[{"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-46":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},1496470,1945,"Chapter 46: DUTIES","the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-46",46,"\u003Cp>Once I got into the healer’s quarters, the guard who had accompanied me stood at attention and said,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alpha Xaden has requested that she reside with you from now on.\" He said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Loren looked at me through his glasses. I half expected him to grumble at how I disturbed his peace, but he said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright.\" And then he went back to his work. The guard nodded and turned away, closing the door behind me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Loren resumed his mixing of potions and reading his books while I just stood by the door, unsure of what to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he looked back up at me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you waiting for?\" He asked me. \"An invitation?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I jumped up. \"Oh no, uhmm no.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then come on in.\" He invited. \"Go down that door; you will find a small room with a bed. Take it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And after that, he returned to the work before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank you,\" I said quietly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t make any comment on my disgruntled appearance or what had happened—that I was being brought into the room late at night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He just went back to his work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t see the need to disturb him, so I walked on ahead to the room that he had pointed to, and then I walked in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a small bed in it, and then I just lay curled up in it and willed myself to sleep, but I couldn’t.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I sobbed silently so as not to disturb him, and I wondered what the point of my life was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one, not one single person, acknowledged me or cared about me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was a nobody in the eyes of these people, the same way I had been back home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eventually, I fell asleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I woke up the following day before it was even breaking dawn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was extremely dark, but I knew that it was already morning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I slowly got up from the bed and found a mirror facing me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My lip was swollen, and my head was bruised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I were a shifted wolf, then I would have healed by now, but here I was with proof of what had happened to me the previous night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I arranged the bed and stepped out of the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Loren was asleep on a bench.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a makeshift pillow under his head, and he had no blanket over his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I turned back to the room that I had come out of and saw tiny personal things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, it dawned on me that I had slept in his room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked around the living space, which was filled with his desk and work table, along with his potions and a small couch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no other door to show that there was another room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I felt awful that he had given up his bedroom for me and even slept outside in the cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was rare for someone to extend such kindness to me—especially an older man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I quietly swept the entire room and arranged it to what I felt was neat enough, and then I picked up the blanket from the bedroom and put it over his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I walked out of the room and went about my chores.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The paper that was filled with my duty schedule was folded in my dress, and I still had no idea how I was going to read through it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I decided to do the chores that I had been given the previous day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ll find a way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I worked in the kitchen, scrubbing pots and washing the dishes. The chef came in and let me in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was shocked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you doing here?\" He asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My duties,\" I explained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He just stared at me vaguely and went on to start his cooking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chefs in packs were always the first to begin the day’s work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I knew he was stunned to see that I had even arrived before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned to his work and ignored me, and then I left the kitchen as soon as I was done.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I scrubbed the floors and mopped them clean, and then I went to the boiling rooms to set water for the baths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as I saw the girls who were going to be the ones carrying the water come in, I left and went down to the farm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I began the planting and seeding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once it was daybreak, I was already done.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I bumped into the woman who gave instructions on work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where are you going, missy?\" She sneered at me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, I was just going up to have my breakfast,\" I told her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You haven’t even begun your work, and you want to eat?\" She asked me. \"Have you even had your bath?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I swallowed. \"I’m done with my work.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes widened in disbelief. \"So you’re a liar too, and just as bad as they say you are.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I chewed my fingertips in anxiety. \"I’m not lying, ma’am.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re trying to take me for a fool, right? You think I don’t inspect the works, huh?\" She demanded, and then she jacked my dress and dragged me down the hall to the kitchen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where is it done?!\" She demanded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chef looked at her and me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She said she did her work? Have you seen her here?\" She asked him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I expected the chef to say that I hadn’t done anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he quietly said. \"I don’t know about her other jobs, but she is done with this one.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her mouth dropped in shock, and she closed it back and then turned to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re lucky about this one.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She took me to all the places where I had done my chores, and her face was written in disbelief when she discovered that I had indeed finished them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Please, may I go now, ma?\" I asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was speechless, and then she said. \"Uhmm... y-yes, you can go.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I nodded and went off to Loren’s quarters to have my breakfast while she stood dumbstruck.\u003C\u002Fp>",1001,"2026-06-06T04:22:12.730Z",1,"novelbin.me","22dcc646ac1b64a1b4ae72795281493f2f1427704a2a60e9fd14fffdf30da620","the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-47","the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-45",728,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-cover.jpg"]