The Alpha's Unwanted Bride novel Chapter 3

Chapter 3: FORCED BRIDE

I had never been called to Alpha Bale's presence, not for once.

So when Urma woke me up and told me he had sent it for me, I could hardly believe it.

She gave me some medicine to ease the pain and a new dress to wear.

As I walked down the hallway with two guards at my side to the throne room, which I had never been called to but frequently scrubbed its floors, I felt my tummy move with unease.

What could this be all about?

Were they finally going to kill me? Was he ready to announce my death sentence?

They opened the doors for me, and I saw him.

Luna Maria, Abel, and Jessica were standing by his side with the pack head advisor.

In his sixties, an old Lycan named Leman had been in the pack for years.

My eyes went straight to the man who had fathered me. Who had supposedly given me life but never acknowledged me as his.

He was looking at me eye to eye for the first time in my entire life.

I swallowed.

"Your wounds." He said. "Are they visible?"

I blinked, confused.

Was this why he had called me? To ask about my wounds?

"I'm not sure, Your Majesty," I said, bowing my head down.

Alpha Bale nudged to Leman, and Leman walked up to me.

"Turn around, girl, " the old man instructed. I did as he told me, and then I felt his hand undo the ribbons on my back.

I yelped, but he held me. "Stay still, girl!"

I froze, my heart racing.

What was he trying to do?

Humiliate me further?

Then I felt my dress open at the back but not revealed below my waist, and I stiffened.

"I could do it for you." Abel offered Leman

I felt my whole body go cold.

I knew what Abel could do.

Times without number, Abel, the first legitimate son of Alpha Bale and also my stepbrother, had tried to force himself on me.

He would look at me lustfully when I worked, and the only thing I could do was ignore him.

I had once been cleaning his room when he had jumped in and ripped my dress apart.

I had fled the room and steered clear of him ever since.

He was almost the same age as me and had the same attitude as Jessica, except he lusted after my body.

No one knew. And even if they did, nothing would be done about it.

"Leave. Leman will do it." Alpha Bale said.

There was silence when my back was in full view.

"Gods." Alpha Bale said. "Why isn't she healing?"

"She is a Latent. She can not shift." Leman replied.

"Gods." I heard Alpha Bale say, irritated. "Get me Urma."

I heard footsteps leave, and I knew some guards had gone to give him orders.

I felt my heart break. He hadn't even bothered to know about me how I had fared. Did he even know how old I was? Did he even know anything about me at all?

Even though I had lived in the pack for nineteen good years.

I could feel their disgust towards me for what I was.

I should have shifted when I was sixteen, but till today I haven't.

I wasn't just a latent wolf but an outcast.

I shuddered and wanted to throw them off, but I couldn't. _{frёeωebɳovel.com}