Sold As The Alpha King’s Breeder Chapter 352


    Chapter 11 My Bracelet


    My eyes flew open before the sun was fully up. I remembered instantly where I was, and my interaction


    with Prince Theo weighed on my mind.


    I took a few deep breaths, trying not to let his constantly irritated state get to me. I had slept well, had


    good dreams, and had a lot of energy pulsing through my veins. Why would I let his pessimism ruin my


    day before it had even begun?


    I nced down at my pillow and saw the flower that Prince Warren had given to me and instantly felt a


    rush of


    adrenaline.


    No wonder I’d gotten a good night of sleep. The blooms were slightly faded from the vibrancy they’d


    had when he’d first picked it and handed it over to me, but the fragrance still filled my lungs when I


    inhaled, and I thought it mightst another day or two.


    I quickly put the flower in the top drawer of the night stand and hopped up, ready to prepare for the day.


    Lots of hard manualbory in front of me, but I was mentally prepared for all of it.


    After a few hours, I had almost finished wiping down the entire wing. Almost, because the ceiling was


    too high for me to reach. While I was pondering what I should do to get


    myself up there, I had an overwhelming feeling that someone was watching me from behind.


    I looked down the hallway and saw a tall, lean forming toward me, and immediately, my heart


    knew who it was.


    Quickly, I sprinkled some water on the floor so I’d have an excuse to speak to him. “Be careful, Your


    Highness!” I called. “The floor is wet here!”


    “There you are!” Prince Warren greeted me as he approached, staying back from the area I’d just


    dampened. “I had wondered why you weren’t outside with the animals. So… you were chosen to be my


    brother’s personal attendant, huh?”


    Something was slightly off about his tone. He was saying kind words, but he didn’t exactly seem happy


    about the news.


    “This is my assignment, for now,” I said, keeping my head down. “It was… an ident… sort of.” I


    couldn’t quite exin to him how I happened to be at the pavilion at the same time that Prince Theo


    was expecting his attendant there.


    “Well… congrattions.” His smile looked forced for some reason that I didn’t understand.


    “Thank you,” I said. “But honestly… if I had a choice….” His eyebrows raised, and he took a step closer


    to me, as if he knew I was hesitant to say what I was trying to get out, which was true. “I wouldn’t have


    chosen to be Prince Theo’s attendant.”


    I wasn’t sure whether it was a good idea to share my displeasure about one prince with another prince,


    but looking at Warren’s face, I knew I could trust him.


    “Really?” His tone suddenly changed, and I thought I heard a bit of lightness to his voice. “Well, it looks


    like you’ve got quite


    a bit of work to do, cleaning up this wing of the castle. You know, a personal attendant isn’t meant to be


    a maid.”


    I felt my cheeks redden as I thought about how I had gone


    | into Prince Theo’s roomst night and ended up getting myself into this predicament. But at least I


    had something to do. “I don’t mind a bit of hard work,” I told him.


    “Perhaps I could help you? I’ve never done much cleaning, but I can give it a try.” He shed a kind


    smile to me that made my heart skip a beat, and I wondered if he could hear it.


    “I couldn’t ask a prince to help me clean!” I had to turn down his offer. “That wouldn’t be appropriate at


    all!”


    Prince Warrenughed, and the sound of it made my cheeks re up again. “You’re not asking me,


    silly,” he reminded me. “I’m volunteering-as a friend.”


    I was tempted to ept his offer to help, simply because I wanted to spend more time with him. I


    nced around and suddenly realized exactly what I could ask him to do. “Well, I am having a bit of


    trouble reaching those cobwebs up there in the corners,” I said, pointing one out to him. “I’m just not tall


    enough to reach, even on the stedder.”


    Prince Warren looked at them for a moment, his hand in his pocket as he studied the problem. He gave


    me a nod and smiled again. “I think I can help with that.”


    Taking hold of thedder and a duster with a long pole, he moved over to the corner and climbed up,


    stretching to reach the webs in the corners along the ceiling.


    When he did so, his sleeve moved back just enough, and my


    breath caught in my throat as I got another, clearer look at his bracelet.


    recognized it. Not only was it the same material and color as the one I’d given away as a gift all those


    years ago, I could see some wear on one of the beads. I remembered scraping it on a rough tree trunk


    when I was climbing in the woods one day.


    Trying not to stare, I looked away, but I couldn’t lose this opportunity to satisfy my curiosity. It had to be


    him!


    Clearing my throat, I said, “That’s an unique bracelet you have there, Your Highness. Where did you


    get it?”


    It took him a moment to respond since he was working. When he finally lowered the duster down, he


    said. “This?” He held it up so I could see it. His gaze seemed to get even softer as he said, “It was a gift


    I received a long time ago.”


    “Oh?” I asked, my heart thumping against my rib cage again. “From… whom?” I was fishing for


    information now. I needed to know what he remembered. Was there any way he recognized me?


    “Someone special gave it to me.” He climbed down off of thedder and moved it to another corner so


    he could reach


    another web above him.


    “Oh. That’s… nice. Do you have fond memories of receiving it?”


    “Uhm…yes. I suppose I do. She’s a very important person to me.” He turned and looked at me, and I


    had to avert my eyes, grabbing the mop and sliding it across the floor as if I were focused on my work.


    “Why did you ask?”


    “I-I was just curious.”


    That was going to be all the information I got from him for today before he got suspicious. I had to


    pretend like I didn’t know where it hade from.


    It wasn’t as if I could just blurt out to him that it hade from me, that I’d been the girl who saved him


    in the woods all those years ago. I wasn’t sure whether this was a good time for me to reveal that.


    Before I could even say anything else, an annoying voice hit my ear, and I suddenly wished I’d mopped


    the entire floor with the slickest soap possible.


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    “Well, isn’t that pathetic! Look at her, girls. She’s supposed to be one of Prince Theo’s bride candidates,


    but here she is again, doing the dirty work that only maids would do! She must have embarrassed


    Prince Theo so much that he can’t


    even stand to be near her.”


    Sophia stood a few feet away, her arms folded, her friends gathered at her shoulders, all of them


    looking down their noses at me. Sophia bowed down to greet Prince Warren, “You Highness, please do


    not be deceived by her. She would bring you nothing but disgrace. She was supposed to serve Prince


    Theo, yet now, she is shamelessly throwing herself at you!”


    Prince Warren turned to look at her and then climbed down off of thedder. I couldn’t quite read his


    expression. Was he irritated or amused?


    “What a whore!” Sophia added.


    Prince Warren frowned. “It’s notdy-like at all for you to


    speak that way. Likewise, you shouldn’t be spreading rumors and speaking unkindly about others.


    That’s not the job of a Luna.”


    Sophia opened her mouth but then closed it again, dropping her eyes. She raised them to re at me


    before she said, “Come along,dies. Let’s get back to the clean part of the castle. Clearly, this girl is a


    terrible maid who doesn’t know how to keep a ce swept up.”


    They went off, still making snarkyments about me, and I got the distinct feeling that she didn’t like


    me being so close to Prince Warren. She probably saw it as a threat to her somehow.


    What was more, she was going to be making more trouble for me soon. I could feel it.


    Once she was gone, I turned to Prince Warren. “Thank you for sticking up for me.”


    His warm hand touched me briefly on the shoulder. “You’re quite wee, my dear…”


    I felt a tingle of electricity roll through my arm.


    “…friend,” he finished his sentence. When he pulled away, my skin felt cold again.


    Prince Warren couldn’t stay long, but while he was there, I enjoyed hispany. He was so different


    from his brother, so much more thoughtful and kind. I wished I had been assigned to be his personal


    attendant instead of Prince Theo’s.


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    I wished I had been assigned as his bride candidate, for that


    matter….


    Later that evening, I headed to Prince Theo’s office to report


    my progress.


    I knocked on the door and waited for him to call me in, which took a long time. He didn’t exactly think


    about other people or try to spare them any trouble.


    When he finally called me into his office, I had to wait for him to finish whatever he was working on so


    that he was looking at me before I could even make a statement about what I had finished.


    His eyes were narrowed, and his expression was dark and sullen, even more so than usual. “Yes?” he


    asked me, dropping his pen and folding his arms across his chest.


    Clearing my throat, I said, “Your Highness, I finished cleaning the hallways today, and I was able to


    start on some of the empty rooms.”


    “Congrattions on doing your job. Do you want a medal or something?” ”


    “No…” I took a deep breath and tried my best to maintain a professional and respectful tone. “Your


    Highness. I only wanted to inform you of my progress.”


    My impression was that he wasn’t a man of many words, so I hadn’t expected him to be so sarcastic.


    Did he treat everyone around him like this or was it just me?


    “Yes, well, perhaps you would’ve gotten more done if you


    didn’t spend so much time chatting with whomever wandered by,” he said. His tone was t, but I could


    still tell he wasn’t exactly happy.


    My brows furrowed as I lifted my eyes to look at him. “Pardon me?” I had spoken to Prince Warren for a


    few minutes, and Sophia, which I didn’t even count as a conversation, but… that was earlier in the day.


    I had been working non-stop for the past several hours.


    But I bit my tongue. Arguing with a royal wouldn’t do me any good.


    “Everyone who works for me needs to follow one rule, Ciana.” I didn’t like the way my name sounded


    on his lips. “That is, to keep your mouth closed!”


    Nor did I appreciate what he was saying.


    He continued, “The pce isn’t as safe as you think. You’ll never know what information others want to


    get from you, and what you might have leaked…”


    What did he mean? Was he saying that Prince Warren was trying to spy on him and somehow harm


    him?! How ridiculous was that?!


    I had to say something. “Your Highness, the only person I spoke to was your brother! Prince Warren is


    a kind and gentle soul. All he did was to help me clean. There wasn’t a single word he asked about you


    or-”


    “That’s it.” He interrupted me, and his expression was even darker. He stared at me for a couple


    seconds and I had no


    idea what he was alluding to.


    “You’re no longer my personal attendant, Ciana ck,” he said coldly. “Effective immediately, you are


    being reced.”


    Taking a deep breath, I braced myself, trying to figure out what he meant.


    I was reced? By whom?