[{"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-659":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},1497100,1945,"Chapter 659: ELEANOR’S RETURN","the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-659",659,"\u003Cp>Eleanor stood behind, her arms and body in stitches, her wavy dark hair messed up along her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her skin was dark and dirty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked a mess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like someone who had been under the ground for over a hundred years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you didn’t know her, you would believe she was the one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, Xaden had been in disbelief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew that face, the arms, the hand, the body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew everything about her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was the one who had raised him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His very own mother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he had seen her head decapitated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hanging by the spikes of the pack walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had done her funeral rites for her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So why was she now standing in front of him, looking as though she had been through the valley of death and returned?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was holding a silver dagger in her hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The very same thing that he could tell, she had used to stab Cherry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I told you your day of reckoning was finally going to come bitch.\" She spat at the dust on the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone just froze, unable to say a word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xaden knew that voice anywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Eleanor?\" He asked, his voice barely a whisper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She slowly turned around from the heap of dust she had been looking at and saw him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She paused as she watched him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a minute, it looked like she couldn’t believe it was him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As though she was seeing double.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Xaden?\" She said, in response, in the softest voice one could wish for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He shifted back to his human form almost as immediately as he had transformed into his wolf.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked past everyone, still dazed and transfixed by the incident that had just occurred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked up to where she stood by the throne, and he very slowly touched her dirt-stained face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mum?\" He said, his eyes filling with tears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He cupped her cheek, and she closed those beautiful brown eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was the one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was so stunned for a second that he didn’t know what to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There, he threw his arms around her and gave her a tight hug, even though she smelled and was, in fact, dirty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He held onto her so fervently it was as though he was dreaming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he were, he didn’t want to wake up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She rubbed the back of his hair and softly said in his ear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My boy.\" She said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She kissed the side of his cheek and held him closer again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You haven’t called me mum since you left me to go build your pack.\" She whispered into his ear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then guilt overcame him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He remembered how cruel he had been to her when he said he had wanted to avenge his family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the last few days before she had died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The God awful things he had told her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How nasty and hurtful he had been.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How terribly guilty he had been when he found out she was dead, wishing he could take back all the terrible things he had said and done.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xaden wept.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tears flowed down his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m sorry for all the things I said.\" He apologized amidst the hug. \"I thought I was never going to see you again.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She rubbed his back as her warmth coddled him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t want to let go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was scared that if he did, she would vanish and he would see that it was simply a figment of his imagination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you real?\" He asked, his voice breaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mask that he usually held to protect his feelings was gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He no longer needed to hide under the facade of being the incredible Alpha.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was though he had broken free and was now back to being the little boy she had raised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you real?\" He asked through the hug.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt her smile, and then she let go. \"Is this real?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And she pinched his cheek.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He made a soft ouch, and she laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I weren’t real, you wouldn’t feel that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How... how... di... how?\" He managed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She gave a tight smile. \"I can’t die, Xaden. Not in the sense you understand. I can only have my body parts severed from limb to limb and be buried.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she looked back down at the heap of dust that lay a few inches from their feathers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That bitch did that to me. I would have stayed hidden if I didn’t feel the tremors.\" She said. \"I found out about Jasmine. She must have come to the royal pack because the entire earth shook a month ago.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then Xaden remembered the night she had been so dazed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The night that she had literally fainted, the walls had shaken, the windows had shattered, and all fire had become dark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It woke me up.\" She explained. \"That was why I was able to get up and stitch my body back together. I couldn’t stop by because I had to find Jasmine. If she were in the royal pack and Cherry were here. They were going to kill her. I had to stop her.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Eleanor turned to look at everyone in the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She bowed to the King and Queen and looked around the mess. \"What the hell happened here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rose rubbed her face with her palm and seemed restless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you doing here?\" She asked him, her eyes lost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I came to avenge you and take Jasmine away.\" He announced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was an eerie silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned to the Queen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where is she?\" He asked. \"I’m here to take her away from this godforsaken place.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You have no right. She is my granddaughter.\" Rose warned him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And I’m married to her.\" He said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Jasmine is gone,\" Hildegard said. \"Have you all forgotten. She is gone and not coming back.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xaden paused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hair on the back of his neck stood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She ran away from the cells,\" Hildegard explained. \"You can hold me hostage for as long as you can, but those memories were wiped off. I don’t know where she is anymore.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1011,"2026-06-06T04:22:25.635Z",1,"novelbin.me","ffccb8ac6354285d9a3156790f69d5eb2db8fc85975a17c0bf75a94216272141","the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-718","the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-717",728,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-cover.jpg"]