Sold as the Alpha King's Breeder novel Chapter 369

Chapter 27 Prince Theo, Be My Servant

Jake drove us to my pack lands. The ride was almost ten hours, and Theo and I spent most of the trip in relative silence. The good thing was, the car used to transport royals was spacious enough for the two of us to maintain a comfortable distance from each other.

To not draw any unwanted attention, we were dropped off at the border of our pack lands, 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 palace for people to know he wasn’t there.

At the moment, he was wearing a pair of nice gray slacks and a blue button-down shirt that made him look almost like a regular person-

An incredibly handsome regular person with perfectly straight teeth, hair that was never out of place, 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 that last word like it was an obscenity, a word his mouth couldn't articulate.

"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 the land."

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 could come up with. We don't have much time; the village 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 me laugh.

"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 almost comical.

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

"Miss Ciana!" she exclaimed, 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 palace. 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.