The Alpha’s Unwanted Bride

JASMINE'S POV

Once Jasmine had her conversation with Princess Belle, she went on her way to Loren's quarters.

Her heart was heavy and weak.

She had had more than one confrontation already with Princess Belle and then she had been avoiding it all along.

She slowly opened the door and stepped in.

She pressed her back against the door and closed her eyes in deep thought as memories of her encounter with Xaden came flooding.

What had she truly been thinking? That someone like him would want to be with her?

She was a nobody.

She had simply been day dreaming.

"Had a rough night didn't you?"

She jerked and opened her eyes to see Loren reading his book.

She hadn't even noticed him when she had stepped in.

"O-oh I didn't even know you were in." She stammered.

He laughed. "Where else would I be? I'm an old working man who doesn't have to be out during the halo festival."

She smiled weakly and stepped down from the door.

If he knew about the fact that she was the maiden, he didn't make any reference to it.

With Loren you never could know.

Neither did he ask her where she had been all night.

He simply went back to reading through his book.

"It's a good thing you're here." He said. "I'll need you to take this potion to the Queen."

He showed her the bottle of potion for

Her ailment.

The last thing Jasmine wanted to do was be in the mix of being with the Queen, the cheating king and the woman who was cheating on her with, her sister again.

Neither did she want to see Princess Belle and her mother Carol.

The entire family hated her.

All except the Queen.

"B-but Loren I don't think I should go and give her this." Jasmine said.

"Nonsense!" He said. "I have work to do. And moreover it seems the queen likes your company. You look very much like her late daughter and even princess Coral if she still had her red curls."

Then he turned and said. "Look you were right. The Lyrun is actually growing."

She gasped and then she looked at the little flower pot he indicated to her.

The Lyrun herb that she had harvested from

Inside the pond had now grown an extra tiny leaf.

She gasped as she stared at it.

"It's actually growing." She said.

He nodded with a smile. "I didn't think it would work myself. But it seems you were right."

"So this can save lives of the Lycan." She asked hopefully.

"Yes it can." He nodded. "You should rest. You look extremely tired. Your cheeks are red again. Did you go under the sun."

She quickly hid her face when it occurred to her that the place princess Belle had slapped her was revealing.

"Y-yes it was just impact from the sun." She said.

She quickly picked up the potion he had given her and ran out of the room before he asked any more questions.

As she hurried down the hallway, she saw the spy who had stopped her yesterday in the corner and she gasped.

She had completely forgotten to heed his instructions.

She had wanted to have some air after statements of her bloodline and heritage had been made by Lycan Damian.

She hurried up to him.

"I'm sorry forgive me." She said.

"You disobeyed me." He told her.

She shook her head. "No its not like that. I left, there was an attack on Xaden's life. And an investigation. I had to say or they would have suspected me."

He looked at her suspiciously. "And what? So you were also chosen as the maiden."

Her throat felt dry and to that she said nothing.

"The next time that you disobey an order from me. Or your father you will not die, no, but everyone you have met, anyone you have made contact with and take care of you or shown you genuine love will die." He said.

She froze.

Everyone?

She though of Elena, Urma, Loren, Erik, Mya.

The few rare people who had been kind to her.

Tney would all be dead because of her.

"Would you want that?" He asked her.

She hurriedly shook her head.

"I thought as much." He said.

He pulled something from his clothes and said. "Take this. It won't help you stop being an illiterate, but it would help you to transfer memories to the owl."

She collected it and examined it.

"You are to take a sip of it when you gain information that you belive would be beneficial to Alpha Bale. You would call for your owl and touch him. Then he would fly to the pack. When he is sent to you, you would feel it in your bones. Touch the owl and it would deliver the message for you." He said. "Do you understand?

Or are you too much of an illiterate to get that bit of information."

She shook her head. "No."

He glared at her. "You better meet the Owl by night. Your father has a lot of messages for you and you must obey."

She nodded and then he passed like a ghost.

She managed to finally breathe and then she composed herself.

She felt the sweat pour down her forehead.

Her father was becoming more and more demanding.

She told herself that this time she would do what was requested of her.

She knew her father and I'd he said that he would kill the people who had taken care of her, he would do it.

She hurried of to the Queen's chamber but then as she went along the hallways she heard some noises.

She wanted to go along and mind her business but then something told her to stop.

She did and then she slowly pushed the door open.

She peeped in and looked closely and she heard some grunting and sex noises.

She stretched her head forward and to her shock, she saw the King ramming inside a bent Princess Cherry