Sold as the Alpha King's Breeder

Chapter 164 Ethan’s Rage
**Rosalie’s POV
The way that Ethan was growling at us, I had assumed he was still in his wolf form, but when I turned to look at him, it was the human Ethan’s eyes I was looking into.
Shirtless with only a small pair of tattered shorts covering him, he glared at me, his hands in fists.
At the moment, it was difficult to tell the difference between the man and his beast.
“What the f*ck are you doing, Rosalie?” he shouted at me, coming at me slowly, which was surprising. I didn’t know why he didn’t shoot right past me and go after Rowan. Wouldn’t it be the baby he was really after?
“I’m doing whatever the hill I want to,” I shot back immediately and tried my best to keep his attention on me. “Who do you think you are to tell me what I can and cannot do, Ethan?”
He had narrowed the distance between us so that he was only a few feet away.
I needed to make sure Seraphine and Soren had time to get out of here so that Ethan couldn’t get my baby.
I listened to the sound of them running through the woods behind me, the thunk of their wolf paws getting quieter and quieter as they got further away.
Even though I realized I was sacrificing my freedom, I needed Rowan to be safe, and that meant he needed to be in the north, with our pack, not here, locked in a heavily guarded tent in the middle of a battlefield.
“You promised me!” Ethan growled, his teeth locked together in a grimace. “I trusted you, Rosalie! You said you wouldn’t leave without telling me goodbye!”

“And I haven’t!” I argued, even though the only reason I was still there was because he had caught me. “Goodbye, Ethan!” I said and turned to go, as if that ws the only reason I hadn’t left with the others.
I wasn’t surprised at all when his fingers wrapped around my arm and tugged me back. It didn’t hurt, but it was forceful.
“You’re not f*cking going anywhere, Rosalie!” he said. “You f*cking lied to me! You were planning to sneak out from me again, and you know it!”
I wrenched my arm out of his grip. “You have the audacity to stand there and yell at me for lying to you, Ethan? Seriously? After all of the lies you’ve said to me? You don’t get to talk to me about breaking promises! I would’ve said whatever was necessary to get you to leave me the hell alone!”
His crimson eyes were so red that it almost seemed like they would start to drip blood. He further narrowed them until they were only slits. He was seething, his nostrils flaring as he drew in deep breaths. “Just wake the f*ck up, Rosalie!” he said. “You think that you’re the queen now so you can do what you want, but you will always belong to me, do you understand?!”
“I don’t belong to you, Ethan! I don’t belong to anyone!” | yelled at him. Anger was beginning to boil up in me, too, now. Who the heck did he think he was? What did I have to do to prove to him that I was an individual, a person, who wasn’t owned or controlled on the property of anyone?
” You will always belong to me!” he said again. “And now, you’ve let my f*cking a*shole half-brother take our baby? Are you insane? Have you f*cking lost your mind?!”
Your brother will take care of my son!” | emphasized the word “my” as I yelled back. “Unlike you, he actually cares about people! All you ever do for Rowan is come in and stare at him for a few minutes a day. He doesn’t even know who you are! You only wanted him as an heir, but have you ever thought of what he wants?”
I could tell his fists were clenched tightly. I could hear the cracking of his knuckles. Would he hit me? However, I didn’t care at that moment so I continued, “You care as little about his life as you do mine, and he will know that, Ethan. He will grow up knowing that his absent father was just a tyrant who only cares about himself!”
“Shut up, Rosalie!” Ethan scowled at me. “You don’t know what the f*ck you’re talking about! I love my son!”
“Love?” | sneered, “He was simply a product of you following King James’s orders, and nothing more. No one who actually loves their child would ever hurt their other parent, and you were going to curse him to a life with no mother because I wasn’t convenient to you! You were going to let my son be raised by Madalynn! Who the hell would ever do that to their child?!”
All of the mistreatment i’d suffered at Ethan’s hands came back to me, flashing before my eyes, and more than anything. I just wanted to hit him.
But he was so much bigger than me, so much stronger, raising a hand to hit him would be suicidal. One blow from his fist could end me. Yet, I continued to dance the fine line between baiting him with my words and sending him spiraling into a rage where he couldn’t control his own emotions or actions.
His scarlet eyes were glowing now, as he continued to measure me up as his fists clenched and unclenched. “You’re going to pay for this, Rosalie,” he said. “If you think the conditions before were unfair, you just f*cking wait. You’ve betrayed the wrong Alpha.”
“You’re no Alpha!” I shouted. “You’re just a rogue! And not even a good one at that. You tried to kill your own followers! You have even killed your own soldiers in battle because you care so little about others. These people have given up everything for you, Ethan! Vicky, Talon, Paul… Georgia, so many others! You aren’t worth it, and yet here you are bossing everyone around like you’re some sort of a freaking god when you’re really not even a man!”
I knew what I said wasn’t totally true. I heard from Vicky that Ethan mistakenly hurt some of his guys, but none of them were originally from Drogomor. Maybe deep down, his pack bond prevented him from hurting his own pack.
However, I didn’t care to clarify it with him. I saw him hesitate for a moment, seemingly shocked by what I’d said.
“Watch your mouth, Rosalie!” he shouted, and I could see him getting even closer to that breaking point.
But I was there, too. Anger shot through my veins as I thought about my friends and everything they had left behind so that Ethan would live. And how did he repay them? By becoming some sort of a monster. He didn’t care about any of them anymore, not even Talon who had stood by his side for so long.