The Alpha’s Unwanted Bride

He rose a brow.

"A what?" He asked her.

"An imposter." Aurora said.

He sighed and leaned back down at the desk and folded his arms.

"Jasmine is an imposter." He said with such sarcasm ringing in his word. "And where did you get all this information from?"

"Alexander." She said.

He looked at her in disbelief. "Alexander told you that Jasmine was an imposter and you believed him."

"It wasn't from Alexander." She explained. "Well at least not from him directly. Look I had some one investigate Jasmine and then I-

"Investigate her?" He said further sounding surprised with sarcasm. "What are you investigating her for exactly?"

"Look Jasmine isn't who you think she is." She said. "That's what you need to know. I hired some people to investigate the Moonlight pack and they weren't able to give me what I wanted except they redirected me to someone else who actually knows what happened."

"Alexander knows what happened. And it's because his brother Dean was the one who was supposed to marry her. He knows them before hand. We didn't know much. And if anyone would know the truth it's Alexander."

Xaden just stirred at her. "I've had no cause to investigate Jasmine. She is an unshifted wolf, and she can't transmit or send information to anyone."

"Xaden we didn't carry out her screening. We didn't check if she is truly an unshifted wolf or not." Aurora argued. "You were supposed to, we did do that for every slave we have and you said we were going to, but for whatever reasons we didn't."

He frowned and pushed himself back from the desk and turned around to the table and stared to roll up the scrolls.

"Because she is. And if you haven't noticed, I've been busy with a lot of things in my arms." He informed her.

"With all dire respect my lord, it seems you have lost your direction." She said. "You don't have focus anymore. I came back and I heard that you had taken out an eye and hand of Alexander on the behalf of Jasmine? Who the hell is she? You're trying to convince me that there isn't anything more going on between the both of you."

He looked at her puzzled. "For you to believe that someone or something is amiss between us then you are the one who has lost your direction."

"You aren't acting that way. At least not to me or any of your men. You give her validation. You've saved her and stood on her behalf times without number. You even took out the hand of another Alpha for her!" Aurora said. "Now tell me if that is normal."

"You already know that Alexander and my altercation was inevitable." He said. "It was going to happen one way or the other and well moreover, since you've been exiled, you missed him sending an assassin to kill me."

She sighed and shook her head. "I heard and if you really didn't lose your focus you would know that Alexander would never send an assassin to kill you. He wants to do it himself. It was not him. You have the wrong man in a cell."

"That's not up to you to decide." Xaden said as he pushed the scrolls inside a drawer and locked it.

He shoved the keys inside his pocket.

"Then I ask that you give me a chance for you to hear me out." She told him. "All I ask from you is a few minutes my lord. A few minutes."

He stopped short.

"If I do as you ask, then will you let me be?"

He asked her.

"Yes." She nodded.

She couldn't let this get out of hand.

He sighed. "Fine. Well we have a few minutes before Alexander's execution."

She sighed a sigh of relief as he returned all the scrolls into the drawers and then started to walk ahead.

"What really makes you think I will be interested in what Alexander has to say." He told her.

She shrugged. "Because he doesn't have anything to lose."

"And you belive him?" He asked as they made a turn and took the steps. "Aurora Alexander is my enemy. He isn't going to just tell me the truth."

"Well we have to hear it don't you? I just want you to hear it." She said to him.

He stopped in his tracks. "Why didn't he just tell you and get it over with?"

She shrugged. "I have no idea. He just told me to get you."

He sighed and then he walked on ahead. "I hope this is not a waste of my time."

She said nothing to that last statement and went on ahead behind him.

As they walked down to the dungeon, Xaden stopped short and then he held his hand prohibiting Aurora from moving any further.

"What?" She asked him. "What's wrong?"

He took in a deep breath and then he rushed in without saying a Word.

The guards at the gates of the dungeon were dead.

"What happened?" She asked shocked.

And then they went past the three spots that held each set of guards.

They were all lying dead on the floor.

Aurora looked on in shock. "How did this happen?"

The guards who watched over the dungeons were the strongest men in the pack.

How could they have been killed so easily and without even sounding an alarm.

Xaden rushed up to the cell and stoped short at the bars, then he flung it open.

"Xaden what has-

She stopped short when she saw it.

Alexander was not missing rather he was inside the cell, where he was supposed to be.

Except he was lying down dead.

"Oh my God." She said.

She could not believe this.

She had just come back from the cell.

He had been fine.

"B-but he w-was here when I came. He was fine." She said.

Xaden looked over the body and saw where his throat had been slit open.

"Ring the bell! Shut down the entire castle!" Xaden shouted