheets were a

And there was Lucas.

as I tried to reorient myself to the world around

wondering

you went, you weren't sleeping,"

around me.

nodded at a beat-up, waterlogged bag sitting on the luggage stand near the closet. “I asked

us onto

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

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

hand to Lucas's cheek. “I was afraid, too. I was afraid the orb wouldn't get me back

growled, sliding his hand over mine.

long time ago. All the people were wearing old clothes. They ran away when they

his thumb along the back of

told me to give it back, until he figured out I was

what, princess?"

old… and with

Lucas frowned. “Your mother?"

my

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

I would

but so much

he be with

you broke

confused. “What does that…

a talisman, for protection. My mother believed it would help hide me

“Hide you from who?"

“My father's pack."

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