Sold As The Alpha King’s Breeder Chapter 369


    Chapter 27 Prince Theo, Be My Servant


    Jake drove us to my packnds. The ride was almost ten hours, and Theo and I spent most of the trip


    in rtive silence. The good thing was, the car used to transport royals was spacious enough for the


    two of us to maintain a


    To not draw any unwanted attention, we were dropped off


    at the border of our packnds, and we would walk the rest


    of the way.


    Theo suddenly began to speak. “Who am I?”


    I cocked my head to the side and studied his face for a moment. Did the brioche he had for lunch give


    him


    amnesia?


    Then I understood what he meant.


    He couldn’t go into my pack as Prince Theo. It wouldn’t be safe for the security of the pce for people


    to know he


    wasn’t there.


    At the moment, he was wearing a pair of nice gray cks and a blue button–down shirt that made him


    look almost like a regr person-


    An incredibly handsome regr person with perfectly straight teeth, hair that was never out of ce,


    and the muscles of a warrior….


    “Doesn’t the king know you’re gone?” I asked him, still not sure what we should say about his identity.


    “I told him I had some work to take care of right away and hinted that it might have to do with an


    uprising without being so bold. He is obsessed with this wife hunt at the moment and thinks that


    nothing else is as important.”


    “Except for perhaps squashing a rebellion?” I filled in for


    him.


    ”


    “Precisely.”


    That made sense. “Well, if you really want to go incognito, I suppose you’ll just have to be my servant.”


    I couldn’t help the sly smile that covered my face as I drew the conclusion.


    “Your… servant?” He said thatst word like it was an


    obscenity, a word his mouth couldn’t articte.


    “That’s right. What’s wrong with being a servant?” I leaned


    over and whispered, “Is it beneath you, Your Highness?”


    He only increased his glower. “Yes.”


    Laughing, I pulled my bag up my shoulder. “Oh, well, I


    suppose you probably have a better idea, what with you being the most intelligent, sophisticated, wise


    man in all of


    thend.”


    He was right on my heels as I headed toward the exit. I felt his breath on my neck as he ordered,


    “Think again, if you don’t want to be punished.”


    A shiver went down my spine, but it had nothing to do with the threat from his words. No, this trill was


    from something


    else.


    I turned to smile at him. “That’s the best I coulde up with. We don’t have much time; the vige is


    right there. We need a name for you too. How about Mikey-”


    “Don’t call me that,” he snapped.


    “Bobby.”


    “Something else.”


    “Right… well, considering how you have been nothing but a pain in my backside, how about Thorn?”


    A low rumble emanated from the back of his throat, and it made meugh.


    “Thorn it is.” Then I reminded him, “And please suppress your Alpha demeanor and don’t scare people


    away.”


    He let out a humph, and I took it as an “okay.”


    I led the way across the countryside to the town where I’d grown up. Just being back here brought a


    smile to my lips. I breathed in the fresh air, looking around, my eyes darting off among the trees and the


    forest that surrounded the


    town.


    I hadn’t been gone that long, but it felt like a lifetime.


    As we approached the gate, I noticed immediately that something was off. Normally, my father had at


    least a dozen guards stationed there, but I saw no one.


    Theo noticed, too. “Where are the guards?”


    “I don’t know.” I didn’t need to say more because he could read my expression. This wasn’t normal.


    “Halt!” I heard a high–pitched voice shout, and turning to my left, I saw a familiar face running toward


    me. She was wearing a uniform that was way too big for her, and the way she was practically galloping,


    moving so slowly, with her clothes billowing around her, was almostical.


    “Susan?” I questioned as she stopped in front of me.


    “Miss Ciana!” she eximed, her expression of fear melding into something else. Shock maybe? “What


    are you doing here?”


    Luther said there was an imposter, but based on Susan’s reaction, it seemed that they were still


    expecting me to be away in the pce. Did that mean, somehow, I’d beaten the imposter here?


    Or was I misunderstanding the situation?


    “I came back to… uhm… I was dismissed.” My eyes went


    wide as I considered what I should or should not say.


    “Dismissed?” she questioned, releasing me. “What do you mean? Oh! You mean from the prince? I had


    heard this whole thing was about the Dark Prince trying to find a luna. Is that true, then?”


    I nodded, trying to look solemn. “Yes, unfortunately, Prince Theo and I were not a match. He was


    looking for a selfish, angry brat. And he found one rather quickly in a girl named Sophia.”


    Prince Theo cleared his throat next to me.


    “Oh, dear. I’m so sorry to hear that.” Susan, who had been a governess to me for several years, patted


    my arm. We’d always been close, but she was very gullible, and it had


    always been easy for me to pull one over on her. “Well, I’m actually kind of d. As much as it


    would’ve been nice to know that you had be the princess, I was a little concerned. After all,


    everyone knows how dangerous he is!”


    From behind me came a low growl, and I almostughed. How must Prince Theo feel, standing there,


    hearing her say


    those things about him when he wasn’t himself?


    “Oh, who is this?” Susan asked, seeming to notice him for


    the first time.


    She was apparently very good at guard duty.


    “This is… my servant,” I said. “Thorn.”


    “Oh?” There was a high, intriguing tone to her voice as she stepped around me to look at him. “Hi


    Thorn.”


    Theo mildly nodded his head as his response. That was the


    best Susan could get out from the prince.


    “He’s awfully handsome,” she said with her hand next to her


    mouth, but she didn’t lower her voice. “Are you sure he’s


    not your boyfriend?”


    I choked on my own spit and started coughing to cover up my embarrassment. “Thorn? No, no, please,


    Susan! Don’t be ridiculous.”


    “But if he didn’t have that scowl on his face, he’d be so cute.


    And you so deserve a handsome, kind young man, Miss Ciana.” She squeezed my arm and gave me a


    dreamy look. “Unlike that ferocious Prince Theo.”


    Again, Theo let out a low growl, and this time, she heard him and jumped a little.


    Just like any good border guard should do….


    “Oh, no, Susan. Trust me. Thorn is not romantically interesting to me at all. I found him standing on the


    corner of the street in one of the little viges that I passed


    through.”


    “Really? What kind of man would pass on a finedy like you?” she asked. Of course, she wasn’t


    expecting me to answer, so she answered her own question. “Only the stupid ones! This Thorn must


    not be too bright.”


    I could sense the anger started to build within the prince next to me and I nced over my shoulder to


    see him ring at Susan.


    She leaned in closer to me. “Why is he looking at me that way?”


    “Oh, well,” I had toe up with something really quick, so I said without thinking, “He was begging on


    the streets. It’s


    really a sort of a sad story. You see, Thorn was… kicked in the head by a mule when he was younger.


    Now, well, he just doesn’t have any sense at all. So… he has to beg for food from the townsfolk.”


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    “That’s just terrible!” Susan said. “Poord. No wonder! Can he even hear what I’m saying?”


    “Yes, yes, he does hear well…” I tried to make Susan drop the topic. “Susan, let’s um… talk about…”


    But Susan continued, “He can hear, oh good. Then does he understand me? Why doesn’t he say


    anything…”


    “He picks up bits and pieces,” I said, nodding my head and stering what I hoped looked like a proud


    smile to my face. “But sometimes he gets confused and thinks people are making fun of him, even


    when they’re not.”


    “Poor, poor dear,” Susan said, shaking her head, and I thought I saw misty tears forming in her eyes.


    She was truly thest person who should’ve been on patrol out there. “Where are the guards?” I asked


    her, ignoring the daggers Theo was shooting at me. “I have no idea why you‘


    re out here.”


    Susan turned to face me, her mood sobering up as she began to speak. “Well, as you may know, your


    parents are


    still away. They haven’t returned, and it’s been a little while since anyone at the castle has heard from


    them.”


    Immediately, my heart lurched into my throat as my mind went wild with the possibilities of everything


    that might’ve happened to them. I couldn’t ask Susan her opinion on


    whether or not they were okay, though. She would have no


    idea, and it wasn’t worth it for me to hear all of her


    spections since they were likely to be unnerving.


    “So… in their absence, some strange things have been going on. Many of the guards and warriors are


    struggling. They feel like the orders they’ve been given are not in line with what your parents would


    want from them, but if they


    dare to protest, they are often arrested or thrown in prison by the ones who are willing to do the bidding


    of a tyrant.”


    She said thatst word with emphasis, and once again, I felt


    a wave of anxiety wash through me. I didn’t want to interrupt her to find out exactly what she was


    talking about, so I kept quiet.


    “So without the warriors out here on patrol, or at least not as many of them, then us ordinary citizens


    have been assigned these duties. You know me. I have a family to think of, so I can hardly go against


    the orders I’ve been given.” I could see the distress on her face.


    “Yes, of course,” I said, understanding what she meant.


    Susan was married and had three children, two boys and a girl. If she were thrown in prison, they


    wouldn’t have anyone to take care of them. “So are most people doing what they’re told, even though


    they don’t think it’s in line with what my parents would want?”


    “Yes, they are,” she said, and I could see the inner struggle she shared with the other citizens written


    on her face. “He’s almost as scary as the Dark Prince himself.”


    I braced myself for her answer as I swallowed hard and asked, “Who, Susan? Who is giving these


    orders?”


    She took a deep breath and looked around, as if she wanted to make sure that no one was listening in.


    She finally said one word, and I wasn’t surprised to hear the name considering the description she’d


    just given me. “Raymond.”


    I gave a sharp nod and said, “Right.”


    “Who’s that?” Theo asked coldly.


    “Ray. Mond.” Susan said loudly this time, overly articting for my “slow” servant. “He’s a mean man


    here.”


    I had to bite my lip to keep fromughing.


    As amused as I was at Prince Theo’s expression of utter


    displeasure, what Susan had just told me was not funny at


    all.


    “Why in the world would Raymond be giving everyone orders and disrupting the flow and processes in


    the territory?” I wasn’t asking her as much as I was thinking


    aloud.


    But Susan answered me anyway. Her response was only one word, but it sent chills up my spine.


    “Revolution.”