Sold as the Alpha King's Breeder novel Chapter 383

Chapter 41 Plan B It Is!

Frustrated with the entire situation with Warren and

Sophia, and with my stomach aching from eating so much. cake, I headed out into the hallway, thinking I would have to come up with another plan. I should have known that simply baking a cake wouldn’t be enough to get to the man‘ s heart. After all, as a king, he had a ton of chefs to do that.

Almost the second I walked out into the hallway, Theo was there waiting for me, an expectant look on his face. “Well?” he asked me in a low whisper. “How did it go?”

“Great,” I told him. “The king and I are getting married right this very moment.”

He narrowed his eyes at me. “Your face said something else.”

“Okay, I failed,” I admitted, but I must have looked very upset.

That was why Theo gave me a somewhat sympathetic look. He led me around the corner where we’d be less likely to be overheard. “What happened?”

“First of all, your brother is the king.”

“Okay, then?”

“Sophia is the one he is planning to marry.”

“Oh, right.” Prince Theo nodded like it didn’t surprise him at all.

My eyes bulged slightly as I considered that response. “You‘ re not surprised that the king would rather marry Sophia than me? What? Do you think she’s prettier than me? Smarter? Sweeter?”

“I didn’t say any of that, Ciana,” he said, huffing a little. “Focus.”

I shook my head to clear it. “Fine, so we are going to have to come up with something else because he seems pretty set on the fact that she is the woman for him.”

“What did you do exactly to change his mind?” Theo asked.

“What could I do? He didn’t even want to talk to me other than telling me he was going to marry Sophia.”

“And the cake didn’t help?”

“Yes, it did,” I said, watching Theo raise an eyebrow while I completed my sentence angrily, “It helped to fill my stomach!”

“You ate the cake?”

I thought Theo would be upset, but after only a quick. pause, he chuckled lightly. For some reason, I felt he’d been in a fairly good mood lately. “All right, Ciana, what’s going on? You seem way more upset than you should.”

“Do I?”

He nodded. As his intense dark gaze fell on me, all of a sudden, I just felt so aggrieved that I needed to vent. “She even talked him into giving her a special bracelet!”

Theo arched an eyebrow in confusion. “What bracelet?”

I was in no mood to explain to him my childhood encounter with Warren, but at that moment, I saw that Sophia had turned the corner, walking toward us.

“Look at you. How pathetic!” Of course she would humiliate me whenever she got a chance to. She raised her slender arm and on her wrist was my special bracelet.

“It fits my skin tone really well, don’t you think?”

“No need to rub it in my face,” I snapped back. “And I won’t give up yet. We shall see who laughs until the end.”

Sophia sneered, “Indeed, we shall see.”

After she walked away, I turned around and shrugged.

“Well, you asked about the bracelet, and she just showed you.”

“You said Warren gave it to her?” Theo asked, seeking clarification, and I nodded.

I couldn’t quite read Theo’s expression, he seemed really shocked. But why?

He mumbled, “How did he even get it…”

“What did you say?” I asked him, confused.

“Nothing. It doesn’t matter.” He focused back on me. “Based on what you said, it sounds to me we should move on to plan B.”

It wasn’t my preferred way of handling this situation, but at this point, I needed to be open–minded.

“What do you have in mind?” I asked, folding my arms.

“He’s in love with Sophia in this illusional world?”

I nodded. “It definitely appears to.”

“Very well. Then we’ll make him trade her life for marrying you.” He made the statement like it was not a big deal.

“How do we do that?”

“It’s simple. We’ll find a way to take her prisoner, hold her for ransom, and before we release her, he’ll be forced to marry you. If the king refuses to marry you, we will kill her.”

“You and your killing people,” I said, shaking my head.

“Do you have a better idea?”

I did not. I couldn’t think of anything better, so after a few moments, I said, “No. Fine. Okay. We’ll do it your way.”

I almost thought he was smiling, but whatever that expression was, it faded away quickly enough.

“So… when do we do this?” I asked him, hoping he had already worked the plan out. He seemed to be very set on this plan, after all, so surely he had some ideas.