Sold as the Alpha King's Breeder
Chapter 1064 - 127 : The Vow

Chapter 1064: Chapter 127 : The Vow

*Alternate Sasha*

“We’ll have the palace all to ourselves,” Stone went on, his eyes sparkling with crazy glee. “We can have as many children as we want.”

“That sounds great,” I said, setting the table for us.

Stone had been rather doting the first couple of days, but now he expected me to wait on him like he was already my king.

It made me feel a lot less bad about what I was about to do... not that I felt more than a twinge of guilt anyway.

Stone had started having big thugs hang around, and I wasn’t sure if that was to protect me or to keep me inside. At any rate, the big thugs came with quite a few subduing measures, including ketamine.

All I had to do to get some was to hang out with them for a while and chat with them, make them feel I was completely comfortable with them and the plan, just like with Stone.

A few drinking games that I refereed as I couldn’t drink got me the chance to pocket a vial. They had enough of the stuff that it wasn’t missed, which was a relief.

As I was mixing Stone’s before-dinner martini like I was June Cleaver, Stone kept going on and on about the kind of life we were going to have. It wasn’t exactly inspiring, but I kept agreeing with a smile while I tapped the white ketamine powder into the martini glass, topping it off with an olive spear.

“You’re getting really good at this,” Stone said when I handed it to him.

I just smiled sweetly. “Anything for you, dear.”

“That’s the spirit. That’s what’s going to make you a better wife than that other Sasha. You’re a thousand times better than her,” Stone complimented me.

He took several gulps of his drink, not sipping it like a civilized person. A few minutes after emptying the martini glass and handing it back to me, Stone began to sway, looking a bit woozy.

“Hard day at the office, dear?” I chirped, setting a plate of steak and mashed potatoes in front of him.

“What did you...?” Stone slurred.

I leaned forward as far as my belly would let me and folded my hands. “You see, Stone, I might be a thousand times better than your Sasha, but you’re not a thousand times better than my Stone. That’s going to be a problem for me.”

Stone’s expression went from shocked to furious to blank in the span of thirty seconds. His eyes rolled back and he face-planted on his steak, mashed potatoes splattering into his hair.

I primly picked up potato pieces from the tablecloth and sprinkled them on his unconscious head. “See what a mess you’re making?”

Of course, Stone didn’t answer.

I rose and went to Stone’s side. I began rifling through his pockets.

He had that dampening tablet, of course, but to my good fortune, the idiot also had the future orb.

I supposed he’d been planning another jump between realities for some reason or another, or had been worried about the other Sasha and Lucas and wanted an easy means of escape on his person. Regardless, both of them were mine now.

As soon as I touched the tablet, the dampening field went down, and I could feel Sasha not ten yards outside the cottage.

They were coming for him. For me.

‘Stop!’ I cried. ‘Stop, I can hear you now!’

‘You can hear me now?’ the other Sasha asked.

‘Yes. I’ve taken care of Stone. Just give me a minute and I’ll let you in,’ I said.

I quickly went to the garage where the thugs were playing cards. “I think there’s someone here!” I gasped theatrically. “Coming up the back!”

The thugs stood so fast their chairs toppled over.

‘I’m sending the others out the back. Do you have people here to round them up?’ I asked her.

‘The Royal Guard. I’ll let them know they’re coming,’ she replied.

“Hurry!” I said urgently to the thugs.

They crowded out the back door of the garage, except one. “I’m going to stick around to keep you covered,” he told me gallantly.

Idiot. “Sure. I’m just going to go get Stone and make sure we’re covered.”

“Good idea,” the idiot replied and left me to it.

I smiled and skipped, or rather happily waddled, to the front of the house and opened the door. “Welcome to my prison.”

Lucas eyed me warily, but the his Sasha was a lot more forgiving. “Is there anyone else we need to worry about?” she asked kindly.

“There’s one in the garage. Oh, wait, I guess not.” I watched as the wide-eyed idiot came out of the kitchen that adjoined the garage and gaped at us.

Lucas growled and was on him in seconds. I wasn’t sure if Lucas killed him or just subdued him, but there was an awful crack of bone either way.

“Are you alright?” the other Sasha asked me, drawing my attention away from the carnage.

“I’m fine. He was taking good care of me. I’m not entirely sure why. He never said what part of the plan I was going to be in, but I’m pretty sure he needed something from me,” I said.

“I wish you hadn’t run away.” The other Sasha was trying to put this delicately, I could tell.

I gestured to my belly... or her belly, or whomever’s belly it really was. “I’m not going far now, am I?”

“You got pretty far before,” Lucas grumbled, having shifted back to human form.

“Well, you were going to just switch bodies and send me back,” I sniffed, hurt. “Like you didn’t completely upend my reality. Send me back to what? You imprisoned my fiance and that Lucas couldn’t give a damn about me. I had a life before you two showed up, you know. I thought maybe you’d at least let me have a place in this one, after what you took from me, but I guess that’s not going to happen, either.”

Lucas bowed his head, probably contrite about taking a tone with me. “You must have heard our conversation.”

“I heard everything,” I said, folding my arms on top of my belly.

“That’s... embarrassing....”

The other Sasha winced.

“Yes, well, the house isn’t so big I can’t hear you across the hall,” I responded.

“Very embarrassing,” Lucas agreed.

I made my way toward the front door again. “Stone’s in the dining room. I’ve got some ketamine in him, but I don’t know how long it’ll keep him out.”

Lucas barked a command to the Royal Guards, and four came in to arrest Stone.

“Surprised he didn’t use his orb to get away from us,” Lucas murmured when the Royal Guard came out with Stone.

He was waking, but woozy. This did not stop him from starting to kick and scream and curse my name, however.

“He doesn’t have it anymore,” I said, touching the pocket of my apron.

“What? What happened to it?” Lucas asked.

The other Sasha followed my movements. “You have it.”

I nodded. “So, let’s all get going somewhere safe and discuss what’s going to be happening with it. Because I’m not just handing it and this body over.”

“Do you think you really have a choice in the–” Lucas growled.

The other Sasha interrupted him. “Fair enough. We have ruined your life, and we really don’t want you using the future orb to run off on us. Let’s go to the palace and discuss it.”

“Agreed,” I said.

When we got outside in the crisp night air, Lucas gave a loud whistle, and his black town car zipped around a corner and parked in front of us. Ian jumped up and opened the back door.

“I’ll get in back with Sasha,” the other Sasha told Lucas. “You’re in no fit state to be sitting next to her. You’re just going to upset her.”

“Maybe she deserves to be upset,” Lucas grumbled, but he obediently got in the front seat.

I sat in the back, and the other Sasha came around the other side to sit next to me. She took my hands, which I hadn’t expected, and gave me a sympathetic look.

“I am sorry about what we’ve done to you and your life,” the other Sasha said.

Nibbling my lower lip, I thought about my own sins and sighed. “I’m sorry for trying to make your Lucas mine.”

“Don’t be. He’s a great mate and partner. If I’d been in your shoes, I’d have tried the same,” the other Sasha reassured me.

We looked at each other, then both laughed.

“Unbelievable,” Lucas muttered from the front seat.

That just made us laugh more.

Ian drove us smoothly through the different socioeconomic districts of town, moving up and up in class until we got to the palace. The Royal Guard warriors were in their own black vehicles, some of them peeling off, I imagined going to the jail, and some following us. They piled out of their cars and surrounded us before Ian let us out at the palace steps.

“Can’t be too careful,” the leader said gruffly.

Lena and Xander were waiting for us in what I recognized as Lena’s sitting room. Xander, much like Lucas, was giving me the evil eye, but Lena gestured for us all to sit and called for refreshments.

“Have you had dinner?” she asked me kindly.

“I... sort of ruined it with Stone’s face,” I admitted.

The other Sasha giggled and that, finally, made Lucas smile.

Xander chuckled a little before he was able to school his features back into a stern mask. “You’ve caused a lot of trouble, young lady,” he said, shaking a finger at me.

I blushed. “Yeah... not one of my better decisions, but I didn’t think I had any other choice.”

“There’s always a better choice.”

Xander kept scolding, but Lena put a hand on his knee and he stopped.

“Did Stone ever say why he wanted you?” Lena asked.

I shook my head. “He said he and Morianne were going to raise the Dark Lord, but they never said what part I had to play in it. That Stone wouldn’t tell me made me really uncomfortable.” I put my hands protectively over my belly.

“Raise the Dark Lord? Well, that’s just fantastic. I really wish, just every once in a while, people and organizations we’ve defeated would just stay defeated,” Xander complained.

“No argument here,” Lucas grunted.

I looked at Lucas. “He says your ancestor Soren Black stopped his family’s destined rise to power. I think Stone is some kind of descendent of the Dark Lord.”

“Good thing he’s in prison, then,” Lucas said.

A murmur of agreement went all the way around, but it stopped at me as I shook my head. “My Stone hasn’t done any of the things you’ve imprisoned him for. I want him out. I want my world set back to its proper circumstances.”

“You want what now?” Xander replied, staring at me like I’d grown a second head.

“I have the future orb. I don’t know how to use it properly, but if you don’t help me, so help me Goddess, I’m keeping this body forever and doing everything in my power to get back to my reality and free my Stone,” I said firmly. “I won’t cooperate one bit with you, whatever you want to do. In fact, I’ll disappear right now if I have to.”

The rest of the group stiffened, and I felt a bit smug. It was nice to have the upper hand, for once.

“Alright, what do you propose?” Lena asked while Xander gave me a glare that should have reduced me to ash.

“I will gladly switch bodies back with Sasha,” I said. “And I will go back to my reality. But you first have to fix what you broke.”

“I’m not sure....” Lucas responded, paling a little.

The other Sasha kicked him in the shin. “We’ll do it. I promise, I swear we aren’t going to send you back to the broken reality alone. We’ll go and we won’t leave until we’ve put it back the way we found it.”

“Good.” I sagged with relief. “That’s really all I ask.”

“I’m not sure we should keep hopping around realities like we have been. It’s dangerous, and bad shit keeps happening, and–” Lucas said.

The other Sasha kicked him again. “We did this, whether we meant to or not. Now, we’re going to fix it.”

Lucas groaned and dropped his head into his hands. “Fine, fine.”

I smiled at him and handed the future orb and the dampening tablet to Lena. “Great. Now, let’s see about getting us switched back into the right bodies, shall we?”