[{"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-393":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},1496517,1945,"Chapter 393: THE PROMISE","the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-393",393,"\u003Cp>Bernice wept.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I will save your family and give them protection. I give you my word as Queen Luna. Nothing will happen to them. Just tell me who it is.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bernice continued to weep. \"I swear your majesty. She is going to kill my family and everything I love. I never wanted to hurt you, but she made me do it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rose felt a chill in her bones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a woman?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now Rose was truly troubled and wanted to know who had done this .\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rose decided to try a different approach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rose picked up Bernice’s chin with her fingertips and forced her to look at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Bernice turned her face away\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Look at me Bernice.\" She said very gently and Bernice did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can understand that the person who did this has a hold on you and has made you tied to tell for whatever reason, I don’t know.\" Rose said very gently. \"I am The Queen of this Realm. All wolves bow to me, even the King is not close to how powerful I am. No one is as powerful as I am. The mages fear me. I am not someone you or your family would want as an enemy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bernice swallowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am someone you want on your side and I would protect not just your family, but you also.\" Rose informed her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bernice seemed skeptical. \"But why would you? I poisoned you all these years and you have been nothing but good to me. You are going to kill me even after all of this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Bernice continued to weep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I give you my word. I will not kill you. I swear on my crown.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rose promised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But she still will.\" Bernice said. \"If you don’t kill me she would.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What does this woman have a hold on you for?\" Rose questioned wondering what on earth would make Bernice forced to do such a thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My little girl.\" Bernice said. \"Alice. She was dying about the year before you ascended the throne. I needed help, did everything I could. Sold everything I could. My husband and I have no money, we are poor wolves and so we were forced to look for. And then she came and offered to help us. She took us to a healer. A mage healer that we would never in our entire life thought we could afford. I know that it isn’t allowed for us wolves to seek counsel from wages but your majesty I swear we had no choice. We were desperate.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And so our little girl was healed. She survived and we were so grateful. We had no money to pay and she said it was a gift from her to us.\" Bernice said. \"We accepted, thinking she was good. But then she came to me when I was chosen to become your meal taster and gave me the task to look away and never taste your meal as I had been asked to.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rose was confused. \"How did this woman know that you would be chosen to become my meal taster. It goes through a Very tight and strict process. How had she know any of this at all?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bernice swallowed. \"She is someone closer than you think. She told me she had manipulated it and made me the royal meal taster. I told her that I couldn’t do it, but she told me that if I didn’t, she was going to accuse me of treason and disobeying the laws. She was going to make sure that i and my entire family was dead. I had no choice. That was how I came to be in such a situation your majesty.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You could have come to me.\" Rose said ignorantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Bernice looked up at her, her eyes still flowing heavy tears. \"You would Shevardnadze never believed the words of a mere servant to the words of your own.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it hit Rose that was true.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There had been tensions between mages and wolves and a strict rule had been placed against not just mages, but also sirens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There had been mistrust and rule had been placed not by Rose herself but by the other high ranking members of her court.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In some cases, she couldn’t oppose laws that were about to be placed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And she hadn’t really known how much effect it would have on the people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked at Bernice who had fallen into such a trap because of the law she had let pass without any consideration for her people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guilt burned within the deepest parts of her soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had said \"over the words of her own.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This person was closer to home than she had ever expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This person was in her castle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rose was disgusted as to how someone could use Bernice’s plight as a poor wolf to their own gain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And even use their own family as leverage to make sure she did what they wanted her to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then Rose picked up the knife she had discarded earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She cut through her arm and blood flowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your majesty what are you doing?\" Bernice asked terrified.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Once you tell me who did this to you, I will keep my word to you and I will send you and your family far away from this realm. You will start new lives, no one would ever know that you and you would be safe. I swear on my crown.\" Rose promise her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bernice’s lips quivered in fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You have no fear. Now tell me.\" Rose urged her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bernice wiped her tears and sniffed as she stood before the Queen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It was your-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Rose look out!\" Came a familiar voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rose turned just In time to see her sister Cherry, standing in her night wear and throwing a blade at Bernice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To Rose’s horror the Blade went right past her and hit Bernice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nooooo!\" Rose screamed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bernice fell to the floor, the blade piercing through her heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rose fell down to the floor and tried to resuscitate Bernice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Bernice was barely alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t do this. Tell me! Tell me who she is.\" Rose pleaded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bernice’s lips mouthed, but before she could say anything, in a matter of seconds, she was already dead\u003C\u002Fp>",1042,"2026-06-06T04:22:13.102Z",1,"novelbin.me","b60088de041f2c7164b086be46e6fc2473dbae8688911918cdce65a56e11f32d","the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-394","the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-392",728,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-cover.jpg"]