The Alpha's Unwanted Bride novel Chapter 282

Chapter 282: DO NOT FOLLOW THE KING

"I thought I lost you, Anna." He said once he let go and cupped her cheeks.

Jessica was still shocked and dazed.

She turned to Luna Maria.

"Mother is this true?" She asked her voice breaking.

"She is not your mother." Xaden sneered with hate at Luna Maria.

Luna Maria saw that she had been trapped in a corner and began to panic.

Finally, she let it out.

"Yes! I did it! Yes, I took her!" She said. "But I was the best mother she would have ever had! Your mother had everything! Everything! The perfect family! Husband! Two children! She had it all."

"I deserved it. Not her. She was a spoiled brat who had everything from the moment we were young. I always took her leftovers as her friend. But I was never given the love she had. And so yes! I took it! I took Jessica for myself because I was the best mother she could have ever had."

Jessica began to cry at the revelation that sent chills through her bones.

"Jessica you were only a child so you don’t remember a thing. I am the one you know. I am the one who was your mother." Maria said.

"Stay away from from ME!" Jessica screamed as she wept uncontrollably.

Maria was hurt by her outburst.

It was the last thing she had expected.

"You knew about this." Xaden turned to Urma. "And you did not inform the council or the royal family anyone,"

Xaden was looking for who to now turn his anger on.

"Yes, I did not." She said boldly. "But I did it to save Jasmine. When I found out and I wanted to inform the authorities, I was threatened. They knew how much I cared for Jasmine and so they told me that if I reported they would kill Jasmine. I could not take that risk."

"You disobeyed a law," Xaden said in anger at Urma.

"She is the reason we know the truth," Jasmine said in disbelief.

"Stay out of this you!" He snapped at her.

Jasmine was hurt at his use of words.

"He is right stay out of this one ."

Urma said facing him boldly. Then she turned to him. "Yes, I disobeyed a permanent law. But I did it to save that girl there."

"Anna belonged with her family. She belonged with me. In her home. You took that away by sitting on this secret for so many years." He told her in anger as he held unto Jessica.

"Then so be it! Blame me! But look at your sister! Ask everyone in this pack how Jessica was treated. Ask her how spoiled and rotten to the core she was raised. The rumors you heard about Bale’s spoiled daughter you had come looking for initially were about your sister." Urma said.

Xaden swallowed hard at the realization.

"But look at Jasmine. She was treated horribly in this pack. By her own family. If your sister was going to be petted and raised like their own while Jasmine lived then I preferred it. Because you have no idea any of the things Jasmine endured. Or you do and you choose to not believe it. Whatever it is, I made the right decision and if you are going to kill me for it then so be it."

Xaden was quiet for a while.

Then he said. "I will deal with this later."

Before they could say a word, one of the guards grabbed Jasmine and put a blade by her neck.

"What are you doing?" Erik asked.

"If you come any further I will kill her." The guard said stepping back.

"My lord," Bale said speaking up.

And then it dawned on them.