The Alpha's Unwanted Bride novel Chapter 44

Chapter 44: REDEMPTION

JASMINE’S POV

When I saw him, I had a sudden surge of emotions.

Surprised, confused, and elated.

Why had he come? And how had he even known that I was in trouble?

I knew that he didn’t want me dead because he tried to keep punishing me, but seeing him at the door.

I didn’t know how to feel.

The girls all froze once they saw him.

"What is going on here?" That was all he said.

They quickly withdrew from me and jumped off.

I sat up slowly and weakly.

I could feel the bruises and my bottom lip bleeding.

Plus, my forehead hurt severely.

The girls were vividly shaking and stood with their eyes downcast.

"I asked a question." He said. "What is going on here?"

His voice had only further scared them, and now they were shaking.

"We were just teaching her a lesson." The girl who first attacked me said,

"A lesson," Xaden asked as he walked further into the room.

I slowly got up to my feet and adjusted my dress, which was now in shattered pieces.

"Do you know what a lesson is?" He asked.

The girls were still shaking.

"She is an enemy—your enemies’ daughter. I brought her to the pack by myself. If anyone is going to punish her, it would be me and not you, " he said.

There was a pregnant silence in the room.

"Are you the Alpha?" he asked.

No one could reply.

"ANSWER ME!" He demanded.

The girl who had been the first to beat me jumped and quickly said, "N-no Alpha Xaden. "You alone are the Alpha."

"So now tell me, " he said. What possessed you to make such a decision by yourself?"

They were all now trembling, and they fell to their knees.

"Please forgive us, Alpha Xaden." They wept.

He just watched their backs and gazed at them.

"You know the punishment." He said.

They shrank in fear.

I quickly went to stand in front of them.

"Please don’t punish them," I begged.

He looked at me, surprised.

And then I fell to my knees and pleaded. "Please do not. I am fine and alive." I said.

"This has nothing to do with you." He said it without paying me any regard. "But with the fact that they disobeyed my laws,"

"It’s because of me," I said. "They disobeyed your laws. If I weren’t here, they would never have."

He ignored me.