The Alpha's Unwanted Bride novel Chapter 385

Chapter 385: NO HEARTS

Xaden started to speak. "Jasmine I-

"What makes you even believe that I would think you would be different from my father? Different from everything that I faced? Tell me." She said, her eyes filled with tears.

"You never even wanted the baby in the first place. At least with my father, I don’t know if he wanted me." Jasmine stated. "But you wanted me to kill your flesh and blood."

"It’s not like that." He said weakly. "I never wanted to have a child because of what happened to my parents. I have never told anyone this, but I told you. The reason why I don’t have a family today is because of what Bale did to us. He used us as leverage against my father. I never want to be in that situation."

He sighed and looked up at the ceiling.

He closed his eyes and took an intense breath before looking back down at Jasmine and saying,

"I don’t want to be backed into a Corner. I don’t want to have my enemies take my child and use it against me because I would fall. Because I would not live with myself if anything happened. Even to you. I can’t let my enemies take you and use you as leverage against me".

Jasmine was taken aback by his words.

"You are throwing me away." She said. "There is no way that you are-

"I CARE ABOUT YOU!" He snapped.

She stopped, unable to say a word, her breathing so heavy she thought she would die.

"I care about you." He repeated much more quietly. "In ways that I shouldn’t care about you. You shouldn’t mean anything to me".

He dragged her hand and pulled her towards the large French windows.

"What are you doing?" She asked him.

"I’m showing you." He replied.

Once they were at the French windows, he pushed the curtains open, and the moonlight showed into her bedroom.

It was already nighttime.

He turned to face her, and then he took off his chest.

Under his left nipple was a mark that formed like a zig-zag.

She looked closely and saw that it was stitched.

She had never in her life seen it before.

Her mouth opened in question.

"When I told you that I never wanted to have a child. I never wanted to be backed into a corner where my enemies would use things against me; I meant business."

He looked down at his chest. "I don’t have a heart."

That stopped her right in her tracks.

Her own heart beat so fast that she believed she could hear it.

"Years ago." He said. "When I decided that I wanted to pursue Bale. When I was certain that I wanted to avenge my family and my pack, I knew that love was a weakness. Love was the one thing that made my father weak. I was never going to let myself fall into such a predicament."

"So you took out your heart." Jasmine finished for him.

"I took out my heart." He confirmed. "That way, I was never going to love anyone. I can care about my people, but I would never love anyone. When it boils down to being backed into a corner, I would make a decision based on the most logical not one based on my heart. I also took away the ability to have children. That’s why I have never bred with any wolf. Never."

Jasmine was too shocked to understand the words he spoke.

And then he very gently tucked a loose fire curl behind her ear. _{freēwēbηovel.c૦m}