The Alpha's Unwanted Bride novel Chapter 166

Chapter 166: WHERE DID THEY COME FROM

Xaden just stood as she slowly progressed towards him.

He knew those eyes, that face, he had seen them years back.

It had been imprinted into his brain when he discovered she was his first mate.

He instinctively took a step back.

She reached out to him.

"Xaden, it’s me." She repeated. "Lily."

He could barely even swallow; his entire throat was dry, and he was void of words.

First his uncle, and then now this?

This was a dream.

They were all playing tricks on him.

Someone was playing with his mind.

"You are not real." He said. "You were dead. I saw you."

She shook her head. "You saw what you were meant to see."

He rose a brow in confusion.

He was baffled.

What was going on here?

He felt everything in his body shake with anxiety, with uncertainty

Xaden, who was always certain.

Xaden, who was never unsure of himself, was now at a crossroads.

He still seemed in disbelief and turned to his men for support.

As if to ask them if they were seeing what he, too, was seeing.

They slightly nodded in silent answer.

His uncle cleared his throat and said. "When Bale attacked, your father made quick instructions to get some people out. I was the one who chaired that battalion."

Xaden blinked, and he reluctantly pulled his eyes away from Lily.

He looked at his mother’s brother and said. "Are you saying that there are people who escaped the attack that night?"

Then his uncle raised a brow and now looked confused. "Of course. There were about three battalions of people to be rescued. I headed mine; your father, Gamma Wilson, headed the one that was supposed to take you and your mother along with your sister. He was supposed to take direct members of the royal family."

"You are so grown now." His uncle said as he touched his cheeks. "Little Xaden is now replaced with a man surpassing even myself."

Then his uncle said. "Speaking of your mother. I need to see my sister. Where is she? I know your father died fending Bale off, and for that, I am very sorry."

His uncle touched Xaden’s shoulder and started walking towards the door. "Where is she? It has been goddamn too long."

"Uncle, there is no one left," Xaden said, stopping him in his tracks.

A stiff smile was stamped on his uncle’s face.

"What do you mean there is no one left?" He asked, confused.

Xaden looked to his men.

It was Damien who spoke up for Xaden. "The attack was brutal. We had no idea anyone escaped. Xaden, too, was believed dead. It was by chance that he was saved." Damien said.

Uncle Uther turned to look at Xaden; his smile had fallen.

"What about the other battalion?" He asked. "They were in good formation right after I had left."

Damien shook his head. "No one survived that attack. At least Xaden was the only one we were aware of. Few is known of what happened. Xaden was only a child when it happened and barely remembers the incident."

Uther’s breathing stiffened. "My sister, your sister, Anna?"

"They were all dead," Xaden said. "All gone."

He had finally gotten the voice to speak up.

Uther bit his bottom lip and almost fell to the ground when someone held him and set him to sit on the chair.

Lily was beside him as she and a guard eased him down on a chair.

"Easy," Lily said. "Please."

Uther remained on the chair, his hands in his face as his emotions evolved.

Xaden, on his own, could hardly believe what was going on.

There was a silence, and then, when Uther finally spoke, his voice broke.

"I just can not believe this," Uther said.

Xaden went to him, knelt on his knees, and touched his uncle’s shoulder.

"You are the only family I have seen since," Xaden said. "We do not weep over the dead, but we remember them."

Uther nodded fervently as his entire body shook.

Chen snapped, and a maid rushed in with a glass of water on a platter and put it before Uther.