Sold as the Alpha King's Breeder novel Chapter 657

Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder Chapter 657

Chapter 4: Rich and Powerful, and Dangerous

Ashley and Lee cared for the girl for a few days but it didn’t seem like her condition was changing. Lee mentioned it could be dangerous to move her while she was still unconscious, so I left her in my room and I moved to a room down the hall.

So far, she hadn’t woken up and Payne hadn’t reported back with any information about her.

We all gathered together for dinner in the bar most nights. Unlike the night the girl arrived, we weren’t always partying and drinking. I sometimes thought of it as a community meal because these shifters were as close to a community or a pack as I had.

I sat at the head of the table.

“Has anyone heard from Payne?” I asked as I finished off a glass of wine.

My men hurried to swallow whatever they were devouring to offer answers.

“Last I heard, he was heading east.”

“He hasn’t checked in for a few days.”

“He didn’t have anything new.”

I nodded and they all went back to their voracious eating. Unlike most of them, I’d been raised in a family that had strict table manner requirements and I had been hating it. It was refreshing to be around those who didn’t care what they looked like while eating, and just simply appreciate the enjoyment food would bring.

Three days and no one had heard anything new from Payne.

I poured myself another glass of wine and swirled it slowly around in the glass.

Usually, when Payne set out to find information on someone, he got answers very quickly. Of course, he usually had more to go on than a first name, which we discovered when going through her things.

Mila.

Sighing, I finished the wine and headed upstairs.

Someone so uniquely beautiful had to be known. She was the kind of girl that turned heads when she walked into a room and drew stares from across the street when she passed by. Someone had to have seen her and know something about her.

I walked past the door to my room. It was closed so the girl could rest undisturbed. One door down was where I would stay temporarily.

When I pulled my shirt off to change for bed, my elbow knocked a vase on a table. I grabbed it and set it upright.

“Ugh…”

This room was a lot smaller than mine. I wondered how much longer I’d have to stay here.

Sighing, I threw on a cotton shirt and a pair of sweats for bed. As irritating as it was to be put out of my own room, at least I was being inconvenienced to save a young woman’s life.

Not that I was some sort of a selfless saint, but the fact that someone had poisoned her and drugged her just didn’t sit well with me. On top of that, intentionally or not, I took her first time. Just for that reason alone, I owe her to at least nurture her back to a somewhat healthy state.

I closed my eyes, but snapped them open again. f**k, I couldn’t get the image of her out of my head—especially when she had her back to me, how much she looked like Rosalie.

Knock. Knock.

“Soren, are you in there?” Lee called through the door.

I unlocked the door and stepped back to allow Lee inside. He immediately closed the door behind him. Whatever he had to say was private.

“I’m not disturbing you, am I?”

I shook my head firmly. “You have news of her condition, I assume?”

“Yes. And it is rather… strange. The poison in her system is actually breaking down and dissolving.”

I arched an eyebrow. “Isn’t that what the medicines are for?”

“Not exactly. This is a very strong poison and what I gave her were not exactly antidotes. The medicines may hold it at bay and help her body to gain strength, but it wasn’t supposed to break down the poison,” he explained.

Lee seemed unusually perturbed by her reaction to the meds. I knew as much about healing as I did this strange girl.

“She seems to have some kind of natural immunity to the poison, which is probably why it didn’t kill her immediately. But… that is incredibly rare,” Lee said with a bewildered shrug.

“You think the poison was meant to kill her?”

“Soren, this isn’t a garden variety poison. The ingredients themselves aren’t easy to come by. Only someone with incredible power or wealth could get their hands on it and you know what that means,” he said, shrugging again.

“This poison is rich and powerful, and dangerous,” I muttered.

Lee nodded in confirmation. “But it is like the girl has some protective force within her, keeping her safe from harm. At least, safe from the poison. Anyone else who took that high of a dose would be dead… except…”