[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride":3,"chapter-the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-2":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Alpha's Unwanted Bride",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1496426,1945,"Chapter 2: SEIGE","the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-2",2,"\u003Cp>I felt something warm against my back as I stirred awake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't move so much, dear.\" Urma's voice cooed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I opened my eyes and saw that I was lying face-front on my tummy and that my back was exposed down to my waist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I watched as Urma dipped the water inside a pail of bucket and squeezed it, then she gently pressed it over my open wounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ahhh.\" I cried out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Urma smoothed my hair. \"My child, don't worry; the pain will soon be over.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I felt my throat choked up as I reminisced on my suffering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For nineteen years, that was all I had known.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No happiness, no family, no future, no escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was trapped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That useless girl.\" Urma snorted. \"A good number of times, I want to give her a good beating.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You shouldn't say such a thing,\" I managed. \"What if they hear you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn't afford to lose her or put her in trouble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had come to learn that people had been put in trouble for helping me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When I was younger, an omega offered me some of his food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luna Maria had accused him of stealing and had his hands cut off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone steered clear of me after that incident.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Omega had grown to hate me. This happened when I was only six years old.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There is nothing they can do,\" Urma said to me. \"How long will they treat you like this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had asked myself that same question, too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She picked up one of her ointment bottles and rubbed it over my back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pain burned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I had shifted, I could heal all my injuries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I had not. That was another thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a further abomination that I had reached the age of nineteen and still hadn't shifted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It meant that you would never find a mate and that you were useless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How much more could fate be cruel to me?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Urma picked up a knife and cut her palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why did you do that?\" I asked her in shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She pressed the blood over my back, and I felt my back burn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I screamed in pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she held me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm so sorry, my child.\" She said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, the pain slowly eased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I had to use my blood to heal you, or you might not heal on time.\" She said. \"The marks are becoming too much.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn't even tell her thank you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was too weak for that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Loud bells were ringing around the entire castle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Urma turned to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Alpha is back.\" She said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I swallowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My father didn't want me or anything related to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had never openly acknowledged me as his child, and sometimes I doubted it, but Urma had confirmed the rumors and told me it was true\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Throughout my growth, he had ignored me and acted like I didn't exist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had grown to be so scared of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he would speak to the thousands of our pack members from his balcony with Luna Maria, his son Abel, and their daughter Jessica, I would cower, watching them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wondering if one day I would be up there too with them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I had grown up to realize that that dream would never come true.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I knew that he had gone to fight with some of the other enemy packs as usual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Our pack frequently sang his song of praises and how he made every other pack go down on their knees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They all feared him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the Wolf Council.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I started to get up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You need to rest.\" She stopped me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But I have to attend to Her Majesty,\" I said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Urma snorted. \"Ignore that spoilt brat. You need to rest. Don't worry. She won't do anything.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Exhaustion took the best of me, and I nodded slowly and fell back asleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alpha Bale paced his throne room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was furious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had just returned, and he had lost the battle. Horribly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was his first loss in almost thirty years, and it had been to the Crescent Moon pack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And to put further humiliation to his name, it was to a young alpha.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xaden, who he had remembered to be a child when he had murdered his family, was now a man and had grown so powerful and hungry for revenge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had shocked him as Xaden's wolf army wipedallhis men in a clean sweep. Only he had survived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Never had he witnessed such disgrace, and like a coward, he had had to run and beg for help from the wolf council, which had agreed to intervene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Xaden asked for too much, and Bale was forced to agree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or his head would have gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The door was opened, and his wife Maria came in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What happened? I didn't see your party outside. Is everything al-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where is Jasmine?\" He asked, cutting her short.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She stopped in her tracks, blinking at him in shock, and her face became grim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You mean the bastard child you fathered?\" She asked him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He glared at her. \"Do not push me, Maria. Not today. Where the fuck is she?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maria flinched. \"She is down with that healer.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He rubbed his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What's happening?\" She asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We lost the war.\" He said. Her mouth dropped. \"We lost every fucking thing. We're at the mercy of that bastard Xaden.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Xaden? Who is Xaden?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she paused, and it dawned on her. \"Wasn't he Orion's son? Didn't you kill him?\" Maria asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hissed, ignoring her as he raked his hair. \"I didn't see it coming. It was an ambush. I didn't know he was alive. I had no idea that he had been growing his strengths for years.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Orion and Bale had been best friends, but when it came down to power, Bale attacked Orion's pack and massacred them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had rendered the entire pack useless, killing Orion and his whole family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had thought he had killed Xaden, too, but somehow, the child had survived, and when he saw him on the battlefield, he knew that it was over for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He would have killed all of us if I didn't go to the council. They intervened, and the accord demands all my children to be handed over to him.\" He said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He banged a mirror with his fist, and it shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Give out? What do you mean?\" She asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Xaden is going to own them and the entire pack as his. We will be at his mercy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maria looked like she was going to faint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She shook her head as she gripped his armor. \"No, not my son. Not my daughter. Not my children! How could you let this happen?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We have no choice.\" He said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We can send them off away. To hide somewhere.\" She begged as she fell to his feet, crying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They know what Abel looks like!\" He said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was his own son—his only son! Did she think he liked this, too?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The council and Xaden's pack is coming; they are already on their way here,\" Bale said. \"We can save Jessica. Jasmine is my blood. They would sniff to be sure that she is mine and confirm it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But she is a bastard,\" Maria said, tears in her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But they don't know that,\" Bale answered. \"You don't understand. He is here for blood. And he will never stop. Where is Jasmine?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maria blinked at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She was whipped today.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bale wanted to scream and kick his wife.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"THEY ARE ALREADY ON THEIR WAY AND WILL HOLD US SEIGE. HOW WOULD THEY BELIEVE SHE IS A PRINCESS OF THIS PACK WHEN THEY SEE SHE IS SICK?????!!!!!!!\u003C\u002Fp>",1283,"2026-06-06T04:22:12.730Z",1,"novelbin.me","b72e01be20ee820534cb5daee32439f8338cfa807722e3ca7964f62d12191f72","the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-3","the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-1",728,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-cover.jpg"]