[{"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-290":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},1496564,1945,"Chapter 290: THE INTRUDER","the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-290",290,"\u003Cp>Jasmine who had been left to sleep in a room she had never for once believed she would.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A room she had simply washed and cleaned when she was a member of this house.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though she was now the only living flesh and blood daughter of Bale, she was now the enemy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How the tables had turned, Jessica who had been horrid to her, had turned out to be the one and only Xaden’s sister.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It made zero sense to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could not comprehend how fate could be so cruel to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That she had suffered at the hands of her family at the hands of someone who had turned out to not be a member of her family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had suffered at their enemy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had suffered at the hands of men who had lusted after her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had been beaten bared with marks to serve as a reminder and a warning to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now look at where she was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if they now knew that she was Bale’s illegitimate daughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no original daughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because now, Jessica was Xaden’s sister and her sins would be forgiven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once again the hate would return because they all viewed her as the only surviving bloodline of Bale’s family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were people her father had been monstrous to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People who would still want to avenge him and kill her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When did it end?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She sighed weakly and took off her rag dress and tossed it inside a bin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she walked to the back chamber and saw that steaming hot water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She added the cold water into the hot tub and mixed it just like she had usually done when she was serving guests.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once it was done, she stepped into the room after and leg in the warm water spreading through her entire body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She moaned in pleasure and stretched into the tub.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a few minutes of letting the hot water flow through her body, she began to clean herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She washed her hair with a soap that had only been reserved for the elite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ones that she had replaced over and over when one finished it, but never used herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she went down to cleaning her body .\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then she remembered her father in the guard’s body and his eyes being purple and seeming dangerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His aura had changed and how he had been telling her that she should not follow the King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What had he even meant by that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if he had been turning into a monster and ready to attack her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But then something in him changed, snapped and then she sensed a very gentle side of him she had never noticed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like he had been warning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Warning her not to follow the King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had said something about her being his daughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was that supposed to mean something?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>None of it made any sense to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she was almost done with her bath she head the door of her bed chamber open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She froze quickly as she heard boots walking into the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her heart began to race.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because she was an unshifted wolf, she could not perceive scents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She slowly got out of the tub and picked up a towel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With her hair still very damp and her eyes wary with distrust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She picked up a small dagger that Erik had given her to protect herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And very gently began to advance towards the door of the bath chamber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She went very quietly towards the room where the footsteps had stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she waited for a while by the door before she heard the footsteps again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once she was sure that the intruder was in a close range, she lounged at him, baring her dagger at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It cut him by his cheek.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he quickly caught her and pulled her to him, but not before using his hand to knock out the dagger down to the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then pinned her up against the wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She landed with a bang and by the time she looked at her intruder who had easily been breathing as heavily as she had, she saw that it was none other than Xaden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She gasped in shock, her eyes confused and her brows raised in question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"W... wha... what?\" She stuttered unable to believe her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he freed one of her hands and used his other hand to secure the both of them together in the sign of a cross.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then he touched where she had cut him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough she has drawn blood with a line on his cheek.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now where did you learn that?\" He asked surprised and impressed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"On my own.\" She said afraid of telling him Erik had shown her a few steps to use a dagger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Huh.\" He rose a brow. \"And what were you thinking attacking me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She sighed heavily. \"I thought you were an intruder. I was scared and I lost it. Why did you attack me if you came to see me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then it dawned on her that maybe Erik had lied about Xaden allowing her to stay in this room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had just been him trying to be kind with her and now she had gotten into trouble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xaden had not expected to find her here that was why he had attacked her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do not blame Erik please.\" She quickly apologized. \"He simply wanted me to get clean in a chamber. I tried to explain to him but he insisted. Please do not punish.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xaden looked at her like she was crazy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What the hell are you talking about?\" He asked her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked at him confused. \"Did you not come here looking for someone else? And are you not upset that I was using this room.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Gods no Jasmine.\" He said after a laugh. \"If was I who told Erik to take you to one of the rooms here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh.\" She mumbled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And at that moment, her towel dropped to the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>",1009,"2026-06-06T04:22:13.101Z",1,"novelbin.me","4e218a3501791013946d492335a3695b762e40569ee78a0a1ca9fd8e771e91d8","the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-291","the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-289",728,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-cover.jpg"]