Sold As The Alpha King’s Breeder Chapter 347
Chapter 6: My Prince Charming
*Theo*
My eyes were focused on the files in front of me, but my thoughts were elsewhere. The scent of blood
lingered in my office even after the cleaners had spent hours scrubbing my office upside down, and
after all the furniture was reced.
There was a knock on the door and I looked up to see Jake standing there. I was expecting him. “Any
luck tracking down the assassins?” | started with my question.
He shook his head as he crossed the room to stand in front of my desk. “Nothing yet. I’ve got a team
working on it.”
I nodded. I had figured as much. “Their entrance and exit was quick… too quick.”
“I agree. I believe they knew the pce quite well. We haven’t found a single trace of them anywhere.
This was defi nitely a professional job,” my Beta said.
I considered his words and found them to be in line with what I had experienced. This was a crafty
enemy. Not just anyone could’ve pulled it off. “What did Father have to say about the whole thing?”
“I haven’t spoken to him about it yet. I doubt he knows.”
“Very well. Leave it to me.”
“Alpha, you want to-”
“Father doesn’t trust anyone,” I reminded him. “Even me.”
“Of course, Alpha.” He paused and then asked, “So… why did you spare the girl?”
The girl.
A streak of anger red up inside of me thinking about her. How dare she speak to me like that?
After taking a deep breath, I replied, “If she’s smart, she won’t say a word to anyone, especially not
now.” She was in the zoo, after all, and that should teach her a lesson.
“Uhm, about that.”
“Yes?” My eyes went back to Jake’s face, wondering what he wanted to say about her.
He inhaled deeply, held it for a second, and then in a timid voice not matching his girth, he replied, “I
think you may have underestimated this girl.”
| raised a brow and studied him for a moment before seeking rification. “Underestimated her how?
Are you say ing she’s one of them?” That wasn’t possible, a tiny thing like her, covered in dirt….
“No, no. I’ve done a thorough background check on her. She’s definitely not one of them. That’s not
what I meant, Al pha.”
“Well, then what is it, Jake?” | asked, growing more irritat ed by the second. “Unless…” | paused for a
second, and frowned, “they have disobeyed my orders and actually harmed her?”
“They” meaning my animals. But how could that be possi ble? They had never done anything against
my orders.
Then again, that girl just seemed to be a ma for trou ble. What if they really…
“No, not that either.”
I let out a breath that I’d just realized I’d been holding a bit longer than I should have.
“I let her out,” Jake said. He leaned back away and looked at me a bit surprised. “Alpha, are you okay?
You seemed wor ried.”
“I’m fine.” I rxed my body. “You let her out already? She fainted that quickly?” | smirked. “Good! She
needs to learn. When you see her again, tell her that next time she won’t be so lucky, and that my
animals would be happy to break her brittle bones,”
“Alpha,” Jake cleared his throat, not meeting my gaze, “she didn’t faint. You said that once the animals
were all fed, she could be released. So,”
I was surprised. “So… she figured out that I meant to have her literally feed the animals?”
She was smarter than I’d thought then.
“Yes, she did, very quickly. She fed them. Every single one of them, and when I went to check on her,
she was… she was petting Linus’s head.”
“What?” My eyes widened in shock. Linus was my lion.
1978. I knew my displeasure was clearly written on my face, so
Jake quickly concluded, “That’s right. She got along with all of the animals quite well. Since she
completed the task you as signed her, I let her out.”
Instead of being scared to death by my friends, she’d had a grand time ying with them?!
“Alpha…?”
It took me a few seconds to digest this news. Eventually, I narrowed my eyes and scoffed, “Did she
really think she could get out of this so easily? You said she likes animals? Good, she can take care of
them from now on!”
“But, Alpha, you do remember that she’s here to be part of your father’s attempt at finding you a wife,
right? I worry that if the king finds out that you treat her like a servant…”
“You heard what I said.”
Jake lowered his head. “Yes, Alpha. I will make it happen.”
***
* Ciana*
Yellow scales shimmered in the sun as I gave Prince Theo’ s pet python thest of his treats. We were
warming up to one another, and I thought thest few days I’d spent bringing him his tasty meals might
be enough for him to finally con cede that he liked me, but he was still keeping his distance.
I had no doubt I’d win him over, though. The other ani mals and I were already good friends. I’d grown
up limat ing myself to wild beasts, so this menagerie was perfect for me. Even the lions and tigers
enjoyed a good belly rub every
day after they’d had their bs of meat.
To anyone else, this new assignment might be terrifying. They probably would’ve assumed that the
uncaged animals would eat them alive, but it was a dream job for me.
If I was going to live in the pce for the next three years, I’d much rather spend my time with these
wild creatures than the one that upied the wing where I’d witnessed a ugh ter just a few days
ago.
The animals’ food was kept in a shed on the other end of the pce, and every day, I had to make
multiple trips hauling it out to the courtyard where the animals lived. That was the onlyint I had
about this task-the buckets were heavy, the smell of flesh always made my stomach turn, and there
was also the waste involved.
But even if it wasn’t the most morous job I’d ever done, I was still much happier here than I’d been
with the group ofcent girls, listening to their ambitions of how to bee a queen someday.
I heard voices nearby as I was dragging arge pile of meat on the way back to the zoo. My stomach
turned even more at the sight of Sophia and some of her friends standing
at the other end of the pathway, staring down at me.
I rolled my eyes at those girls, who were from smaller packs, flocking around Sophia like she was
already the queen and they wanted to ensure her favor. They might as well have bent down and kissed
her feet.
I had to move the bucket past where they were standing, so I heard their nastyments as I came
by.
“It’s sad really, in a pathetic way,” Sophia was saying in her snooty voice. “She tried to seduce the
prince, sneak into his room early in the morning and have her way with him, and now she’s here,
picking up lion shit.” All of the girlsughed, but Sophia’s high-pitched giggle was the most grating to
my ears
I didn’t even bother to look over at her. She wasn’t worth my time. Instead, I continued to move my
bucket of food to ward my work zone.
“Really,” Sophia continued, “someone so desperate de serves to be eaten by the wild beasts… not that
they’d find much meat on her scrawny bones!”
Again, they were allughing. I stood up straight and turned to face her. While I didn’t want to cause
trouble, I also wasn’t going to just take the verbal beating without doing anything about it. But before I
was able to say anything, a cor dial voice rang out behind us.
“Pardon me?”
I looked toward the speaker and caught my breath. The morning sun radiated off of his dark hair. His
dark eyes deep with concern stared down at Sophia, and I couldn’t move. All could do was stand there
and gaze at him in silence.
“Prince Warren?” Sophia said, and all of the girls quickly curtsied to the prince.
He didn’t acknowledge that effort. “Listen, I don’t know why you think it’s bing of a youngdy of
your standing to waste her time name calling out and poking fun at another youngdy, but I do think
it’s quite disappointing to see Al phas’ daughters acting in such an ugly fashion.”
“Your Highness…” Sophia and the other girls mumbled.
“Now, go on about your business before I find some chores for you to do.” He gestured for them to
leave the area, and all of the girls gathered up their long skirts and hastened away.
| continued to stare at him for a moment, wanting to thank him but unable to find my voice. He moved
closer and stopped right in front of me, his smile kind and inviting.
Was he really who I had been looking for? One way or an other, I had to verify this.
“I’m very sorry for the trouble,” he said in an apologetic tone, even though there was nothing he should
have been apologizing for.
I shook my head, and when I finally forced a response out, it was a bit hoarse. “N-no, thank you kindly,
Your Highness.”
His smile softened even more. “Ah, it’s you again. Tell me, how did you get to be in such a situation,
taking care of my brother’s pets?”
ughed at his use of the word “pets” as they would seem like anything but to most people.
I didn’t want to repeat the whole story, so I told him the same thing I had told Brook. “I couldn’t sleep
the other night. I’ d left my room without permission, which is against the rules, and this is the result.”
A chuckle escaped his perfect lips. “Well, I suppose you havemitted a crime and must serve your
time.”
He was teasing me. I could tell. “I don’t mind,” I said, speaking from my heart. “I enjoy the animals. In
my experi ence, they’re better behaved than some of the girls I’m meant to spend my days with.”
“Yes, indeed,” Warren agreed, looking back over his shoul der in the direction in which the other girls
had left. “And you’ re very brave,” he praised.
I felt my face start to heat up.
“Hold on just a moment, won’t you?” he asked.
I nodded, not sure why he had asked, and he jogged over to the far side of the pathway toward a tree
with beautiful pink blossoms on it.
I watched him reach up to pick a flower, and when he did so, his shirt sleeve moved back just a bit.
A gleam of sunlight caught an object there on his arm, and my breath caught in my throat.
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I was still in shock when he returned to me. “Give me your hand.” He ced it on my open palm. When
our fingertips touched, I felt a slight tingle. “This flower will help.”
Flower… he was picking a flower for me again! Did he re member that he had picked one for a girl in
the woods years ago?
“What is it?” | asked him, pulling my hand away and trying to hide my reaction by sniffing the flower. It
smelled lovely, and I felt myself rxing and just inhaling the floral bouquet.
“It’svendlilly.” His white teeth were dazzling in the sun’s rays as he smiled down at me. “It has
calming properties that will help you to sleep well, dream deeply, and awaken well rested. You said you
couldn’t sleep? So put it on your pillow at night, and I promise you’ll have sweet dreams.”
“Thank you…”
“I must be off. It was nice speaking to you. By the way, what’s your name?”
“Ciana.”
“Ciana ck…” he said, “Beautiful name!”
“How do you know myst name?”
“Because… I have a good memory!” He winked at me, and then I remembered that Beta Xavier called
out myst name when I tripped and fell on Prince Warren the first time we met.
I blushed, and he let out a heartyugh. Then he waved at me. “See you around, Ciana!”
I lifted my hand, but I was so entranced that I couldn’t speak because all I could think about was what
I’d seen on the arm of Prince Warren.
It was… my bracelet.
So he must truly be the same man I’d met in the woods all of those years ago… but it was too good to
be true that I would have had such a memorable encounter with a prince?
“Ciana!” Brook’s voice carried over the bridge, snapping me out of my trance. “There you are. Hurry!
We’re being sum moned by the king!”