The Alpha's Unwanted Bride novel Chapter 271

Chapter 271: THE EMERALD NECKLACE

"I did not know," She said her voice breaking. "I swear Xaden I had no idea."

"How were you supposed to know?" He asked her with a very mean voice. "What would knowing change? Would it bring back what he did to me? Would it change the past?"

She looked down at her hands as she was absolutely weak and even unable to say a word.

Then she looked back up at him. "No. It would not have. But it would have changed the way I looked at him."

He was surprised at her words back at him.

Then he straightened up and said. "It does not change what you did too."

"You think I am proud of myself?" She asked him. "You think that I am proud of supporting my father who barely even looked at me from

The moment I was born? Do you think that I am proud of myself?"

She sighed heavily. "I have been through things. Those scars at my back were all my pack’s doing. Luna Maria hated me so much. I was a reminder of her husband’s infidelity. I was the scorn. I was the scapegoat. And she and her daughter used that against me. Bear me with every slight opportunity they had."

She laughed and looked at him. "I know you hated me. But if you had Jessica instead of me, then you would have wished you had me. Jessica never did anything for herself. The stories that you heard about the spoiled daughter of Alpha Bale is as true as it could ever be. Jessica portrayed that. And whenever I crossed her she would have me beaten."

She sighed and resumed fingering her necklace.

"You always touch your necklace when you are anxious." He said.

She looked down and saw she was in fact touching her necklace .

"It was the only thing belonging to my mother that I had." She said. "My only memory of

Her even though I had one."

Then she looked up at him. "Do you want to see it?"

She started to take it off but Xaden felt an uneasy feeling.

"No it is yours." He said. "Yoh should

Have it on you always".

And then he rose up to his feet and started to head up towards the steps.

"Do you belive me now?" She asked him. "Do you belive that I never meant to hurt you? And that all I did, I did because I was forced to. I had no choice."

He stood standing.

He held the railings of the wooden steps that led out of the lower deck, then he said. "No I do not."

Then he started to ascend the steps.

"Will you kill me?" She asked.

He stopped short immediately.

Her heart started to race heavily waiting to hear what he had to say.

But then he simply said nothing and walked out of the cabin.

Jasmine pulled herself together and then rolled on her side in a fetal position and began to cry.

Then Kire heard her and climbed up the bed and cuddled himself around her.

He slowly licked her tears.

She managed a weak laugh and then she rubbed his hair.

Soon the gently rowing of the ship drifted the both of them to sleep

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Queen Rose lay in her bed fingering her daughter’s emeral gem.

Wondering and hoping.

She still had not given up on her daughter.

When she had found the broken emerald afloat it had been a message.

That her daughter was no more.

But Rose had refused. She had said that she had wanted to see her own dead body with her own eyes.

The emerald was a very powerful relic that the royal family had for thousands of years.

Its history went back as far as the first wolves.

Even before the Lycans.

It had been all where the wolves had begun.

What their history was about.

What their life was about.

The future Queen was to always wear the emerald necklace.

It was embedded with great power and once it was unleashed it could bring about the end of the race.

It could bring about the release of the first monsters that had walked this earth.

But Scarlett had worn it as it was expected. And she had taken the weight of it.

And when she had gone missing, they had all been worried about the necklace too.