Sold AS The alpha King's Breeder

Sold As The Alpha King’s Breeder Chapter 389

Chapter 47 The Wedding Ceremony

The wedding was moving forward far too fast. I didn’t like it, but it had to happen.

I was assigned to do one last round of security checks in the wedding venue before the wedding party, and the guests were coming in when I saw Sophia. She was standing up by the altar where the ceremony would be held, and she had something in her hands, something small and delicate.

“Put it down!” I commanded.

Immediately, she set the ring that she had been holding back on the pedestal where it had been sitting. She seemed to have something else in her hands, too, but she hid it from me, and I didn’t have a lot of patience for her bullshit right then.

“What are you doing here?”

She scoffed, “What’s the big deal? He has already chosen her and I’ve accepted that fact. Are you saying that I can’t even take a look at the ring? It was supposed to be put on me!”

“You wish!” Brook arrived behind me and said with scorn, “That isn’t just any ring! Your Majesty chose this ring as some- thing special just for her. You will never, ever have any chance to wear it, no matter what!”

I knew how the ceremony worked. The couple would choose something special as a token of their love. This ring was the first real gift that the king gave to his mistress when

he confessed his affection to her, and now it will solidify their promise to stay together.

It wasn’t just any ordinary wedding ring.

“Stay out of it, you lowly servants!” Sophia shouted at us. “You have no idea what you’re talking about! He loves me, not that stupid bitch.”

Just then, the high priest came out. Although Sophia swore and grumbled, she did move to the back corner of the room. Seeing that the ridiculous woman no longer posted a threat, Brook and I also backed away.

I kept an eye on Sophia; her hands were in her pockets. It seemed strange that she’d wear a gown with pockets, but she was. Everything about her was peculiar. She shouldn’t have even been there. But the guests started to enter the venue

and I didn’t want to cause a scene.

I was close enough. If she dared to cause trouble, I’d be able to take control of her immediately.

Warren appeared next to the high priest. My brother had always been a good-looking guy, and today, he looked even more regal and outstanding. Would Ciana really fall in love with that handsome face? I shook my head and forced myself to focus back on the security of the wedding instead.

The music started and there she was, walking gracefully

toward the altar.

I didn’t notice how beautiful Ciana looked in her wedding gown as she stood at the front of the chapel, next to my brother. I refused to notice how that flowing white gown hugged her in all of the right places and made her legs look so

long while showing off her slender waist.

It didn’t register in my mind that her hair was curled and framing her face, that she was smiling, that her eyes were sparkling, or how her lips looked like luscious red rubies.

No, I refused to notice any of those things….

To distract myself, I switched my attention to the overall security and Sophia.

Why was that woman messing with the ring? Just to take a look at it? What kind of woman would want to admire the token of triumph of her love rival? She must have had other motivations, but what could they be?

The priest had them both repeat some sentences. I wasn’t paying close attention until I heard Warren ask Ciana, “May I have your wrist?”

Ciana looked at him a bit confused.

There was a crooked grin on his handsome face as he looked down at her and said, “I want you to have this back.”

Warren pulled out the bracelet, the one that Ciana had given to me all of those years ago in the woods. Her face lit up when she saw it. Clearly, that bracelet meant a lot to her, and she thought that it was a special memento between the two of them.

Now I was a bit regretful that I hadn’t told her the truth when I had the chance.

“Marvelous! Now, let us present to the Moon Goddess your token of love,” the priest said, picking the ring up.

Not far away from me, I heard Sophia’s scoffs again. I turned to look at her and saw that she had something in her hand. It looked fairly small and made of glass. I thought I saw a green liquid inside of it. She was admiring the object, but as soon as she saw me looking at her, she slipped it back into her pocket.

Turning back around to see Warren holding Ciana’s hand and looking at her lovingly, I thought about the size and weight of that ring. I’d seen something like it before. I won- dered if….

“King Warren, slide this ring onto Miss Ciana’s finger so that we know you promise your love to her,” the high priest was saying in his authoritative voice. This text is © NôvelDrama/.Org.

Then, I realized what Sophia had done. How could she stoop so low? It seemed she was somehow even more evil in

this world than in the real one!

I wasn’t sure what would happen in the real world if any of us ended up dying here. It was only our consciousnesses, our souls, so to speak, that were pulled into this world. If we did die in this realm, would we wake up in the real world like we would wake up from nightmares, or would we get stuck here forever and our body would slowly fade away? I didn’t know, so I couldn’t take the risk.

“Wait!” I shouted. “Don’t do it!”

Brook and Jake both tried to grab me.

“What are you doing?” Jake asked. “Have you lost your mind?”

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“Stop it, right now!” Brook whisper-shouted.

I ignored both of them. This was important.

Warren had the ring in one hand and was holding Ciana’s outstretched fingers with his other hand when I pushed my way through to them. Both of them turned to look at me as I shot up to the front.

“You can’t put that on her.” I shouted as I reached them.

“Theo!” Ciana whispered, pulling my arm. “What are you doing? This is what we want to happen, remember?”

“I know the significance, but you have to believe me. If you die… you might die!”

“What does that mean?” Warren asked, but we both ig-

nored him.

Even though she clearly didn’t understand what I was do- ing, Ciana’s eyes were wide now, and I could tell that she be- lieved me.

“How dare a simple guard interfere with the royal wed- ding?” Warren pushed me away from Ciana, and the royal guards started to gather around me, protecting the king.

“The ring, it’s been tampered with-”

“Oh really?” Warren said. “Or you are just causing a scene so that you can distract us? I know you’ve been in love with Ciana. I let it be because you’ve been protecting her. But you’ re just a guard and you’ll never be able to give her what I’m able to…”

“That’s not at all it. The ring is dangerous! Sophia was touching it, and I’m certain it’s been poisoned!”

“What?”

Seeing that Warren had put down the ring, I was a bit re- lieved that at least there was no immediate danger to Ciana, so I also added something I had wanted to say, “And unlike you, I won’t keep breaking my own promises, and maybe I’m more qualified to be the one who she spends the rest of her life with!”

Warren’s eyes bulged, and he didn’t know what to say for

a moment.

The rest of the royal guards gathered around me. But be- fore they could pull me away, I caught Sophia running up to the front.

She grabbed the ring and started forcing it on Ciana’s fin- ger!

“Sophia!!” Warren roared and I shifted immediately, shook off the guards around me, and reached Ciana just in time to use my paw to smack the ring off her hand.

The ring fell on the floor, revealing a small needle that was built into it that was set to trigger when it was put on, inject- ing poison into the wearer.

Warren came at Sophia, too, and as she turned, I saw a flash of silver as a knife came flying at Ciana, but it was caught in Warren’s arm instead. He screeched, but it only made him angrier. Between the two of us, we managed to get the knife out of her hand. Sophia was screaming as the guards came in to pull her away.

“Are you all right?” Warren went to Ciana, grasping his bleeding arm with one hand. Blood spurted between his fin-

gers, coating his suit jacket as it trickled all the way down to his hand. But clearly, he was more concerned about her than himself at the moment.

“I’m fine. It’s just a little scratch on my hand,” Ciana said, raiding her palm to show him. “How are you?” I could see that she was genuinely concerned about him.

I tried to ignore the pain that radiated through my chest as I saw her gazing into his eyes.

As Warren reached for her, his red blood dripped down her arm and her white gown.

“Don’t worry about me,” he insisted. “I’ll be alright. Despite all of this, I know more than ever that I want to marry you. I love you so much. No one else would continue to stand be- side me when something so devastating has happened.” He took her hand in his, even though it was bleeding.

“But… we can’t finish the ceremony without the ring… It’s the token…” Ciana’s forehead knit together.

Our gaze all landed on the ring, which was lying quietly on the floor. As Warren was hesitating about whether he should pick it up again, some green liquid leaked out from the nee- dle, and the ring was quickly dissolved-Sophia must’ve just filled it with whatever poisonous and corrosive green liquid it was in that vial!

“No-!” Ciana cried, reaching out to the ring.

“It’s all right, darling!” Warren hugged her tightly to hold her back and urged, “I don’t need it on your finger to take you as mine. We’ll come up with another token of our love, and I’ll buy you any ring that you want in the world….”

Ciana dropped on her bottom, and turned to look at me as she murmured, “What shall we do now?”

I was still in my wolf form, so all I could do was shake my head. I saw her mood darken, and her eyes began to glisten with unshed tears.

There was extreme disappointment in her eyes and we both realized at the same time that, now that the ring was de- stroyed, she wouldn’t be able to complete the ceremony with Warren.

And without marrying Warren… we’d failed the task we’d been sent there for. That meant the crystal couldn’t be cleansed or activated and we wouldn’t be able to use it to

create a false blood moon!

Out of nowhere, I began to feel very strange. My breath caught in my throat, my heart began to pound in my chest. Meanwhile, my head started to feel like it was being squeezed by a vice.

The world around us began to spin.

I knew this disorienting feeling from when we were first pulled in there, and I hated it. I closed my eyes, hoping the world would stop spinning soon.

What did this mean? Now that we had failed the quest, would we go back home, or would the crystal send us some- where else?

Shit! We never should have gotten involved in all of this to begin with!