The Alpha's Unwanted Bride novel Chapter 7

Chapter 7: CONSUMMATE THE MARRIAGE

My heart stopped.

Was I going to be his bride? This very same man who had beheaded my brother and castrated and decapitated Jessica's mate.

I swallowed, terrified of taking the hand that was open for me.

I turned and saw my father.

His face was filled with demand.

He didn't care what happened to me; I had to do it.

I looked back at Xaden, and then I gave him my hand, and he led me up the few steps to the throne.

I had never stood on the throne leverage in such a way.

It had always and only been too clean.

And even at that, for the enslaved people, we were not allowed to stand on the ground of the thrones.

We were to crawl up and do the cleaning.

We were only allowed to stand when we had descended the four steps that separated the thrones from the regular floor.

We weren't fit enough to even stand with the Alpha.

But now, here I was.

He pulled me to his side.

One of the members of the Wolf Council came to stand between us with a book and started reciting it.

I knew what these vows were.

I had never attended a wolf ceremony except when it came to serving the Hugh-ranking couples in the pack.

And I was always sent off once my job was done

They were my binding to him for life.

Wolf bond.

In cases where the wolves getting married weren't mates, a divorce could be possible.

But for Mates, once bonded, it was for life. No matter what.

I looked up at him; his face was expressionless, emotionless.

There was nothing on it.

Just a handsome man with no heart.

I looked down at my feet, unused to staring at anyone.

The older man recited the vows and picked out a sacred dagger. "Elinn veer gumi wurx iq xenni." I knew what that meant.

"A blood together for one always." The man said.

He picked out my hand, and then he cut it with the dagger.

I cried in pain, and then he did the same for Xaden, who looked like nothing had just happened.

Then, my hand was set against Xaden's—the open wound meeting with mine.

There was a light glow from our hands.

It took me aback.

"The marriage has been bonded." He said.

I slowly took my hand away, looking at my palm and wondering where the light had radiated.