[{"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-626":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},1497050,1945,"Chapter 626: SOUL SEARCHING","the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-626",626,"\u003Cp>I and the rest of my men went on their horses ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was currently dark and I was clouded by the fact I had forced my sister to her own death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was torn between being a brother and being an Alpha.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Torn between serving justice and loving his bloodline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I knew what was right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What i had to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still couldn’t shake away the fact that Anna had been so terrible to so many people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wanted to know why she had done all the things she had done.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I knew I would never get a solid answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if she did give me one, I would never be satisfied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because how the hell could she be capable of such things?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It baffled me!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mother was NEVER like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So how was my very own sister molded to be this way?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To hate and despise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the cold night breeze went past my body, I wondered if my parents would be proud of me for the decision I made.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was angry and hurt that Anna had taken away my own child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I felt betrayed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had betrayed her own blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the first time in my life since I had watched my mother die, I felt the tears at the corner of my eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was an Alpha.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wasn’t supposed to show such emotion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So I quickly swallowed and bat my eyelashes over and over just to make the tears disappear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I turned and looked at Erik wondering how he felt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was Anna’s destined mate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How did he feel that she had now been sent on a death table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because she wasn’t going to be killed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was going to be kept immortal for a thousand years of torture until she was finally killed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That meant for the rest of Erik’s life, he would still be mated to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Never be able to find another mate until she died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Erik was going to die before her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I started to think of the times Erik had been avoiding Anna.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the memory of how she had announced that they were mates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later discovering that Fiona and Erik was in love.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the entire time I had thought that Erik was in love with Jasmine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I shivered at the thought of Erik and Jasmine together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I was filled with shame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To think that I had imagined wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact most of my assumptions were always wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wanted to bury my head in shame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Erik looked at me and our eyes made contact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I quickly turned away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sighed at me and then drew his horse closer to mine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He gently nudged my shoulders. \"Hey. How are you holding up?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I gave a light nod. \"Fine.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He gave a weak smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I should be asking you that.\" I pointed out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He gave a light shrug and said nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We hadn’t said a word to each other throughout the journey back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I heard an owl hoot in the night sky and looked back up at the full moon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re never going to have a mate again.\" I pointed out to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He held the reins to his horse firmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ve made peace with that.\" He said. \"It’s better not having a mate than ever being with Anna.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I felt as though I had been stabbed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had sentenced her to death but she was still my sister.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sorry about that.\" Erik added silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I rose a brow to acknowledge it was fine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But you know something?\" Erik asked me. \"Anna. I knew all the things that she had done. Things she was capable to do. And I wonder sometimes if she could have ever changed. If she could have been different. Was it because of how she was raised? Or was it a flaw to her system? I don’t know. But I’ll like to believe that she could have changed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked down at my hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The few months we had had together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had shattered it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Destroyed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything she had shown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything she had done to me, was all a lie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had murdered not just members of my pack. But hers too. Our parents. She desecrated everything our parents had built.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her and that godforsaken Uther who had tried to take over my pack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All under the guise of being a helpful person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When this entire time he wanted my name for himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My fists clenched in rage. \"No. There was no changing. She was a monster. And she would die a monster.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then after that I gripped the reigns of my horse and rode off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once we were hours away from the pack, I halted at a lake I was familiar with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The encourage stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I came down from the horse and Erik did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was only Erik who had ever come out here with me before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Stay here.\" i said to my men. \"I would return.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I started to head towards the lake when my men grumbled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We can’t let you go just like that.\" They argued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m fine.\" I said. \"I just need to see someone in private.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No Alpha. Considering all the terrible things that have happened we can’t trust you to go off on your own.\" One Beta said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was about shout an order and when I looked into under eyes I instantly knew what they were thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They believed I was going to take my life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn’t trust that after what I had went through I would still want to stay alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And to be fair they did have a point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had considered it but suicide was a coward’s way out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They only cared about me and there was no harm in doing that\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I sighed heavily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fine.\" I said and grabbed Erik’s arm. \"Erik here will come with me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They whispered amongst themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If anything happens. If after two hours I don’t return then you can come looking for us agreed?\" I asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They seemed reluctant but eventually nodded their heads.\u003C\u002Fp>",1011,"2026-06-06T04:22:25.014Z",1,"novelbin.me","fa218a13a1807c405c00d2e76f7d4c603d8d88e1cf9677b9be3cd489b5c24835","the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-627","the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-625",728,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-cover.jpg"]