[{"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-669":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},1497121,1945,"Chapter 669: THE PREGNANCY","the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-669",669,"\u003Cp>I heard a laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A woman’s laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Warm. Soft. Familiar in a way that sent a shiver down my spine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I turned, looking around, but the forest around me was different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lighter , greener, as if touched by another world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sunlight spilled through the leaves in gold beams, and everything smelled of flowers and fresh water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The laugh echoed again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I knew that laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I shouldn’t have, but I did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My feet moved before my mind did, carrying me deeper into the forest. The sound pulled me like a thread, tugging me forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were voices now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A woman’s voice, light and musical.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A man’s voice, deeper, warm, laughing along with her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I froze behind a tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were close.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So close that if I breathed too loudly, they would hear me. I peeked out carefully, heart thundering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman was sitting by a lake, water so still it looked like glass, her feet dangling above the surface. Her hair was the first thing I noticed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Curly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wild.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vibrant red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Exactly like mine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or rather like it used to until I had become blonde.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A man lay with his head in her lap, his own hair a soft, bright blonde. He looked up at her like she had caught the sun itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn’t see his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just his blonde hair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were laughing, whispering things I couldn’t quite hear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the moment I saw her face properly\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My breath left me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The girl in my dreams running and laughing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The one who had called me my name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here I was once again with her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only this time... she wasn’t a blur.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wasn’t distant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could see the curve of her jaw.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shape of her lashes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The faint freckles across her nose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was beautiful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And she looked exactly like me, only older, softer, happier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A wave of déjà vu crashed over me so hard my knees trembled. This didn’t feel like a dream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This felt like a memory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone’s memory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe... mine?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lady suddenly stiffened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her head turned in my direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I gasped and ducked behind the tree so fast I scraped my elbow. My heart felt like it might burst out of my chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What’s wrong?\" I heard the man ask gently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I... I thought I felt something,\" the girl whispered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His voice shifted as if he were sitting up. \"Where?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Over there,\" she said. So close. Too close.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I pressed my hand over my mouth. My body wouldn’t move. The air felt thick, heavy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I heard him stand and take a few steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Branches shifted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leaves rustled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was looking for me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I held my breath until my lungs burned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long silence, he spoke again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There’s no one here,\" he said finally, softer this time. \"Come, love.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their voices quieted again, falling back into their soft conversation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slowly, terrified, I peeked around the tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man was back in her lap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her fingers were threaded through his blond hair, brushing it back gently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They both looked so peaceful, so perfect, as though the world outside didn’t exist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the girl began to hum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not hum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The song.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The siren song.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The exact same one I had hummed without knowing where it came from.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The one Pearl had recognized instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I froze, blood turning to ice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why was she singing that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could she know it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her voice carried softly over the water, and every hair on my body rose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then slowly, the woman lifted her head and looked up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looked right where I stood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looked at me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes widened in shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her lips parted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emotion flooded her features so quickly it broke something inside me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Jasmine?\" she whispered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The forest seemed to stop breathing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And somehow by some impossible way the word left my lips without my permission.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mum?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the blink of an eye, she was no longer by the lake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was in front of me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right in front of me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her hands cupped my face. Her curls brushed against my cheeks. Her tears fell warm on my skin before I even realized she was crying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My Jasmine,\" she whispered, voice trembling with joy and heartbreak. \"My beautiful girl.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her arms wrapped around me, and the moment she held me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I broke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t even try to fight it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I melted into her embrace, the warmth, the familiarity, the rightness of her touch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She smelled like flowers and saltwater, sunlight and home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wanted to stay there forever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have waited... my entire life...\" she sobbed softly, \"to do this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I cried harder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She pulled back just a little, her hands still on my cheeks. She studied me as if memorizing every feature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she paused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her expression changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes dropped to my stomach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her breath caught.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You...\" She swallowed, voice cracking. \"You’re with child.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My heart lurched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I opened my mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mind raced with what?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I couldn’t find a voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the world shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Darkness swallowed her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The forest tore apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I gasped awake, screaming choking on air as the fire beside me crackled quietly, the dawn light peeking through the trees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Jasmine!\" Otto rushed to my side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He came by and held me while I tried to breathe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you okay?\" He asked me. \"Did something happen to you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could barely find my voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then I turned and said. \"I think I saw my mother.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stared at me blankly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I swallowed hard, trying to decipher my dream as I pressed my fingers to my temples in anxiety.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I thought your mum died while giving birth to you?\" He asked me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I nodded. \"Exactly. But when I saw her. Something just..... I don’t know. I called her my mother without even thinking twice. I’ve been dreaming about her for a while now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He went quiet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then I remembered the last thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wrapped my hands around my tummy and looked up at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She told me I’m pregnant.\" I said with a choked whisper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at me, his eyes not surprised and then I knew instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Knew that he knew.\u003C\u002Fp>",1023,"2026-06-06T04:22:25.635Z",1,"novelbin.me","e2dec38b98119aec6d250ee8501879d3400d794017abcf719c750ceaccf4b115","the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-670","the-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-chapter-668",728,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-alpha-s-unwanted-bride-cover.jpg"]