Mated to the Alpha: Sold to the King novel Chapter 246

Chapter 246: 0246

Kaelen POV

"Lorelei!"

My voice roared through the room, shaking the walls and cutting her off mid-sentence.

My chest rose and fell heavily as I stared down at her, unable to believe what I had just heard. Raw hurt flashed across my face before I could hide it because how could she even think I would want that?

"Can you really stand the thought of me sleeping with other women?" I demanded, my voice cracking under the weight of everything I was feeling. "Would you really be okay with me fucking another woman right now? Huh?"

She hiccupped through her sobs, her body still trembling as she struggled to look at me. "I... I just want you to be happy."

"Who the fuck says I’m not happy?" The words came out before I could stop them, sharper than I intended.

Yes, hearing that she wasn’t carrying my child had hurt. I couldn’t pretend it hadn’t. I had wanted this. I had imagined what it would be like to hold our child in my arms, and finding out we weren’t going to have that yet had left a painful emptiness inside me.

But hearing Lorelei suggest that I should go and be with another woman hurt in a completely different way.

It made me wonder how little she understood about what she meant to me.

"How can you even say something like that?" I asked, my voice shaking as she continued to cry in front of me. "How can you look me in the eyes and ask me to sleep with someone else?"

My hands tightened around her shoulders, not wanting to hurt her but needing her to understand just how much her words had cut me.

"You know my condition. You know I can’t even stand being around other women, let alone have them touch me. And even if that wasn’t a problem, how could I sleep with someone I don’t love?"

At that, she shook her head weakly, still trying to make sense of it from her own perspective. "You... you don’t have to love her," she whispered. "You can just get her pregnant. That’s all. It doesn’t have to mean anything."

Hearing her say that only made the pain inside my chest twist tighter until it became anger.

"I don’t want to sleep with another woman, for fuck’s sake, Lorelei!" I growled, my hands sliding from her shoulders to her arms as I held onto her. "You are supposed to be the mother of my children. That was what we talked about. What we planned together."

My voice faltered as I looked into her tear-filled eyes, the anger slowly giving way to something much more painful.

"So why would you ask me to be with someone else?" I asked, my voice dropping. "Why would you ever think I’d want that when I have you?" 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

My voice cracked at the end, and I hated how vulnerable I sounded, but I couldn’t stop the words from pouring out. They were coming from a fear I had carried for far longer than I wanted to admit, one that had been buried so deeply that I hadn’t even realized how much power it still had over me.

"Just why?" I demanded, searching her tear-streaked face for an answer I wasn’t sure I was ready to hear. "Would you really be okay with it? Huh? Because I know I can’t even stand the thought of you looking at another man, so why is it so easy for you to ask me to be with someone else?"

For a second, an ugly thought slipped into my mind before I could push it away.

Maybe she didn’t love me the way she claimed she did. Maybe I didn’t mean as much to her as I thought I did. Because if she truly loved me, how could she be willing to share me so easily?

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