Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder by Alice Knightsky
Chapter 145 James Was After Rosalie
**Soren POV**
I had never thought I’d enjoy my days doing nothing, but staying in the cabin that Rosalie provided me, knowing I was in her territory and she’d come by once in a while to visit was a welcomed change in my life.
Looking around the cabin she had given me to use, I noticed a few details that could use some improvements. Since I had so much free time, I decided I’d take on several small home-improvement projects to make this place my own.
There still were many things I needed to figure out and many people I would need to face eventually, like my uncle, like Ethan, but for now, I was happy with staying in a forgotten corner in the far north.
When I first walked in, I was in shock over the disarray, but I could see she was trying to give me something of my own.
Moving around the cabin, I slid off my jacket, and laid it on the small sofa. I’d asked for some paint with more contemporary colors. If I was going to stay here for a while, then I would see to it that this place was fixed up, and changing the color theme was step one.
‘Boss, are you around?’ Thomas’ voice rang through my mind, startling me for a moment.
‘Thomas, you b’stard!’ I scolded him. I had wanted to do so, but he was rarely awake ever since Rosalie brought him back here. According to Rosalie and Seraphine, Thomas was wounded way worse than me.
I had checked on him a few times, but he wasn’t conscious. The doctor said it would take time. I knew he had disobeyed my orders so that he could save me, I appreciated that, so I couldn’t really be angry at him. After all, he didn’t want to run away on his own.
‘How are you feeling?’ I asked.
‘I’m fine now. Whatever they used on me was really effective. Most of my external wounds are healed. It just took me a bit to wake up,’ he told me, his voice sounding strong despite his recent injuries.
‘Then go back to sleep, you i***t!’ I chided. I couldn’t imagine he had anything important to tell me since he’d been completely unconscious for so long.
‘Boss, I’ve been awake and up and about for a couple days now. However, I heard about your situation and figured I’d better not act recklessly. That’s why I didn’t mind link you. It seems like you’re in a fairly good mood though?’ he asked me. Was he being sarcastic? Did I seem like I was in a good mood?
‘Shut up. If you didn’t need me for two days, what do you need me for now?’ I rolled my eyes, even though he couldn’t see it.
‘Come on, boss. Just because I guessed right, you don’t need to dismiss me. I a*s*sume you don’t need me to get you out of where you are?’
‘No, I don’t need rescuing,’ I chuckled internally. ‘What’s up?’ I asked him in a firm tone.
‘Actually, I do have news for you. I heard from Damian that the queen miscarried her baby.’
I let that sink in for a moment and tried to figure out why he was telling me this. The queen losing the child didn’t come as a shock to me. I had planned that from the very beginning.
Based on my intel, the queen was poisoned many years back. When they finally figured out that it was the poison that caused her to lose her fertility, she had been looking frantically for the antidote through the years.
When Damian told me that, I happened to have just found out about Rosalie’s bloodline. I was able to obtain some of her blood and sent it over to Damian. Her blood had such healing power that it did work as an antidote, and the queen was able to conceive.
However, both the king and the queen were no longer young. It was highly unlikely that they would actually be able to produce a healthy heir any more. Especially since the queen suffered from the poison for so many years; her body was no longer suitable for carrying babies.
That meant… if they were to try again, they would continuously need Rosalie’s blood to strengthen the queen’s physical condition in order to sustain the entire pregnancy. However, I never revealed to anyone where the blood came from. As far as I knew, even Damian didn’t know the true source of the blood.
I smirked, ‘What does that have to do with me?’ He couldn’t be telling me this just because he expected me to feel sorry for the royals.
‘Boss, it doesn’t have anything to do with you. But you may want to warn Rosalie because James seemed to have figured out the source of the blood.’
My eyes widened, and my heart stopped beating for a moment. I knew sooner or later, this would no longer be a secret, and that was what I had told Rosalie earlier, however, I didn’t expect it to be so soon!
‘F*ck! How much time do we have?’ I asked, frantically. The implications of this situation could be astronomical.
‘Not much. That’s why I reached out. McGintry was the one who informed me. They’ve spotted James’s secret agents around the northern borders. They are coming for her!’ Thomas explained, making my breath catch in my throat.
If James was going to get her, they would need her alive, but there was no telling what James probably had going through his mind right now after losing that child. Even if they took her and planned to keep her as a prisoner and use her blood, that would be a hopeless situation for Rosalie. I couldn’t let that happen.
But James was a desperate man, and oftentimes, desperate men went to great lengths to get what they wanted. ‘I will deal with it. You stay safe and lie low,’ I ordered. ‘Thanks, man.’
‘Don’t mention it. You have no idea how much I’d rather hand her over. But the war is over, and I don’t like owing a lady the favor of saving my a*s*s.’
I let out a chuckle at Thomas’s ridiculous statement, but the situation was quite serious, and I needed to act right away.
Severing the mind link, I ran towards the front door of the cabin and burst out of it. My movements were not going unnoticed by the guards who shouted at me to stop before I found myself surrounded.
“Where do you think you are going?” one warrior growled, his eyes firmly upon me as if he wanted to rip out my throat.
“I need to see Her Majesty. It’s an emergency,” I replied, trying to make them see reason. They were wasting time, and we’d already lost too much of it.
“You don’t deserve to be anywhere near our queen. You should have been executed the moment we found you, but the queen’s kindness is the only thing that saved you,” the other guard, a man at least a foot taller than me with a good twenty more pounds of muscle, gritted out.
Irritation filled me at hearing the man’s words. Perhaps he was right, but at this point in time, I didn’t have time to deal with his crap. I had to find Rosalie before it was too late.
“Move or I will remove you,” I growled in frustration, narrowing my eyes at them and mentally preparing to shift.
“Enough!” a woman’s voice called out, and as the men looked back, I saw a woman in white-robed walking towards me with an irritated glint in her eyes. “Leave us,” she ordered, and I watched as the guards bowed and walked away.
I knew her. The high priestess Cerina.
Closing the distance between us, I said, “I have to find Rosalie. It’s important.”
“No, you don’t get to make demands, Soren,” she replied, causing me to roll my eyes. She stopped in front of me and folded her arms, a determined look on her face.
“She is in danger,” I snapped.
Cerina stared at me for a moment with suspicion, as if she wasn’t sure I was telling the truth. Finally, she said, “She isn’t here. She just left a short while ago for the front.”
Fear crawled through me upon hearing her words. If Rosalie was out there, that meant she was falling prey into a trap that was set for her. She was in more danger than she could possibly imagine.
“We have to call her back!” I yelled, running a hand through my hair in frustration.
“What makes you think she is in danger?” Cerina asked, narrowing her eyes.
“King James’s queen lost her baby,” I frantically explained. “He is out searching for Rosalie now, intending to use all of her blood to cure his wife.”
Her eyes widened in shock as her lips parted. “Oh, my goodness. D*mn it Soren. What have you done?!”
I didn’t have time to stand there while she chastised me. “We have to get to her before they do.” “How do we know you’re telling us the truth, and you aren’t working with James?”
I changed my tone, becoming more apologetic. “Look, I’m not trying to cause problems. I know I messed up with Rosalie before, but I am trying to fix that honestly. I am not trying to deceive anyone. I just want her to be safe.” The confession left my lips, and as I let it sink in, my heart swelled.
I was finally doing something that was for someone else. I realized what was important, and it actually felt… good.
“If you won’t help me protect your queen, then I will do it myself. Let me pass.” I lifted my chin in defiance and awaited their decision.
She stared at me for a moment before looking at her guards. “I’ll send men to confirm, but Soren, you’d better stay.”
“There’s no f*uc*king time. Do you not understand?!” I raised my voice, and seeing that there was no way I could persuade her peacefully, I went ahead and shifted. She was taken a little aback at first, but the warriors immediately shifted as well, about to subdue me by force.
“Ooohoooo!” I howled, readying myself for the fight.
However, Cerina raised her hand to stop the warriors. “Let him go, but follow him,” she said. “Soren, please do not let her down again.”
I nodded my wolf head, and the woman gestured for the guards to allow me to leave the grounds.
If Rosalie got hurt because of my foolishness, I would never be able to forgive myself.