[{"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-29":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},1496453,1945,"Chapter 29: NIGHTMARE","the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-29",29,"\u003Cp>XADEN’S POV\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Xaden, Xaden, wake up.\" A familiar female voice stirred him awake. \"Wake up, my love.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stirred in his bed to face where the voice was coming from, and then his eyes fluttered open, and he saw his mother looking up at him, seemingly sad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mummy, \"Mummy, what’s wrong?\" He asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We have to go,\" she told him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His sister Anna was on her hip, her hand still on her thumb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I want you to be a good boy. Be the brave young boy you are.\" She said, tears filling her eyes. \"Mummy loves you. Take care of Anna. I love both of you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What’s happening?\" He asked her, confused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His mom always told him that she loved him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even his dad. Dad. Why was she saying it? It sounded like something was wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was shouting and shouting and loud noises outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why was there such a lot of noise? Wasn’t it just bedtime?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked out the window and saw that it was still dark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or was there a festival happening?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She dropped Anna on the bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anna was sound asleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I need you to wake up.\" She said. \"I want you to protect your sister. She won’t be awake. I gave her something to knock her out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anna wrapped herself around his neck. She was only two years old.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where is Daddy?\" He asked, hearing a familiar voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your daddy is trying to protect us.\" She said. \"And I’m going to protect you. If anything happens to me, I want you to run. Run as fast as you can.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were more noises, and they were getting louder. As if they were getting closer,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were tears now on her cheek, and she hurriedly wiped them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some footsteps were approaching before he could reply or ask any more questions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hide,\" she said, pulling him up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His sister clung to his neck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t open the door, \" she told him as she shoved him into a closet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What about Daddy?\" He asked. \"Where is Daddy?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She went quiet, and her face went ashen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your father is protecting us.\" She assured him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to ask more questions, like what was happening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wasn’t a baby like Anna. She could tell him, and he would understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she cut him off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t come out.\" She said. \"No matter what, Stay inside. Do you understand me, Xaden?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then she kissed his forehead and his sister’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked at them slowly for a while and finally stepped away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she closed the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The main doors were flung open, and he could hear Uncle Bale’s voice approaching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Uncle Bale! He was here to save them! Now, whatever was about to happen, he would save them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to jump out, but his mother’s voice stopped him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How could you betray us?\" She said. \"How could you ambush us after everything?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You betrayed me the day you married Orion!\" Uncle Bale snapped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Xaden was confused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why was Uncle Bale shouting at his mother?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is that what this is about?\" She asked. \"Is that why you’ve done what you just did? Because of me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He heard someone spit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You were supposed to be mine,\" Bale said. \"But you went to him! You left me knowing that I loved you. I’ve always wanted power. Orion was more powerful than I am. I had to eliminate him, or I would never be the strongest Alpha.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he said, \"But about you and me, I can still forgive you. If you come with me, I will spare the lives of your family.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You liar!\" She snapped. \"I know you, and you will never turn away from blood! Not after what you’ve done!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You can spread your legs for Orion, but not for me?!\" He demanded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a hefty slap, and Xaden knew his mother had given it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t you ever! Ever! Talk to me like that in your life!\" She snapped at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a loud slap, and it was like a thud, and Xaden heard his mother cry in pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had fallen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He held onto Anna, scared. He was a little boy and didn’t know what to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You just have to make it tough, don’t you?!\" He demanded. \"Your husband is dead. And now I’ll have to handle you the hard way.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What sounded like the tearing of clothes and then things breaking, his mothers weeping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More slaps that Xaden knew were given to his mother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t touch me, you bastard!\" She screamed in the struggle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After what sounded like more struggles and screams, Xaden started to hear some weird noises.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His mother was weeping and making weird noises while hearing a man grunt over and over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xaden hugged his little sister in the cabinet tightly to his chest and put his hands over her ears so she wouldn’t hear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t know what the noises were, but his mother was crying, and he couldn’t do anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a short while, it stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His mother was still weeping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Filthy prostitute!\" Uncle Bale’s voice said. \"Join your husband!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then there was the sound of a sword entering somewhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xaden didn’t know what prompted him to do so, but he flew out of the cabinet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right in his very front was his mother’s dead body, her dress hitched up and her thigh exposed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There is the brat.\" Bale’s evil eyes gleamed, and as he approached, the little boy shook, and everything went.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Xaden!\" A feminine voice startled him awake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked around and saw that he had fallen asleep in his office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had even spilled the quiz and ink on the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He rubbed his eyes and massaged his temples.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were filled with sweat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those nightmares again. They had come back to haunt him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The knock at the door continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Aurora.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come in,\" he said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The doors opened, and she walked up to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You need to tell me why you brought that enemy’s daughter to our pack alive after what he did to all of us!\" Aurora demanded.\u003C\u002Fp>",1019,"2026-06-06T04:22:12.730Z",1,"novelbin.me","2015a87206aed41772522a7a31e7617f1446e48e46b873698c02a181fb41b61f","the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-30","the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-28",728,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-cover.jpg"]