The Alpha's Unwanted Bride novel Chapter 4

Chapter 4: CLAIMING HIS BRIDE

XADEN'S POV

Xaden and his men stormed the castle with the seven lead members of the wolf council.

He hated this place.

The moment he stepped foot in the moonlight pack, he spat in a corner.

It was blood ground. He could remember coming here as a child.

His mother and father visit frequently.

But they had betrayed them, spilled his father's blood in the soil, cut off his mother's head, pulled out his sister's intestines, and proceeded to kill him before wiping out the entire pack clean.

He would have punished him; he would have made him suffer before he begged for death, before cutting off Bale's head on the war ground and flung it at the feet of his entire family before breaking it apart and using the bones with some diamonds on his throne.

But the bastard had run off to the wolf council and begged for an accord they had given him.

Now Xaden was forced to come to terms with the fucking law.

He could claim Bale's bloodline as his band, and the pack would belong to him.

But according to the Wolf laws, he would spare Bale and his wife until the following purging for a new moon in one year.

Xaden wanted to laugh! He didn't give a fuck about Bale's children! He wanted him! The fucking bastard had to pay for what he had done to him!

As Xaden walked by, the people scurried away, with good reason. The Guards shook at his arrival, fearing him.

He walked up to the throne room and sat down on it. His eyes looked around; he would tear this place down when he was done.

He didn't even give a fuck about this fucking castle.

When he returned to claim Bale, he would tear down the castle to absolutely nothing.

The same way he had done to his own home.

"Where are they?" Xaden demanded. "My patience is trying. I will forfeit the law and murder all of them."

"He will be here soon." One of the Leaders of the wolf council said.

Xaden leaned back in the seat.

He gave them five minutes. Five fucking minutes.

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JASMINE'S POV

Jasmine saw herself in a dress she had never for once in her life thought she would wear.

It was cream, with pearls and outlines made of the most expensive fabric.

It gave a cleavage she had never taken note of, and her long, curly red hair was styled up.

A veil was placed over her head, and she was made up so that anyone would think she was a princess.

She turned to Urma. "What is going to happen to me?"

She was scared of the truth and scared of what she was going to be told. She only knew bits and bits of it.

But she didn't want to be kept in the dark.

Urma turned to look at Luna Maria, standing with the other servants, discussing what jewelry to give.

"This is an accord," Urma whispered to me. "Alpha Bale and Xaden have met an intervention from the wolf council. I don't know the details of this arrangement, but I do know that from the law, Xaden is given a choice to choose, but he cannot choose the Alpha and the Luna until the next new moon. But he can claim anything else."

I blinked. "An accord? Why did they give him?"

"They didn't just give Alpha Bale. He bought it. And only a few Alphas can afford to have an accord. I don't know how he did it, but he did. And that gives you immunity in situations like these."

"Why am I going as his daughter?" I asked Urma.

She sighed. "He doesn't want to lose his daughter. That's why he's setting you up with Alpha Xaden."

I began to feel my heart flutter.

Was I just an animal meant for the slaughter? He had said my husband was waiting for me. Was I going to marry Xaden?

"Am I to wed him?" I asked her.

She shrugged. "That is up to the Alpha's choice. He will decide what he wants to do with you and the rest of us." _{freeωebnovēl.c૦m}

The door busts open, and Alpha Bale comes in.

He looked at me and snapped at a servant. "For God's sake, cover that ugly face of hers."

I felt my heart crash instantly at his words.