Sold as the Alpha King's Breeder novel Chapter 856

Chapter 66 : Scattered Pieces

*Eliza*

Aman, wild and crazy, frantically waved the Cryptex around.

His eyes were bloodshot.

His lips moved so fast that they were a blur, but I couldn't hear what he was saying.

My heart hammered in my chest as I watched him freak out.I'd never seen that man before, but there was something about him that was familiar.

His hair...his eyes...the curve of his face....It reminded me of someone...someone....

"Eliza?"

Jared's voice rang in my head like a gong going off inside my skull.

Then it fell silent again and I was staring at the wild man with the Cryptex.

He threw it on the ground, spittle flying from his mouth in fury.

Raging, he dug through the drawers in the desk behind him.

He pulled out a hammer with a determined smirk.

Dropping to his knees in front of the Cryptex, he brought the hammer down heavily.I winced as though the hammer had struck me too.

The Cryptex flashed a blinding gold light and shattered.

The pieces scattered.

My vision faded in a swirl of heavy mist.

I was planted to the ground, my feet like tree roots holding me in place.

The mist swirled and parted, showing a new vision.

The man who smashed the Cryptex lay on the ground.

His body was bent in an impossible position, eyes staring dead ahead, blank and lifeless.

Blood dribbled from his mouth; his clothes were soaked in it and a puddle of thick crimson glistened around his immobile form.

My hands started to shake and I looked down at them.

Those weren't my hands! Unable to stop myself, I ran toward the man's body, dropping to my knees beside him.

Tears wet my cheeks.

They weren't my tears.

Someone else, another woman, was mourning this man's death, and I was along for the ride.She reached out to him, a fatal mistake.

Black ink tendrils burst from inside the dead man, clinging to my arms —her arms like sticky spider webbing.

The tentacles curled around her arm, burrowing through her skin and sinking deep inside.

"No! What's happening!"

My mouth moved, but the voice that came out wasn't my own.She clawed at her arms trying to pull the inky tentacles away.

Once they got hold, they vanished inside so quickly, leaving faint traces of tattoo marks behind.

Those tattoos-I recognized them.

They were the same tattoos that Jared had.

Groaning, I could feel the ink latch onto her blood, sticky and thick like plaque in the arteries.

Instantly, her body became sluggish and heavy.

A shadow coursed through her, creeping into every corner of her body.

"Stop it! No!"she wailed, her arms instantly going to her stomach.

It was just barely starting to show roundness.

The woman whose body I was witnessing everything through was pregnant.

Oh! Was this Jared's mother?! Was I seeing what had happened through her eyes? It made sense.

If the man who destroyed the Cryptex was Prince Justin, then once he died, the curse passed to his mate and then to Jared because she was pregnant with him.

My vision shifted again.

Still inside the same woman, she knelt in front of a smiling child with floppy hair.

It was easy to recognize him-King Alexander, or Prince Alexander as he was back then.

The woman I was trapped inside ran her fingers through Xander’s messy, floppy hair.

She leaned in and brushed the tip of her nose against his.

"You'll be home soon, right?" Alexander asked.

"Yes.You know I can't stay away long."

My heart sank.

I knew it was a lie and so did his mother.

I couldn't see her expression because I was witnessing everything through her eyes, but I could feel the heaviness in her heart as she said goodbye to her son...forever.

She kissed Xander on the forehead.

"I love you."

"Love you too."

Xander waved and hopped off into the gardens.

He hung his head a little as he went back to the garden, crushing dead flowers with his shoe.

It was a reflection of the recent loss of his father, but he was completely oblivious to the fact that he’d never see his mother again.

He was just a young child too young and innocent to realize what horrors existed in the world, and he was about to lose both parents.

Poor Xander.

Suddenly, my vision collapsed in a swirl of mist.

This time, the mist took longer to clear.

My limbs got really heavy like they were weighted down by bricks, pulling me onto the ground until I was lying down.

Pain shot through my arm and through my entire body.

My hand and arm felt swollen like I'd been stung by a million bees, throbbing, pounding, and swollen.

The rest of my body ached.

Groaning, I squinted my eyes closed.

When I opened them again, I was staring up into Jared's eyes.

Jared was looking down at me like I was something out of the depths of hell.I expected that.I'd seen what had happened to my hand before I was swallowed by total darkness and cast into a world of dreams, visions, and shadows.I glanced around, blinking to clear my vision as I gazed upon what looked to be a snug cave.