Sold as the Alpha King's Breeder
Chapter 668

Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder Chapter 668

Chapter 15: Why Can't You Just Listen?

*Soren*

I waited for Mila to go into her room and shut the door. I stayed there a few moments longer andwaited to see if she'd try to run right away.

Going to her door, I listened in until I heard the shower turn on. Nodding to myself, I headed to myown room.

I shut the door and it immediately opened again. Payne came in and slouched down in a nearbyarmchair.

“I caught up with her attacker. It took a while, but I got answers out of him,” he reported with aheavy sigh.

"What did you learn?” I questioned

“The people after Mila tonight were related to Norwind. They aren't just sending their own trackingparties after her. It seems like Norwind has reached out to a lot of bounty hunters, the undergroundkind, to hunt her,” he explained.

"And I guess the unsavory people she met in the woods are those bounty hunters?” I asked.

“Yes,” Payne nodded.

Norwind was one of the most powerful, wealthiest packs. I couldn't fathom why they were after anomega.

Mila was certainly pretty, there was no doubt about that.

However, I doubted Alpha Chandler would recruit underground bounty hunters and waste so manyresources just to come after a pretty face. He was smarter than that.

Besides, with his wealth, he could get whatever woman he wanted, and that meant he had his pickof beautiful women.

Whatever he wanted from Mila was something different than why he claimed to be buying youngwomen. It had nothing to do with loneliness or companionship, otherwise, he wouldn't be sofixated.

Whatever her value, it wasn't common knowledge.

Mila had said it herself, Saboreef had left her for dead. They didn’t care what happened to her. So,they obviously had no idea why Norwind was after Mila.

If they had, they wouldn't have let her poison herself. They would have demanded more moneyfrom Norwind and they would have kept a closer eye on her.

Saboreef had no idea what her importance was. If they did, a greedy, money-grubbing pack like thatwould have held onto her for longer. They would have created a bidding war among other packs todrive up her price.

Instead, they let her poison herself and then left her to die, or in her case escape.

To Saboreef, Mila was a worthless omega

That was a shame. It meant going to Saboreef and doing more digging would be useless. But itwould save time, now that I knew they were oblivious.

So, whatever Norwind wanted from Mila, they also wanted to keep it as a secret.

I wondered if revealing their desire for her would somehow be advantageous. It would make lifevery dangerous for her but it could create enough chaos that Norwind would be slowed down.

I shook my head.

That probably wasn't the best idea.

With Norwind after her, I couldn't help but wonder why Mila risked coming to Miltern. What was herrelationship with this pack? She'd come here as soon as she was strong enough to move.

There was something urgent here she desired

“Soren, I can hear you thinking. What's on your mind?” Payne asked, pulling me from my thoughts.“I was trying to figure out why Mila came here. What her connection is to Miltern,” I admitted.

It wasn't a coincidence. She wouldn't have rushed off if she didn’t have a destination in mind. Shehad a ring from a Miltern seer. Did that mean this was her home pack?

Based on our little interaction, it didn’t seem like she was planning to settle down here. It was morelike she came here on a mission.

Payne rubbed his cheek and sighed. “You're guess is as good as mine. We hardly know anythingabout her, even after all our investigating.”

“That's another curiosity,” I said, shaking my head.

"Agreed. Although, in regards to Miltern, there is something that... Well, didn't you notice howstrange this pack is?"

"What do you mean?” I asked, arching an eyebrow. I'd been more focused on replaceing Mila andkeeping her from running off again.

“In the woods, while I was chasing that guy, I saw a group of Miltern residents in the woods. I mean,I think they were Miltern. They looked ragged, insane, and... hopeless.

I nodded. “Mila mentioned them. She was trying to go back and help them.

"Was she? Help them from what?” Payne asked.

I shrugged. She hadn't told me anything about what she thought was wrong with them, just thatshe wanted to go after them.

"Well... anyway, I thought they were just some random outcasts. After dealing with the bountyhunter, I went to check them out and I checked out the town a little more,” Payne told me.

“And, what did you replace?" I pressed.

“I didn't notice it when we first arrived because we headed straight after Mila. But I checked out thetown to familiarize myself with my surroundings. People were acting very strangely, a lot like thegroup in the woods, more or less,” he reported.

Payne sighed and creased his brow. It seemed like he was having trouble thinking of the words todescribe what he'd seen and experienced.

“The whole pack... it is like there is no hope or happiness here. I tried to get information out of thembut they were very evasive. Most of them wouldn't talk to me and walked off. When I brought upthe group in the woods, they locked up tighter than a bank vault. Everything here is cold... and Idon't mean the temperature, the atmosphere,” he continued.

I nodded slowly. When Mila and I came to the hotel, I hadn't given it much thought. The man at thefront desk hadn't said anything or even spared us a glance. How did he know we even had rooms?Suddenly, I gasped and rubbed my throat. It wasn't just the Miltern pack. I could feel it deep in mychest, an overwhelming feeling of sadness and hopelessness.

"You're right. Ever since we've come here there's been a depressing cloud over everything, even us.It seems like it is slowly draining our energy and happiness away,” I agreed.

“No wonder not a lot of people live here, now. I thought Miltern pack was thriving but this... it is notwhat I expected,” Payne said.

“It's true. This is different from the last time I visited,” I admitted with a nod.

“Can you blame them? It is such a gloomy climate. There's fog all day and the sun barely breaksthrough. Then at night, it clears enough to see the sky, but everything is dark. I can imagine it ishard to replace happiness in a place like this,” Payne suggested.

"Hmm."

“Do you think it is something else?” he asked me.

“Before we entered Miltern packland, it was very sunny and clear. Almost as soon as we crossed intothe packland, a thick fog consumed us. It thinned throughout the day but it never fully dissipated,” Irecounted.

“It had done a good job blocking out the sunshine,” Payne recalled.

“Is it blocking out the happiness too? Is there... something wrong with the fog?” I queried.

Before Payne could answer, I held a hand up to silence him. Footsteps in the hall pricked my ears.They were light and quick. Whoever it was didn't want to be heard or caught.

I glanced at Payne and nodded to the door.

He nodded his understanding.

We went to the door and Payne yanked it open.

Down the hall, I saw the flash of a shadow.

Without hesitation or an order, Payne took off after the shadow.

I hesitated and looked around. There was a bouquet of fresh flowers resting in front of Mila'sbedroom door.

I quirked an eyebrow and bent down. Carefully, I peeled the wrapping back and looked over theflowers.

They were common daisies. Nothing special but nothing out of the ordinary, either. I didn't smellanything wrong with them. There were no poisons or toxins in the flowers. They were completelyharmless.

There was a small envelope tucked into the bouquet with Mila's name written on it.

Carefully, I pulled the envelope out and took the card out from inside. The note was handwritten inlovely, cursive handwriting.

“Tonight. Central Temple. Please Help!"

The flowers were safe, but someone was using them to reach out to Mila.

Not to mention, how many flower delivery services run at night?

I slid the card back in the envelope and replaced it in the bouquet. Carefully, I set the wrapping backin place. I didn't want it to look like the bouquet had been tampered with.

Whoever left the card was reaching out to Mila for a reason and it wasn't just an everyday, averagegift.

I returned to my room and shut the door. Eventually, Mila would come out and see the flowers.Kneeling down, I kept my eye pressed to the peephole and watched her door.

Mila was nothing if not a woman of secrets. What she'd told me about herself hardly elaborated onwhat I already knew. Though, since she'd heard what Payne learned about her, I suspected that wasthe purpose behind what she told me.

If Lee's reaction was anything to go off of, and it usually was when it came to people mysteriouslyimmune to poisons, she was something special.

Couple that with Alpha Chandler's desire to get his hands on her, I could only imagine what she washiding.

Whoever sent those flowers was leading her into something. Perhaps, something that only Milacould do based on her secrets.

I needed to know what it was about.

Ideally, she'd see the flowers and then come to me and we could figure this out together. I wasn'ttaking chances, though.

A few moments passed before Mila opened the door. She took one step into the hallway and theflowers crunched under her feet.

"Oh..." she whispered.

So, if it wasn't for the flowers, why had she stepped into the hall so secretively? Was she going tomake another run for it?

Well, that didn’t matter now. What was important was what she did next.

Her eyes widened as she bent down and picked up the flowers. I saw her read the little card. Sheturned on her heel and disappeared into her room, shutting the door swiftly.

Minutes later she came back out. She'd changed into something different, something a little sleekerthat would help her be stealthy.

She paused in the hallway and looked at my door.

I waited for her to close the distance and knock. After all I'd done to impress upon her that I was nother enemy and I would help her, now was her chance to show me that she believed me.

Sighing, 1 hung my head when Mila darted down the hall as quietly as possible.

Of course, she would think she could handle this herself and go off on her own.

If I wasn't so irritated, I might have been impressed with her independence and confidence.

As it was, she was just creating more headaches for me.

I was positive she was following up on what the card said. Otherwise, why would she change?Payne was still tracking the flower delivery person so I scrawled him a quick note and left it on thebed.

“Payne, Central Temple ASAP."

I slipped out of the room and followed after Mila.

Outside, the fog had started to thicken again. That probably meant dawn was coming.

I caught sight of Mila through the fog. She was disappearing quickly into the thick chowder. I triedto run after her but she was gone, swallowed up.

“f**k, why couldn't she just listen?”