[{"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-628":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},1497052,1945,"Chapter 628: THE GREAT EPIPHANY","the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-628",628,"\u003Cp>The next morning, I was seated up, my knees drawn up to my chest as I gently touched the golden leaf on the bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was still hard for me to believe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had had a dream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, what felt more than a dream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Felt like a memory from a life I couldn’t recall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Running through forests laughing with a man who seemed so familiar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A man I couldn’t see, yet somehow knew I had a romantic connection to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I woke up before I could see his face and was stunned to find the golden leaf of the same tree I had climbed in my dream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Proof that I hadn’t just been dreaming?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That something was happening to me\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was getting memories of things I couldn’t recall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A life I knew I had never lived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All through the night, I had remained awake, staring at the leaf.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was almost in the shape of an apple and had veins protruding through its body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Golden, just like the leaf itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Except it was firmer than the body of the leaf.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked at it, bored, until it began to get weary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why in the name of the goddess did I wake up with a golden leaf in my hand when I had never been around anyone my entire life?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xaden’s mother’s journal, which Otto had given me the night before, was beside the leaf.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had spent the entire night reading through it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Trying to find anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something to make sense of the constellation and the newly found map.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still baffled me that she had known my father’s brother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that he, too, had been interested in astrology.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I signed to myself as I flipped through pages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Trying to see if I had missed anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The last mention she had made of him was when she stated. \"His interest in astronomy has assisted in the questions I have asked and-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It just ended there by the end of the page.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next page of the book began a different day entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was though she had forgotten what she was speaking on and just moved on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Made no sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was stuck in my thoughts, and I had no idea when Hildegard woke up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Jasmine!\" She said aloud, and I jumped in fright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I gasped, my hand already clutching my chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good heavens, I didn’t mean to scare you.\" Hildegard apologized sympathetically. \"It’s just that I had been calling your name for a while now. And you seemed lost in thought.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had been calling my name? I had barely even heard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I rubbed my forehead and apologized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m so sorry,\" I said. \"I had no idea.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s already daybreak.\" She said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked back at the curtains that had traces of sunlight demanding to be let in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had no idea when that had even happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I rubbed my eyes and yawned whilst stretching my already bent body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Jasmine, darling,\" Hildegard said as she tied her hair into a ponytail. \"If you keep your back bent that way, you’re going to get older than me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I chuckled at her joke, and the older woman joined in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For some reason, I was getting much closer to women older than I was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, I rarely even had friends who were my age.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From Urma, to Eleanor, to Nanny Nia, and now to Hildegard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the four women, I had lost two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One to death and the other to a cruel fate orchestrated by someone else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was glad not to have ever seen Eleanor’s head decapitated and kept on a spike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I doubt I would have ever recovered from it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Either way, I was grateful for the wisdom and friendship they shared with me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I had no idea it was already daybreak,\" I mumbled as I leaned my back against the headboard of the bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She got out of bed and stretched. \"We get that a lot from guests here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What do you mean?\" I raised a brow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well, it’s a different Time zone here.\" She pointed out. \"The sun hits differently here. We are two hours ahead of everyone else. So the moon and constellations are even different here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I paused at that phrase.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hair on my back instantly rose as I stiffened. \"What did you say?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked at me, confused as she was now checking through her wardrobe for a new cloth to wear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"About?\" She said as she turned back to her clothes. \"Now, which color do I wear today? Green or brown.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She sighed as she held the two dresses, trying to decide which was better.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I jumped out of bed and raced to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Trying to grasp and understand the gravity of what she was saying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My brain was working faster than my mind was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hildegard, could you please rephrase what you said?\" I pleaded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My heart was beating fast, and I felt as though I was about to have an epiphany.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"About the dress?\" She asked. \"Was wondering which color would suit me more?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, not that.\" I shook my head quickly. \"I mean, your dress is essential, but you said something about how we are in different time zones.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She nodded. \"Yes, I did. The royal pack is situated farther from everyone else than usual. It’s usually still dark in other places while it’s daytime here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I chewed my bottom lip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And you said it affects the moon, sun, and even constellations, right?\" I asked her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She nodded absent-mindedly. \"Yes, that’s what I said.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re sure of that?\" I pressed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course I am.\" She clocked her tongue. \"I grew up here, and whenever I used to visit my grandparents in the Hebron pack, at night, while we shifted and ran underneath the moonlight, I would always notice how the constellations were shaped differently here. Asked my grandma about it, and she gave a reason, but I can’t remember what it was. But I know that the way they are lined here isn’t the same as the way it is elsewhere. I mean, it’s the same thing. But then. Well, it’s just drawn in an entirely different way.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it HIT me!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The way the constellation was lined here wasn’t the same as the way it was elsewhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What I had been suspecting for a while now finally made sense from that one statement Hildegard had made.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I kissed her on her cheek, a deafening and firm one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was startled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She instantly went red and blinked in disbelief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She seemed dazed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re a genius!\" I said in ecstasy as I went back to the bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I closed the journal and started dressing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am?\" She said in confusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked as though I had left her in the middle of a forest and told her to find her way back home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When I was very sure that I was okay and good to go, I grabbed the journal under my arm and headed towards the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then I remembered the gold leaf and picked it up before putting it inside a page of my journal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, you are,\" I said, walking up to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I grabbed her cheeks with both hands and gave her cheeks all over her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The most intelligent and beautiful woman ever!\" I said happily. \"Don’t tell Nanny Nia I said that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then I raced out towards the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But Jasmine, you haven’t eaten.\" She complained. \"Nia would strangle me if I didn’t give you your herbs and take care of you. I made her a promise!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Also you haven’t even had your bath!\" she complained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And I promise you that I’ll be back. This can’t wait!\" I said as I went out the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I paused and went back into the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hildegard was still standing, dazed, holding the two dresses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And oh, it’s the green,\" I said, pointing at the beautiful green satin dress in her left hand. \"You would look absolutely splendid in it. It will match your color.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without waiting to hear a response from\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her, I ran back out of the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I raced through the hallway and went past the servants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A group of servants came by, blocking the way with a spilled bag of flour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I jumped over them and raced on my way out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was wondering why the hell I didn’t think of this in the first place?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I raced up the stairs, and what would have taken me a good fifteen minutes to reach the door took me five.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was banging at Otto’s door once I got there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"OTTO! OTTO!\" I screamed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I banged over and over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seconds after, a disgruntled-looking Otto flung the door open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What the fuck do you want?\" He hissed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I ignored him and went right under his armpit into the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I KNOW why we have been stuck in the map, unable to move,\" I said. \"We’re in different time zones.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He blinked at me. \"What?\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1500,"2026-06-06T04:22:25.014Z",1,"novelbin.me","c09f416baa43045cbb9e988a04100e4e6f60dcbfbb191503128ee3368e50be5d","the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-629","the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-627",728,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-cover.jpg"]