Sold as the Alpha King's Breeder novel Chapter 454

Chapter 112: Do You Love Me?

*Ciana*

Theo was moved to his room and I went with him. Dottie, the healer, was summoned to check him over. I stood back and watched as she did her job.

She sighed a few times. My heart raced every time and I held my breath.

"Prince Theo is fine," she said. "He just needs a little time to recover."

"Are you sure that he is going to be okay?" I wanted to be assured.

"Yes, Miss. If you're worried, stay with him. You can look after him," she suggested..

"Yeah, I'll do that." I went to the bedside and tucked the covers closer to Theo. Slowly, I smoothed some wrinkles out of his comforter.

He looked peaceful, like he was just asleep instead of unconscious. There was a slight thinness to his face, probably from being starved in the dungeons.

Nita stood at his bedside, opposite of me. She looked at Theo' s sleeping face with a strange expression of mixed emotions.

"He's going to be okay, Lady Nita," Dottje smiled at Theo's mother, but looked puzzled-relieved, but puzzled.

"You can just call me Nita. The king's dead, and I'm no longer a royal concubine."

Dottie nodded. "It was a miracle! He didn't kill you. Actually, you look... better than you did a few hours ago. What a relief!"

"I'm not sure what happened but I suddenly felt a lot of my strength return." Nita then absently lifted her eyes to me. "But there is a more urgent matter to discuss."

Why was she looking at me like that?

"You're immune to Theo's powers. Why?" she asked, fixing me with a hardened, suspicious stare.

I shook my head. Being immune to Theo's power was as much a shock to me as everyone else. At that point, I didn't even think too much. All I knew was that I had to do something so that Theo wouldn't kill his mother.

He'd already suffered too much from Maggie and Warren.

Based on what Jake said, there had been no other survivors when Theo's power was activated in the past. Now that things calmed down, I had the chance to sort through the details of the past incidents.

Perhaps the reason Theo's deadly impact skipped Warren was because I happened to be there to break their physical connection.

As for why it didn't impact me... I shrugged at Nita. "I don't know. Maybe it is just fate."

Nita murmured, as if she was talking to herself. "As far as I know, even the mates of the Dark Kings weren't immune to this power. That was why the descendants of the Dark Kings had to be really careful when they were around their loved ones."

I grinned, "Whatever it is, it's a good thing, right? I'm just glad I was able to help!"

Nita looked at me for a long moment, and her sharp look softened. She turned on her heel and walked towards the door. "It seems like Theo is in good hands. I'll come back once he is awake."

"Don't worry, we'll let you know as soon as he is up!"

Nita walked out of the room with a gentle sigh, but she didn't say anything else.

I stayed with Theo most of the day. His breathing was steady and his color was returning. Dottie had left a few things that would help revitalize him once he woke up. I wasn't worried about him anymore. He was strong and I knew he'd pull through.

When I left his room to grab myself a snack, the palace was in complete chaos. I'd never seen so many people running around! It was like no one knew where they were supposed to be or what they were supposed to be doing.

I dodged around a frantic servant and dashed away from a couple of well-dressed maids that were urgently discussing Warren and Theo's condition in rapid, short sentences.

A familiar face popped out in the crowd and I went over.

"Jake, what is going on? Why is everything..." I got cut off by a

soldier bustling by as he bumped into my shoulder.

Grunting, I rubbed my arm.

"Ciana, you should be back with Theo. He needs you more," Jake said, dismissively. He looked like a rubber band pulled to the breaking point.

"I can help," I said.

Jake shook his head. "Sebastian is dead. Warren and Theo are both unconscious. People are panicking. They have no idea what is going on and there is a lot of fear about who is going to become the next ruler, especially with both princes incapacitated."

"I see," I muttered.

Unfortunately, there wasn't anything I could do to help. I wasn't a member of the royal family. Jake was Theo's Beta and he was having a hard enough time keeping things under control. We'd need a miracle to get the palace organized now.

"Jake, Beta Jake," Sophia called down the corridor.

Jake groaned and let out a long, exasperated sigh. "Yes, Miss Chambers?"

Dottie was right behind her with an unusually large smile on her face.

"Warren is awake," Sophia panted. She tried and failed to hide her smile. "He's awake!"

"What? How?" I blurted out, knowing that Warren couldn't wake up on his own.

"We don't know. He's still a little confused. But a lot of the other guards that Sebastian attacked have woken up as well. They are all disoriented," Sophia said.

"Dottie, is that true?" Jake asked.

"It is. I've examined them all and they are all well on their way to recovery," she said, nodding.

"That's... the best news I've gotten all day," Jake said, sighing again. Only this time, it was a sigh of relief.

"I don't understand. I thought once a life essence was taken, it had to be replaced, otherwise, the person would never wake up," I said, referencing Dottie's explanation of Warren's condition.

"That is what I thought, as well," Dottie admitted, her smile fading.

"I don't care what is going on. Warren is awake, and I need to be by his side." Sophia turned on her heel and ran down the hall.

My thoughts went to Nita. I was still amazed at how fast she'd recovered. She'd been unconscious and seriously aged, but just now, she looked a lot younger and her strength had returned.

The same thing was happening to Warren and the other guards.

"Perhaps it is time to get answers. There is one person that knew Sebastian's secrets better than anyone," Jake suggested.

"Xavier!" I jumped in.

The three of us went to a private infirmary room where Dottie had set Xavier up. He was pretty badly wounded but he was healing quickly.

Jake went right over to Xavier's bedside and slammed his hand down on the bedside table. "Xavier, stop pretending to be asleep!"

Xavier yelped and "woke" up. He sat bolt upright and clutched his side where he was covered in bandages. Xavier lifted wide, scared eyes to Jake. Then, his eyes darted to me and Dottie.

"Please, please don't hurt me. Prince Theo said he would spare me."

"When Theo wakes up, he will be the one to determine whether you will live or die. We are interested in something else," Jake explained.

"No, please, just let me go. Tell Prince Theo I escaped. Or tell him I died. I just want to go back to my home pack and live out the rest of my life," he begged, looking at us with frantic eyes.